Picking up garbage has nothing to do with helping the environment. It's just an aesthetic preference.

Garbage is not bad for the environment.

This seems to be a common misconception.

Like in Wal-E, the movie, the whole earth is ruined by littering.

Littering is not bad for mother earth.

It's ugly. I don't like seeing chip bags,

but I also don't like seeing a banana peel on the road. Banana peel is perfectly good.

No, the chip bags were scab because it takes a long time to break down.

100 years. Banana's gone in no time.

So the bag came from the ground. The bag is an oil byproduct.

Where do you think bags come from, another planet?

No, but if it gets really bad, it can go into the water table.

Ooh, plastic might get into the water table.

That's bad because plastics made of poison.

That's why when you lick a plastic bag, you die.

I remember I was upstate once and this guy, I think his name's Nathan Fox.

He's kind of a celebrity in this tiny town.

I had a place in Berryville, New York and he wrote for the local newspaper and it was like,

the Nathan reporter, the fox hole or something like that.

You know what I mean? Those little, he was like the Michael,

what's that village voice reporter? Michael Musto.

He was the Michael Musto of Berryville. Anyway, he goes,

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