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Hey friends, it's Simon from Lake Hub
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Today we're talking trash. It's the Great American Cleanup. It's springtime. It's time for spring cleaning and that includes our public spaces, especially around our lakes, right
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So I'm around one of my favorite local lakes around my house and this is my land, this
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is your land, and this is not okay and we're going to do something about it
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So I'm out here with the Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup
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Now every year, let's say in a normal year, in the before times, pre-COVID, right
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There would be hundreds of volunteers out here and it would be one day, one Saturday
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in springtime, usually in March in my area at least, where everybody rallies together
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We all meet up and we all hit the trail and it's a cool event to everybody participate together
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You know, you spend half a day outside just picking up trash and it's pretty cool to be
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part of that, right? And we're just loading and you can see it. You can just see thousands of pounds of trash getting removed from public spaces, which
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is cool. But this year and last year, that didn't happen. So what they did was they went remote, right
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At least the chapters in my area went remote and independent. So they still supply to everybody but, you know, you have time slots and you do it by
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yourself or you do it with a small group of friends and family and it just doesn't have
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the same rally spirit. But that got me thinking of a different way, a different mentality for cleaning up our
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public spaces. What if every single time, every single one of us went out to the lake, we went fishing
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we went on a trail walk, we went on a hike, mountain bike ride
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What if every single time we just took a grocery sack and packed up more trash than we brought in
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Just one sack full. What if millions and millions of people jumped on board with that
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Now we're mobilizing everybody who's enjoying the public spaces. It's not that much work
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I pack trash bags and grocery sacks with me anyway, just because they're handy
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So if you make a habit out of it and we just pack out one bag at a time, now we're fighting
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millions of pounds with millions of pounds and we don't end up with that
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That's some traction. So again, I'm Simon. I'm with Lake Hub and we are sharing the joy of lake life
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That includes everything that has to do with lakes, being on the lakes, in and around the
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lakes and we just love our lakes and we want to take care of them
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So if you're on board with that, subscribe because we've got tons of fun stuff coming
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at you. Next steps. Are you in? Are you with me? Come on now
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Let's all ride together. This is our land, right? Let's take ownership of it
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This is the people's land. We don't need agencies telling us to do this stuff
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It's up to you. It's up to me. So let's do it. Commit
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Stand with me. Show your kids. You know, teach the next generation how important this is
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It's really not that hard. It's super simple. So all it takes is you saying yes
