More often than not when I go by Helen Wood Park or Arlington Park or any of the fishing spots in Mobile there is trash on the ground next to inferior City or State garbage receptacles.
Inferior meaning there is no lid on the garbage can or there is a large opening. Open garbage cans are feeding zones for cats, sea gulls, crows, pelicans and other smart animal scavengers that spread garbage can trash to the ground.
While on vacation I took note of what type of garbage cans were used elsewhere. More often than not other parks in other cities in the north used garbage cans with lids on them and there was no loose trash on the ground.
Mobile is a couple decades behind when it comes to trash receptacles and recycling. The consequence is Mobile is one of the most littered cities I have ever been in.
The City is overwhelmed with trash and litter complaints. Mobile's parks are usually littered.
Mobile's waterways are so polluted with litter and trash and ignored that it is now taking lawsuits and fines to get Mobile leaders to deal with the waterway trash pollution problem.
Every city has assholes who litter and cities in Michigan are no exception. Single use disposable beverage containers make up about 90 percent of roadside litter.
The difference between a clean Michigan city and a littered Alabama city is the amount of incentive people have to recycle their beverage containers. Empty drink containers in Alabama have no value so the roadsides and ditches fill up with trash.
The type of garbage receptacles a community uses can mean the difference between a constantly littered Park and a mostly litter free Park.
Welcome to Mobile Alabama aka Hicktown USA. Mobile is the trash hole of America. Mobile is where the City parks still use litter promoting inferior garbage receptacles with no lid.
With no recycle laws there is no incentive for the citizens and businesses of Mobile to remove the trash from the community's drainage ditches and creeks. So Mobile taxpayers sit back and do nothing while their tax dollars get wasted on environmental pollution fines. That is funny.
Not to worry. State and City leaders that cannot control something as simple as disposal of its citizen's drink containers likely cannot control its budget either. Oops, Alabama is already struggling to pay its bills. The population of Mobile keeps going down due to the exodus of people getting away from the trashy blighted dump of a City.