Campbell River Man Urges The Community To Properly Discard Trash.

Campbell River's Ron Ritchey spent his Earth Day removing nearly 2.5 large bags of trash from an ecologically sensitive area of Campbell River, and he’s hoping people start to think twice about how they discard their trash.

Campbell River's Ron Ritchey spent his Earth Day removing nearly 2.5 large bags of trash from an ecologically sensitive area of Campbell River, and he’s hoping people start to think twice about how they discard their trash.

Ritchey and his wife started picking up trash at about 8 a.m. on Friday, and by the afternoon had amassed almost three large bags of litter.

“It’s very frustrating how much garbage we picked up over the areas that we covered,” Ritchey said. “From the (Tyee) Spit to Haig Brown to the environmentally sensitive area behind Canadian Tire… and then to the hydro bridge trail there. We got 2.5 full huge garbage bags full.”

“Even if (people) don’t participate in Earth Day or clean ups or anything, they can just participate in not throwing stuff out the window of their car, or not putting it in the back of their trucks, I don’t know what it is. Clearly some of it’s discarded,” he said. “I think its so important for people to realize what they’re doing. Some of that garbage was old and hasn’t deteriorated a bit, it’s obviously been there a few years, some of it.”

Ritchey went on to say how frustrating the process was, adding that it was depressing more than anything that people aren’t putting their trash where it belongs.