Seeing those orange bags, mile after mile after mile is thrilling because you’re part of something big. And it’s clean. It’s really clean. You can see the difference. It’s sort of miraculous.

The best advertising for this is spring. Snow melts, the trash is revealed and it is disgusting. And you can’t help but have the urge to get out of your car and pick up that...

It’s big and good and wonderful. People honk and wave. It’s exciting to be out there. We get a lot of positive reinforcement from the people out there.

It’s just that all the people that were picking up trash started picking up trash together.

The current board has a good track record of releasing water, but will the next board by so environmentally friendly?

We went through a lot of trouble to get this big, blue, vinyl suitcase out of the tree. It was gone when we came back. We have no idea what was in it.

I think it’s a good idea. It changes the power structure in our state, and it needs to be changed. It’s been the same for 100 years.