No Excuse for Single Use

No Excuse for Single Use
Today I had the opportunity to clean-up (for the second time in two weeks) a settling pond in my neighborhood where a small stream empties and collects its contents, before it flows beneath a roadway culvert. The stream (Beaver Dam Brook) is not more than 2 - 3 miles in length. It drains some of our most highly developed areas in Framingham and Natick (Metrowest, Massachusetts, USA, for my buddies in the Two Hands Project )(i.e., lots of driveways, roads, parking lots, etc). Every time we experience a > than 1" rain storm, it sends a new "load," and we get a little over 42" a year here in Massachusetts. Like clockwork. Check out its "offerings." 
Come on America, get a grip. This is one small tributary to our Lake Cochituate system, which then empties into the Sudbury and Merrimack Rivers on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. Look what ends up all over our woodlands, rivers and ultimately in the ocean. Imagine this taking place in a few billion locations all over the earth. Get the idea. 
Let's back off all the single use plastic and other containers. 
I used a roof rake and trash nabber to pick up about 4 bags full of junk, most of it floatable plastic bottles, nips, lots of Gatorade, Poland Spring, Beer, Vodka, etc. 
We can do better. --pat