Two members of the Friends of Lake Superior Park volunteered their time on May 24 to pick up litter along Highway 17, near the Agawa Bay campground. The Friends have an agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Transportation to pick up litter along a 3 km section of the Trans-Canada Highway. The volunteers cleaned up an extra .7 km of the highway for a total of 3.7 km.
They sorted the litter into 4 categories: recyclable plastics; recyclable aluminum cans; cans and bottles that can be returned for a refund; and garbage (there is no market for glass, so it was included in the garbage).
At the end of the day there was 2 very large bags of plastics; a half bag of pop cans; a half bag of beer cans and bottles; and 5 and half bags of garbage. They picked up 72 beer cans and 11 beer bottles (refund of $8.30). We hope that it was the passengers that were drinking beer and not the drivers.
Plastic beverage bottles were the most common type of garbage, followed by paper coffee cups and pop cans.
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