Ugly Chickasaw Creek

Lots of metal trashing the shoreline of this "working" creek aka Chickasabogue Creek. Here is a motor half way submerged in the water.

The amount of trash floating in and accumulating along Chickasaw Creek is growing because the people trashing their community waterway obviously have no one working to keep it clean.

Eight Mile Creek is just one tributary contributing to Chickasaw Creek watershed's trash pollution.

Uliimately communities are responsible for polluting their own waterways with increasing amounts of trash and for regularly removing that trash pollution. The density of storm water trash pollution in a watershed is a direct reflection of the people living in those communities. Alabama communities are seemingly made up of a profuse amount of White trash. Black trash. Mexican trash. Asian trash. Etc.

But littering communities are not entirely to blame for waterway trash pollution. There are things going on in other States which reduce community litter by as much as 80 or so percent like drink container deposit laws. Trouble is rich bottling corporations like Coke use their money to fight bottle bill legislation. Despite the effectiveness of bottle bill laws in terms of getting roadside bottles removed and recycled, only 10 states have bottle bill laws (1). So, thank Corporate America for polluting Earth with so much plastic. 

The big bully corporations recognize the value of their empty bottles on the side of most roads as in your face where ever you walk free advertising. Beverage companies are willing to outspend environmental efforts that are trying to make single use recycleable containers too valuable to leave on the roadsides by 30 to 1 to make sure bottle bill laws do not pass. That way greedy corporations get to keep their Ugly roadside litter advertising.

My way to punish the greedy corporations responsible for polluting America and the Earth? I boycott buying drink products. Besides, the petroleum chemicals being used to make many plastic bottles are said to disrupt the endocrine system in people leading to things like obesity. All the more reason to avoid buying drinks in plastic bottles. 

(1) http://m.industryweek.com/regulations/why-are-there-so-few-states-bottle-bill-laws