What kind of trash is out there?

There is all kinds of trash out there. I think that the DOT research shows that something like 45% of the trash has just blown from somewhere while 55% of the trash has been deliberately discarded. In some places it's wind-blown trash that prevails and in other places it's discarded stuff.

Trash is considered abandoned property. If there is anything of value that a picker finds it's finders-keepers-losers-weepers. Every year we've found money spilling out of abandoned fast food packages. I found a hundred bucks once in a wallet, but there was a driver license in it and so I found the owner. The owner was nice enough to buy me a $20 Caribou Coffee card.

Most of the trash is coffee cups, plastic bottles, fast food trash, clothing, styrofoam, and tools. I found some marijuana on a city street in Minnetonka and I called the cops. I found an SUV in Nine Mile Creek and I called the cops.

Occasionally one finds the remnants of auto accidents, stuff like fenders and bumpers and tail lights.

If it can't fit into a bag, we wrap a bag around the stuff so that the DOT people can easily see it.