I moved back to Kingman AZ in 2003 and was mortified to discover that there are no “pick up at your home” recycle programs that this antiquated, backward thinking town has in place. Our local city council, planning and zoning, and board of supervisors have at least understood that a lot of the land around here needs to be cleaned up. There are thousands of properties around here that have junk cars, thrown out washing machines, abandoned mobile homes, junk, junk and more junk. But the milk jugs, plastic bags, glass jars, most of the stuff that people around here throw into their trash cans that go to the landfill (a sight for sore eyes in and of itself) have no where else to go. There is a place that you can take aluminum cans, yet they won’t accept cat food cans or lids. That disturbs me and I want to do something about it.

People don’t have a lot of resources around here, we have a major “crack head” problem (they don’t care about anything but the next fix). Go out on a dirt road and find a decent place to camp and it’s FILTHY, littered with trash of all kinds. Awareness NEEDS to be raised in this town and the surrounding areas that our planet, our lands, our wildlife are valuable and all should be respected. What suggestions do you have for getting this town to be a little more progressive?

Sincerely disgusted,

Debbie