How hard is it to throw trash in a receptacle instead of the roadside or a beautiful park?
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You have to get to the kids to get the trend going. When ever I see a kid littering, I tell them to pick it up.  One time, a kid threw a bag on the ground in front of my husband. he picked it up and put it in the kid's hood of his sweat shirt, patted him on the back and said.. Good job.  The kid had no idea. It was hilarious.\nNow.. when will people begin to think of cigarette butts as litter. grrr.
892733
Move my radio to the garbage\nb
502658
garbage dumps filled with people's junk like trashed used cars, cans, bottles, plastic containers, paper, etc. that cannot be broken down quickly or, in some instances, cannot be broken down at all by the action of organic or inorganic forces.
68522
if you have emptied the trash, your back to square\none. it can still be recovered, but you would \nprobably need to have a real techie to look into it
313667
I totally agree- the best you can do is post a handicap only sign and antoher one saying violators will be towed at owners expense.  If these are clearly marked then you can call and have them towed if a non-eligible person parks there.  As long as you specify towing at owners expense you cannot be charged for anything.\n\nThis is why we live in a nation where the largest health risk is obesity- people are too damn lazy to walk the 10 feet across the parking lot!
1106141
I've never done it but had tons of freinds and family that had.  Typically you clean trash off the side of the road, a county cop usually takes a group of you to the location in a van you get out put on bright orange vests and get to work, and if you're lucky people like me will drive by honk and laugh at you.  Other things I know people have done was paint a local community center, my brother did some kind of community service at a hospital because he has a bum knee, so I guess it just depends.
660855
we had a guy put thousands of plastic forks in the lawn, it was sooo funny. another guy took the janitor cleaning cart ( a golf cart) and taped it up with seran wrap and duct tape. with liek 50 ballons in it. Funny stuff\nlol\nGood luck
599772
Call town hall. They'll put you in touch with (probably) the recycling center. Most communities have a few days a year where hazardous waste can be brought and disposed of.
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Probably for the same reasons people throw pop cans, beer cans, dirty diapers, food wrappers etc. on the ground..........because they are lazy or because there was no other place to put the cigarette butt. As far as the dangers involved in cigarette smoke, people have more to worry about as far as factory emissions and vehicle emissions than they do from a cigarette. Smoke rises! Go into a smoker's house and see where the stains from the cigarette smoke is found. It is found at the ceiling level. There are also more health risks from people urinating outside or pets urinating outside, than there are from a cigarette butt left on the ground. As far as the toxins from the cigarette leeching into the ground or getting into our water supply, the risks are far smaller than the chemicals that people use in their gardens and vehicles every day. I would be willing to bet that there are just as many beer cans and alcohol bottles thrown down on the ground each day as cigarette butts.  Look around and you will notice ALL the trash that is thrown down. It's disgusting no matter what the litter happens to be. Personally, I find it disgusting to see parents toss their child's dirty diaper onto the ground, just so they don't have to ride home in their car with the smelly diaper! They chose to have the child and anything that comes out of that child belongs to them! I hate when people allow their pets to roam around and use parks, other people's yards etc. for their bathroom. That is MOST disgusting!  I do have a concern about cigarette butts though, the cigarette butt can be toxic to children and animals, and a lit cigarette carries the danger of starting a fire. For those reasons I wish people wouldn't throw their cigarette butts on the ground and out their car windows. Littering of ANY kind is wrong and should carry a stiff fine. Unfortunately very few people who litter (any kind of litter) get caught. The reason it is overlooked by authorities is for the same reason other littering is overlooked. There just isn't enough manpower to deal with the situation. Police have more important things to deal with than drive around looking for litterbugs. I do think targeting one group of people for littering is wrong. If you want to protest against ALL littering that is fine, but to just have a problem with cigarette butts is ridiculous. The littering problem is not just cigarette butts. ALL littering needs to be stopped.\n\n\nResponse\n\nThank you Kenlas, I wasn't trying to say that there was no smoke down lower. People talk about the danger of second hand smoke even when they are outside. My point was that the little trail of smoke from a cigarette in comparison to everything the factories and vehicles spew out every day would not really be much of an issue. The majority of cigarette smoke rises almost immediately, leaving very little for others to be concerned about. I was using the ceiling in a smoker's house as an example of smoke rising. People want to believe that smoking and second hand smoke are the only causes of lung cancer, but researchers have NO way of proving that people who have never smoked developed lung cancer from second hand smoke. When they do their so called tests, they use HIGHLY concentrated amounts of cigarette smoke to try and prove their case. They know that the factories and vehicles spew out the same and worse toxins, in far larger quantities, than a cigarette, but because of the expense of forcing those two things to be made safer, they choose to ignore them for the most part and concentrate on a relatively small part of the population. Plus they can pass bills to outrageously raise taxes on cigarettes to help generate money whenever they need more money. I haven't seen them raising taxes on ALL alcohol to help generate more money, even though hundreds of people die due to drunk drivers each year. I don't see them banning alcohol in all public places to help reduce the amount
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Make sure that your facilites( toilets/food stalls etc) are evenly spaced and your paths all join up to rides and facilities\nYour visitors to your park like places to sit and relax too so have plenty of seating around food stalls \nMake sure areas for maintainence are defined too, people wont like it if there is rubbish everywhere you can put in bins but they fill up fast\nCheck the "feelings" of your visitors too they actually tell you what they want and what is wrong\nGood luck have fun it's a very addictive game
8913
well...a good place to go would be shopping centers like easton or polaris.  people walking around drop their cigarette butts, pop cans, food wrappers, etc.\non the ground all the time...and this is when there are ash cans and trash cans available to throw the garbage in. ALSO maybe garbage collectors...I always have a mess to clean up on trash day because a bunch of stuff falls off the truck. *shrug* good luck :)
641214
It's a huge pit where cities take their garbage.  They line the pit with clay or plastic to stop toxic chemicals from leaking into the soil.  They run the garbage over with bulldozers to compress it as much as possible.  And when it is full (it usually takes years or decades to fill up), they cover it with plastic and then dirt and sometimes vegetation.  A landfill is a way to efficiently bury huge amounts of garbage without impacting the environment.
1106326
Yes.\n\nStealing garbage is a crime - so recycling would fall under that statute.
875231
Call your city sanitary waste department.  They usually have a place you can take hazardous materials....
269447
Picking up garbage on the side of the road.
848719
It's a very appealing idea, as long as it doesn't get out of hand.  There should be safeguards, and you did say, "convicted."  That's one.  We'd have to fight to keep it from being used indiscriminately, like every traffic stop or if you litter.  These are summary offenses, usually dealt with by issuing a ticket.  But the size of our population and ease of moving around almost makes this proposal inevitable.
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call some junkyards in your area