America's unsung heroes: An intrepid group sets out to clear Kentucky’s ‘conveyor belt of trash’

“Already the roadsides that people worked so hard to clean up have sprouted a new crop of trash,” he wrote in a local newspaper. “I’m not sure whether I’m more angry with the litterers or the legislators.”

As someone that regularly picks up litter from my local park just to watch it pile right back up within a few days, I really feel this in my bones.