I found this stuffed animal mass grave from a memorial to the guy that drowned last year. While I think its s great idea to have a memorial there should be a requirement to clean it up when its decaying. Imagine if there was this much gargage around for every person that died.
(e:libertad) and I discussed the rocks and how people put them there. I still can't really imagine how they pile them up.
I wish I could compost all my vegetable/kitchen scrap. I found that my brother has this nifty composting service that comes to the farmer's market at Union Square, where people bring their weekly kitchen scrap and they take them away for composting. In a city with a dearth of personal land, it's a brilliant idea. :::link:::
We should have that in Buffalo.
Why can't people plant trees and clean up as a memorial tribute? Some cultures believe that the spirit of the living enter everlasting trees and perennials when the mortal body dies.
I disagree, I am not sure memorials are such great ideas... It's hard to justify throwing synthetic fabric and plastic and kill living species and plantlife for someone who has already died. I thinks memorials, like every other thing, lose their meaning when they degrade into crappy commercial hallmark card-like polluting gestures.
I really thought that we should have thrown those stuffed animals away during the clean up but everyone thought we should leave them because they are a memorial. All that stuffing is going to get into the waterways now.
I'm really disgusted with people and their trash. People's apathy and disregard is so widespread that it becomes very disgouraging to me. It's hard to want to continue to clean up when almost immediately fisherman and other people just throw their crap all over the place.