Selected events from 2024

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We made several trips out in December to scout new locations.  We did some cleanup at some of them, but the main purpose was to determine locations appropriate to bring different groups to in the future.  We found some places with enough trash to support a very large group cleanup.  We might have to rent a trailer or a dumpster when we clean some of these places!

We participated in a Cache-In Trash-Out event at White Rock Lake.  The participation was great, which was good, because so was the amount of trash.  We found a few interesting items, like this skull.

Clean creek bed equals filthy creek bed minus all the plastic!

Dozens of candy wrappers and water bottles and a few costume accessories... and an earbud and its charging case.  The earbud was about 5 feet from the charging case. The second earbud could not be found... probably was in the ear of the person that dropped the rest.

We found some woods with trails that are accessible from the Bluebonnet trail near Rowlett Creek and highway 75.   We filled the pickup bed there on both Nov 9 and Nov 16.

Fishing and detrashing the creek, as usual!

Not an official ACL event, but we cleaned up our camp site and tried a little magnet fishing on the pier.

There is always tons of trash here.  This would be a good spot for a future large group event!

I participated in the Hell's Gate underwater cleanup put on by Inland Diver's Association.  It was a blast! It was quite an operation too! 28 divers, a bunch of surface support crew on 8 boats.  I never saw the full pile of trash since I was underwater, but I heard we filled the trash barge!  My buddy and I filled 9 onion sacks with trash from the bottom of the lake - mostly beer cans, but some plastic and glass, too.

10  bags of trash removed from the shoreline.  It's a pretty small pond, so you know it was a mess!  Caught some bass and bluegill as well!

Didn't stay long but picked up a few bags of trash and caught some small fish.

Took the kids and the kayaks and removed some trash we couldn't reach from the shore.

Videos coming soon.

We visited Mustang Creek four Saturdays in a row, which was a feat with our summer travel schedule.  We removed multiple bags of litter on each trip.

Steve and I removed over 250 pounds of trash from the Northbound service road ditch just north of Legacy.

Fishing and picking up lots of trash at our favorite creek.  

Full adventure:

https://youtu.be/nCrIFnEj6bQ

Shorts:

https://youtube.com/shorts/IDlXixnjGHs?feature=share

So. Much. Styrofoam.

https://youtube.com/shorts/fXxomXRzzeY?feature=share

Did you know there is a huge sycamore tree accessible by a lovely, mostly shaded, 9 mile hike right here in the metroplex.  We hiked 4.5 miles to the tree, picked up about 15 pounds of trash around the tree, and packed it out the 4.5 miles back to the truck.  Wanna go? Let me know!

Several bags of litter plus cleaning up some illegal dumping of a mattress, a sofa, and a truck tire all led to our biggest single load yet at 238 pounds.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bllfXGbqEkQ?feature=share

We really do find the strangest things.  Caught fish and picked up 14.6 pounds of trash at one of our favorite spots. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/QstuaIrYX1o?feature=share

We really do find the strangest things.  Caught fish and picked up 14.6 pounds of trash at one of our favorite spots. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/iI0icIgARn8?feature=share

https://youtube.com/shorts/WsZBg7E59qA?feature=share

Selfie pulling a bike trailer loaded with trash after several of us cleaned up along Bluebonnet Trail where it crosses highway 75 between Allen and Plano.

Three of us removed over 180 pounds of trash from this popular fishing area (and unfortunately popular illegal dumping area)

I spent a little time in a creek (more like a drainage ditch) next to Rocketship Park.  Picked up a few bags of trash and did my first microfishing and caught a new best smallest fish ever.

Found the business end of a shovel along with other trash along the road during a quarterly Adopt-a-highway cleanup.

Cleaning in our favorite place, Mustang Creek, and found lots of ballas as usual, so I had to juggle four of them.

https://youtube.com/shorts/jDNUxxLTP1E?feature=share

We picked up 30 pounds of trash on the second Annual "Resolution Walk" the morning of January 2.

Grossest find of the day:  https://youtube.com/shorts/ycZGfSTFDE4?feature=share

Big haul of 91 pounds of trash off the bike path between the creek and the shopping center near highway 75.

https://youtube.com/shorts/7s6ToPuuDiU?feature=share

Biggest ever single event trash collection of 167 pounds from the area around Rowlett Creek and the northbound service road of highway 75 in Allen.  This filled the bed of my truck and triggered an immediate trip to the transfer station.

short summary: 

https://youtu.be/wGdidwVikXw

Even shorter summary: https://youtube.com/shorts/MY8kr-KHqls?feature=share