Teenagers share frustrations after making upsetting discoveries at local park: ‘Toxic’

Playgrounds in upstate New York are seeing increasingly dangerous litter, according to WRGB Albany.

A group of teen volunteers called Reality Check has been picking up cigarette butts and discarded vapes. In one clean-up, they placed more than 100 red flags in locations where they picked up such trash.

“I think the Department of Public Services does a really good job of helping clean up,” said volunteer Myla Evans, per WRGB Albany. “But obviously they can’t get to every cigarette butt that’s embedded into the ground.”…

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