Do You Care About Our Community and Environment?

Dear Editor,

At the onset of the Pandemic, I started walking from my home several times a week. I walk up Center Street to Paradise Knoll (past Creekside Middle School), through Earl Warren Park to Crow Canyon Rd., up to Cull Canyon (past Canyon Middle School), through Cull Canyon Park and return via the same route. I noticed so much trash on this route that I also started picking up: everything plastic, cans and other trash. Plastic is especially bad for the environment, and I always picture it making its way to the Bay and ending up in the belly of a dead whale.

Yesterday, I picked up more trash than any other day for the past 3 years. At the end of my walk, I had a bag full of plastic bottles, cans, and other assorted trash. I sense that this increase may be due to the opening of the school year.

If you care about our community and the environment, please practice, and reinforce with your families the proper disposal of all trash. It doesn’t belong on our streets.

–Carolyn Darcey Castro Valley