• Convenience - no nearby trash container.
• Neatness - care more about their cars' appearance than their community's
• Rationalization - picking up litter creates employment - "It's their job."
• Total Don't Care attitude - carelessness and selfishness

• Convenience - no nearby trash container.
• Neatness - care more about their cars' appearance than their community's
• Rationalization - picking up litter creates employment - "It's their job."
• Total Don't Care attitude - carelessness and selfishness

• Fire - a fire starts every 12 minutes due to litter
• Safety - 500 to 1,000 people die each year in auto accidents trying to avoid litter on highways
• Health - litter breeds rats, flies, mosquitoes, etc. They are capable of spreading disease.
• Wildlife - suffers when litter is washed into streams.
• Economic - Estimates say we spend over 1 billion dollars each year cleaning up litter. Litter reduces property values. Litter deprives local businesses revenue when their dollars are spent to clean their parking lots, etc., thereby costing us higher prices on the goods we buy.

• Fire - a fire starts every 12 minutes due to litter
• Safety - 500 to 1,000 people die each year in auto accidents trying to avoid litter on highways
• Health - litter breeds rats, flies, mosquitoes, etc. They are capable of spreading disease.
• Wildlife - suffers when litter is washed into streams.
• Economic - Estimates say we spend over 1 billion dollars each year cleaning up litter. Litter reduces property values. Litter deprives local businesses revenue when their dollars are spent to clean their parking lots, etc., thereby costing us higher prices on the goods we buy.

• Motorists
• Pedestrians
• Household garbage
• Construction sites
• Commercial dumpsters
• Loading docks
• Uncovered vehicles

 

Report Littering

• Motorists
• Pedestrians
• Household garbage
• Construction sites
• Commercial dumpsters
• Loading docks
• Uncovered vehicles

 

Report Littering