OCEAN CITY – A resort committee last week was given a closer look into the town’s trash collection and cleanup efforts as part of an ongoing discussion on litter.
Last week, public works officials met with the Ocean City Coastal Resources Legislative Committee (Green Team) to discuss solutions to a growing litter problem throughout the resort.
“This year we really had a litter problem that we hadn’t seen before, and it was on the Boardwalk and side streets,” said Council Secretary Tony DeLuca, committee liaison. “We’ve never seen anything like it before.”
DeLuca, who had first raised the issue in September, attributed the litter issue to an increase in carryout services, a decrease in litter citations, and broken trash cans, among other things. With the help of committee members and public works officials, he said the resort could develop a multi-faceted campaign for the coming summer season.
I found the same to be true in Salisbury Md when I moved here this past September. Trash all over over but after 36 days of cleaning I have picked up over 200 garbage bags of litter. It is starting to show as Route 13 gets better every day near the campus. People are starting to join in and students from Salisbury University will be helping after the holiday. I just go by the idea that every day is Earth Day!
Their Covid enforcement caused the trash issue by their own admission