A team of Minnow Lake Lions Club members were seen along Bancroft Drive wearing reflective vests, lining the road with garbage bags full of garbage.
“This stretch here is really bad,” volunteer Keith Argent told Sudbury.com during a brief break from picking up garbage.
A lot of McDonald’s wrappers, fellow member Bruce Kutchaw added.
“It’s a lot of household garbage as opposed to litter,” he said. “Like a milk bag. We’re not all going to Timmy’s to get a milk bag.”
This year has been the worst spring yet when it comes to garbage the two-kilometre stretch of Bancroft Drive the local service club handles, he said, adding a public call-out for people to “Keep your litter in your car.”
The club’s members pick up garbage along Bancroft Drive every spring and autumn.
“We like to give back to the community,” he said. “The model is that we serve, and this is something we can get our hands into and do something.”
The club is one of several that partners with the City of Greater Sudbury’s Adopt-a-Road program, wherein groups adopt two-kilometre stretches of road and commit to picking up litter twice per year.
For more information on the program, including registration forms, click here.
Tyler Clarke covers city hall and political affairs for Sudbury.com.