Chris Campbell, 13, and Paul Maxon, 11, both of St. John fill another trash bag with bottles as they volunteer some spare time to clean up the hedge row bordering the north side of NW 40th Street. The boys are taking the bottles to Great Bend to be recycled and collect some cash, but according to Chris that wasn’t their only motivation for the project.
“It was pretty nasty with all the trash, and we had some time to kill so we just started pulling some of the stuff out of the bushes,” he said. We started finding all the glass bottles and decided to take them to a recycle place."
While the junior pickers are taking out some of the recyclable trash, they hoped some adults with trucks will pitch in to help clean up the larger items.
The road bordering the north side of St. John is a notorious dumping sight. The hedge is on the St. John township side of the road.
