A Reddit post on r/nashville titled “Welcome to Trashville!” drew attention to how bad the litter problem has become in one of the city’s greenways.
The post includes photos of a creek bed near the Stones River Greenway. It shows what the user describes as “a literal river of trash.” The litter clogs up hundreds of feet of what should be a peaceful, natural area.
The original poster explained that they’d gone hiking to explore and look for “little treasures and critters.” Instead, they found an overwhelming flood of garbage.
“It covered the entirety of the 200 ft of creek bed I walked through,” they wrote, adding that much of it appeared to have washed downstream from a nearby facility after heavy rain…