Volunteers Clean-Up Litter at Swift Creek

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For the Autauga County PALS-People Against a Littered State and their partners, its a once a year clean-up. But they are making sure nothing is left behind at Swift Creek.

Barbara Wyatt is one of many volunteers tagging along on Swift Creek cleaning up what others have left behind.

I’m a river rat of over forty years and I really hate seeing people throw trash out and mess up our rivers and our woods and its not good for anybody whether you’re on the river or the woods.”

For Wyatt and the Autauga County PALS-a group dedicated to getting rid of litter, it is a natural instinct to get rid of the unnatural around Swift Creek, that includes, plastic, glass, and paper items.

“I was brought up on a farm we didn’t leave trash laying around. It was either recycled or burnt or disposed of.”

“we began in swift creek and each we will continue into the Alabama River and clean-up as a partnership and hopefully others will join us,” says John-Paul O’Driscoll of the Autaga County PALS.

Making their way through several areas along the creek, volunteers rounded up over a thousand pounds of trash Saturday.

“I believe in keeping things clean and neat.

The plastic picked up from Saturday’s clean-up will be recycled and the glass will be sent to a landfill.