I just don't get the mind of a litterer. Maybe instead of jail, just have them pick up trash on the sides of the roads, or on the banks of marshes and rivers where the litter can end up.
I just don't get the mind of a litterer. Maybe instead of jail, just have them pick up trash on the sides of the roads, or on the banks of marshes and rivers where the litter can end up.
Anyone remember this?
Not me.
Hee, yes, they poked fun at him in the movie "Wayne's World".
That's the first anti-litter campaign I remember. And "Don't Be A Litterbug". Some time after that, the soda industry changed their pop-off cans (not sure if it was a ban or voluntary).
edit: Keep America Beautiful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_BeautifulCriticisms
Walter Lamb, head of the organization cigarettelitter.org, accused KAB in 2001 of acting in the interests of large corporate sponsors such as cigarette company Philip Morris, to ignore and undermine cigarette butt litter. [7]. In recent years, Lamb has been encouraged by KAB's Cigarette Litter Prevention Program, telling the Riverside (CA) Free Press: "We were very happy with the progress that Keep America Beautiful has made in addressing this important issue, but the tobacco companies need to do much more." His organization's website lauds recent efforts, saying: "ABC News and Keep America Beautiful are to be commended for helping to raise awareness about litter, including the #1 form of litter, cigarette butts.[8]"
Heather Rogers, creator of the documentary film Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage and book of the same name, classifies Keep America Beautiful as one of the first greenwashing corporate fronts, alleging that the group was created in response to Vermont's 1953 attempt to outlaw disposable containers. The focus on litter, and indeed construction of the modern concept of litter, is seen as an attempt to divert responsibility from industries that rely on disposable and planned obsolescence products to the consumer that improperly disposes of them.[9]
Elizabeth Royte author of Garbage Land, describes Keep America Beautiful as a "masterful example of corporate greenwash", noting that in contrast to its antilitter campaigns, it ignores the potential of recycling legislation and resists changes to packaging.[10]
Last edited by GGT; 11-06-2010 at 04:23 PM.
Sometimes it's a problem that there simply aren't enough bins by the road. It's all nice if you want to throw something away, but if you can't there's still a problem. How long do you expect most people to hold on to their litter?
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
We don't have any bins at the road outside of the city centers. You are supposed to take you trash home. We also have to pay for the trash we produce (you have to buy special bags that cost quite a lot).
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
I have seen people stop their cars on the side of the road, and put their empty bottles/food containers on the curb. Instead of just waiting until they got home to throw it out. That to me is more of an effort to litter than it would be just to throw it away properly.
It has to be a mental disorder of some type I guess....
Seriously, must be. I don't think I've simply tossed something nondegradable out in my entire life. Rarely I've tossed an apple core out when on the freeway, but really nothing else. I think my parents impressed on me that it was really horribly selfish behavior.
Yup.
I used to toss food (like a french fry or something small that had fallen on the floorboard) out occasionally too (when I was much younger) until I realized that if it stayed in the road, a bird or some other animal would try to get it and be hit by a car. So that stopped me from even doing that anymore.
We have a decent amount of bins, which I like. If you have some litter but just left home it's quite annoying to keep it with you until you get back home. Plus there are some bums and homeless occasionally who don't have a home to throw it awayOriginally Posted by earthJoker
Dumping garbage in them isn't really allowed, and the openings of the bins are adjusted so you can only throw small things in there. But we don't have to pay per bag of garbage, so there's no real incentive to dump your trash anyway.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
We have rural areas that don't have trash pick-up as a municipal service. They have to contract with private garbage companies. The rural poor can try to compost, collect recyclables and bring them to a salvage company, and/or do limited outdoor burning (sometimes that's banned, though). But it's ended up in lots of dumping instead.
We routinely get garbage bags left on the side of state or county roads, sometimes spaced out like they're thrown from a car, sometimes dumped in mounds. Business dumpsters used to be targeted, but now they're mostly locked behind fences. It's not uncommon to drive the PA turnpike and see garbage dumped next to the state-owned receptacles.
ugh, ya, I remember driving somewhere in PA (mountainous area) and seeing dryers, cars, you name it! down the side of the wooded mountain roads.
It's the same in the western part of VA too though.
My sister in Hawaii has to drive her trash to the disposal center. They don't collect in her area of the island.
The street sweeper came by today! Sucked up the leaves and left a swath of dirt behind him.
The old guy across the street scrambled to move his truck in time.
The old guy across the street scrambled to move his truck in time.
They shouldn't be sweeping this time of year.
I don't like suburban street sweeping for leaves to begin with. But this is exactly the time of year they sweep. Clearing street gutters and keeping storm drains free of organic litter. Trying to remove all the leaf debris before snow and ice arrives. It's really a proactive approach to.....spring rains.
My notion was that you could do, say, an annual or biannual sweep for trash. But street sweepers aren't actually particularly good for leaves. My community instead has big vacuum composting trucks. The trucks are used year-round to pick up organic waste at the curbside. But they work double time in the fall to get leaves. They are surprisingly fast--not much slower than a garbage or recycling truck. Plus, it's very nice for the community to be able to put their leaves, etc curbside, and it all get composted and used for gardening/farming.
Sounds nice, Tear. But in PA we have a LOT of leaves. Penn's Woods, you see. If we had composting vacuum trucks, they'd still be out in full force right now. They'd have to come 'round weekly, almost twice a week during autumn! The city sweeps and collects organic waste to compost, and city residents can get free mulch. But just outside the city limits, in the suburbs, we have to pay for organic removal, but don't get the free mulch. Making matters worse, the suburbs subsidize city organic recycling and their free mulch!
It's a pretty FUBAR system. No wonder we're broke.
Yeah, they come around that often here (where we also have sweeping forests). Not too expensive, all things considered.
Turns out to be pretty expensive here. They're municipal employees, with a pretty sweet employment and retirement package. Using municipal vehicles that need maintenance and storage, also from municipal employees. All of this is from our municipal tax, which is pretty high, because it includes our garbage pick-up and sewer infrastructure, too.
I don't mind paying for refuse and sewer disposal, but leaf sweeping drives me nuts. It's one of the more lame taxed services, because I do it myself already. Everyone could do the same too, it's not rocket science.
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