another reason to NOT litter

[billbill1]

My wife does not litter!! And she keeps all of her evidence inside of her car for proof. The only possibility of her littering would be if it fell off of the pile in her car- to the ground. (She parks by a trash can in the garage too) We get the beer/pop, wrapper trash in our ditch too, I've tried to keep it picked up but it returns quickly.

 

[Captinjack]

My pet peeve is shredded truck tires that actually are a hazard! I travel the highways big time for my job and if there's a litter problem, this is it. I never noticed a smoke butt or saw a mower hit one, but we all know what a danger destroyed recaps are.

The truckers know their tires are shredding and they just continue on as long as they can. I never saw one trucker stop in a safe place and remove the carcass (black aligators) from the road. Now you talk about litter! That stuff can cause major damage and cause accidents and who hasn't experienced this.

Get a life, cigarette butts must piss a bunch of people off for some reason that I can't fully rationalize and then totally ignore a really huge problem. Go figure!

I guess it's more of a case of "If I don't do it, you shouldn't do it either".

 

[CDsdad]

Get a life, cigarette butts must piss a bunch of people off for some reason that I can't fully rationalize and then totally ignore a really huge problem. Go figure!

I guess it's more of a case of "If I don't do it, you shouldn't do it either".

Shredded recaps don't bother me that much. Not a lot around where I live. So I guess it's a case of it's not a "really huge problem".

There are a lot of drunks and smokers it appears. Everywhere I look on the sides of the roads there are beer bottles, cans, cartons, boxes. Lots of cigarette packs and cartons too. I guess a "really huge problem" is directly proportional to how much it is encountered. GO FIGURE!

And I have a wonderful life.

 

[jand38]

My take on the litter problem humans are " nastiest " animals on plant earth.

 

[Barnboy]

This is what my neighbor boys (22-23yrs) leave after a late fishing night. They dont work just drink smoke sleep and fish. This pond is only 3 feet from the property line. I asked their mom once to have them clean it up. It didnt work so I loaded up the bucket and dumped it in their front yard. Out comes mom told her I brought her something to look at because she must like it. She needs to get rid of them Lazy No Good boys.

 

[droy]

Good friend has property down a non populated, dead-end road that has often been used as a dump site; washers, dryers, refrigerators, sofas, etc. in addition to the normal trash.
One day after spotting someone heading down the dead-end road with a pickup full of trash, he grabbed the video camera and went after them. After filming them throwing the trash, he told the two perps. that they had 24 hrs. to remove the trash, or he was going to the cops. They laughed at my friend, who by the way, is a police juror.

Fast forward to their court date, where the judge tells friend to hire a crew to clean up ALL the trash that had accumilated on his property, then have the bill sent to him, (the Judge). He then told the perps that they would have 30 days to pay the bill, or face serious jail time. It took the better part of a day, a crew, a large front end loader, and two large roll-off boxes to clean the area.

The clean up cost was well over $2000.00 if I remember correctly, (this was a few years back), and the bill was hand delivered to the judges secretary.
No it didn't completely stop the dumping, but I don't think those two fellows are repeat offenders.

 

[schmism]

i head up the adopt-a-highway for our local jeep club.

as we are a farily good size group we opted for a large highly visible location. a huge clover leaf off I-70 (one of the heaviest traveled sections in the country)

we do pickups 4 time a year. we usually cover the north side of the interstate on one pickup then the south side the next time.

each pickup avg 30 bags of litter. When we first started we were avg 100 pags per pickup. but that was years of accumilation of bottles cans and whatnot...

(small soapbox) The governer asked kids to submit ideas to reduce drunk driveing. A fairly smart middleschooler submited an idea to stop selling cold bear at convinece stores. After all the only point of selling it cold NOW was to consume it NOW...(ie while you are driveing)

last time i picked up roughly half the trash i picked up was those large 30-40oz bear cans. Generally only sold at the local gas stations. Comming in with a tie for second was plastic soda bottles and fast food stuff, (containers, wrapers, cups etc)

btw we also have a prize for "most instresting trash found" which is always fun....

oh and also ... you'd be surprised how many wallets/ID's/credit cards we have found... each pickup usually nets at least one of the mentined.

 

[Slamfire]

Our Ruitian Club has a festival in October. Right about now, us ancient, unemployed, stiffs are out cleanin' up the side of the roads. After the bags are loaded and hauled away, the local snots will haul plastic bags full of trash to likely spots and toss it out. That's when we call the Sheriff, and he sends us a work crew! New Sheriff this year I wonder if we'll see any prisioners?

 

[Catmando]

One time I was just ready to pull out on the road with 12' haybine. Saw this car comming toward me down the road with paper flying out the window. Pulled tractor and haybine on the road and stopped. When the car had to stop I walked back to driver and asked him if he threw a bunch of paper stuff out the window. He knew enough to say yes. I told him that I didn't want to have to pick up his mess. Suggested he go back right now and pick it up.

Found out later that he was the milk inspector for the neighbor whose tractor and haybine I was using. Told the neighbor about the incident and said that I was right in what I did!

 

[TMcD_in_MI]

Sounds like we need some more states to get bottle deposit laws passed. In Michigan it's fairly rare to see beer or soft drink containers alongside the roads. I think that kids probably throw out just as many, but ten cents a can is apparently enough to get somebody else to pick them up and cash them in.

Tom