Do you dig trash?…..

[Mike from MI]

I have recently been in the local lakes for 3 different water hunts. You seen my post from 2 weeks ago where I dug exactly 100 pieces of trash, but also got two gold rings and a silver one. Yesterday I dug over 100 trash targets again, and today a little over 100 more. While digging all that we find coins, and hopefully some good jewelry. But another good thing is the amount of trash we remove from the lakes. Here is the trash that 3 of us removed from the lake today. A little over 300 pieces. (189 beer caps, 66 pull tabs, and over 60 misc trash items.) MORAL TO THIS STORY: #1 Dig trash and the treasure will find it's way to your scoop. #2 Dig trash and you help clean up the lake, #3 Most of the people who party at the lake are PIGS!!!!!

 

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[cooper1841]

I think I have a 2 gal bucket, full of pull tabs, and bottle caps, all aluminum, no gold rings, just a small gold watch chain. Your right, Mike......................people are pigs!!

 

[ARC]

people throw things anywhere they please... and some just are lazy and don't sucure in winds etc.
I have been cleaning up after them for 30 years.
I volunteer at State Parks ... an average day out 10-20 pounds of beached or floating debri... I am out at daybreak till sunset... patrolling backwaters, channels, boat launches, passes etc.
if a storm or rough water the day before... 25 + pounds of debri/trash. PER DAY.
I have returned with whole front dive area covered in trash and towing anything from pallets to dock crap by rope

 

[Jon Stewart]

Not metal detecting related but wife and I are long distance bicyclists. You want to see trash, ride the sides of our roadways for a few miles.

We are wasteful pigs who have no respect for our country.

 

[DiggerKep]

I think this is a testament to our hobby, not only do the vast majority of us respect and value the earth but while we are searching for treasures and history we are cleaning up after others. It's a great example of how metal detecting is and can be a positive and beneficial activity to the environments we hunt. I often joke with landowners of places I hunt that I am removing large amount of junk metals from their land.

 

[mlayers]

Yep I dig a lot of trash also. I keep 5 gal buckets in the garage and I sort my trash every time I come in when the buckets get full I take them to the recycle place for the little bit of cash it all adds up

 

[Michiganne]

Agreed, people are very poor stewards at times. I've been out in many public natural areas and never fail to see human trash. Sad, really.

Thanks for doing more than your part of cleaning up the environment, Mike.

HH

 

[fistfulladirt]

Nope, I don't dig trash, at least not on purpose. There is a lot out there!

 

[Brentallica]

It always amazes me how much trash is buried. Parks seem to be the worst but many yards are loaded too. Funny how amazed property owners are to see how much junk you pull from their yard

 

[CoilyGirl]

Trash in people's' yards is what astounds me. Maybe some of the yards have fill dirt in them? I dunno but some yards I've hunted still have tons of pulltabs in them. This video must have hit home with me when I was young because I don't litter.

 

[Mike from MI]

Good one Coilygirl!

Trash in people's' yards is what astounds me. Maybe some of the yards have fill dirt in them? I dunno but some yards I've hunted still have tons of pulltabs in them. This video must have hit home with me when I was young because I don't litter.