We bought our house a year ago and are hacking away at the old landscape. We have a hell strip with that yucky small river rock. it has plastic under it which has degraded and now has weeds thriving in it. I want to remove the rock and replace the yuck with xeric fabulous! What do I do with this yucky rock. I had been hand picking it and tossing it in my neighbors rock strip. But that is taking about an hour for a 1 foot section. I don't want to just 'trash' the rocks cuz it feels so environmentally horrible, but I'm really done with hand picking clean rock. If I dig it with shovel, it will end up being rock,dirt, weed, and plastic.

HELP!!!!