What do you get if you cross some public spirited volunteerism, with seasonal arts and crafts.
Well if you are my Upper Falls neighbor you get a one of a kind wreath she calls In Memoriam Niporium, made from nip bottles picked up from around the neighborhood.
We hope it will soon be hanging by the Upper Falls Greenway as a gentle reminder to local nip’ophiles not to leave their trash behind.
This has got my creative juices flowing. Dunkin Donut cup Christmas tree ornaments? Woven mats made out of discarded face masks? The possibilities are endless.
I like how you think
Very cool! When my brother was a teen he used to make his own wreaths, albeit using a hangar (bent into shape) and then tying green and red wrapped candies all around.
The larger and most unsafe ‘polluter’ problem across Newton’s neighborhoods are FACEMASKS! Nips are miniscule because you see most on the ground in certain spaces within Villages or nearby the Green T Stations on both Inbound/Outbound sides. So, a fee is a good way to raise revenue as that is the endgame for any municipality’s civil servants and elective public servants.
In getting about my Village of Auburndale, through neighborhood streets, and sidewalks to Riverside Station, grocery market and stores and various other venues, FACEMASKS both surgical and handmade cloth types are before me. It’s appalling! It’s criminal! Such litter strewn across front doors of stores, Post Office, Drug Store, Parking lots, in front of homes and elsewhere, are simply a HEALTH HAZARD!
So, keep the jokes coming about little plastic nips that do not outnumber the infectious FACEMASKS laying about the landscape. That’s no joke as a pandemic adding a scarily infectious Delta variant along with the latest largely unknown Omicron variant that promises still more illness and potential deaths are roiling America.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Girard, maybe we can get our little friends to help.
Jerry –
I’m all about helping. Doing so since my youth with my parents/siblings. But I am not sure who the “little friends” you’re alluding to.
I guess you didn’t click on the “our little friends to help” link (above)
An interesting side note. At the last Hemlock Gorge cleanup, I didn’t see a single discarded mask.