Commissioners Urge Public to Help Keep Roadsides Clean

BY GENA HUFF, Editor

With the People Against a Littered State (PALS) campaign recently over, the public eye and attention may have tried to turn away from an issue that causes the Pickens County Commissioners and their constituents to cringe. It doesn’t take a PALS campaign for unfortunate eyes to be drawn to littered roadsides, debris-flaked ditches, and trash-infested intersections peppering otherwise scenic highways. Unless the public takes action, either by reporting litterers, cleaning up areas around them, or even by keeping trash in the car or truck until reaching a proper place to throw it away, litter will continue to mar Pickens County roadsides.
“I want to urge the public again,” said District 3 Commissioner Drew Elmore at the May 22 meeting. “I know in District 3 trash has gotten horrendous. And I guess a lot of it is because we’re spreading a lot of herbicide around. Weeds on the shoulders of the roads are down to nothing and it (trash) is just out there for everybody to see. The trash just stands out like a sore thumb.”