I just did my annual clean up of the roadside ditches between our property and the nearest intersection, approx. 1/3 mile. Filled the bed of our little Polaris Ranger about 2/3 full of trash, the majority of which is fast food trash, and beer & soda containers. Happy to report that country road drinking appears to be alive and well.
I road walk nearly every day and get sick of looking at it.
Side tracking a bit but everyone wants to talk about doing good things for the environment like getting us all on electric cars and closing all the coal power plants. Those are huge, big ticket items that will inconvenience millions. Why not pick the low hanging environmental fruit such as:
1. If you eat indoors at a restaurant of any type, your food is served on re-usable, washable dinnerware, cups, utensils, etc.
2. Outlaw all of the plastic and paper liquid containers and package that stuff in aluminum or steel containers. These are the only materials that will actually have value to be recycled.
3. More returnable / reusable containers.