Changes in roadside garbage over time give us clues to societal trends. No one has a better opportunity to observe those changes than people who run or walk for exercise.
I was a runner for about 40 years, then had to give it up for health reasons and became a walker. Now in my seventies, I walk about three miles a day.
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