Sherry Greene-Starr lives about 100 feet from the railroad tracks in West Barnstable. She’s always taken walks along the tracks, but during the pandemic she’s strolled the route more frequently.
The tracks have been strewn with trash for years, she said, but recently she’s noticed more litter than usual.
“There’s just garbage everywhere,” said Greene-Starr, who is married to Barnstable Town Councilor Gordon Starr of Precinct 1.
Precinct 11 Councilor Kristine Clark also noticed litter piling up along the route taken by a Mass Coastal Railroad train that carries the Cape’s trash from the waste transfer station in Yarmouth to SEMASS, a waste-to-energy facility in Rochester.