Picking Garbage at Lambeau

Yesterday Pat and I were with our son and his family picking up garbage littering Lambeu field in Green Bay after the NFL football game Thanksgiving eve. Our grandsons are in the Pulaski High School band and are raising money for their band trip to the Rose Bowl game in 2017. The stadium was full of garbage, cards from a display, peanuts, water bottles, candy wrappers, food and, most of all, beer cans. There were thousands of bear cans and at $8.50 or 9.50 a can we were surprised a few were not even opened. Our job was made more difficult since the game was in rain and the water froze much of the trash to cement and ground.

Picking Garbage in Guatemala City

As we were sweeping and picking up the garbage I was reminded of another scene I witness of people picking through the garbage. It was at a large garbage dump in Guatemala City and people were picking through the garbage looking for food or items to sell. There people were picking through garbage for survival while we were picking up garbage so the stadium can be cleaned for the next home game so the scene can be repeated.

We expected to be there for about two hours but ended at the stadium for six hours. Yet we earned about $30 each for grandsons’ band trip. Next time we will just donate the money and skip the garbage picking. The garbage pickers in dump in Guatemala City wish they could earn $30 a week. Garbage picking is no fun but somewhat has to do it, for survival or to make some money for a band trip.

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