Did you know that tobacco products comprise approximately 38% of all roadway litter? Did you know that 46% of roadway litter is from packaging products? items such as bags, containers, napkins, cups, etc. Also, 76% of this is from pedestrians and motorists. This means people are throwing things out their car windows? Do you do this?
You might be saying "this really doesn't affect me". "Of course people are going to throw things out their car window as they are driving. What is the harm? Someone else will pick it up."
The harm is that litter in a community can decrease your property value by 7%. If that doesn't bother you, maybe knowing that this litter can end up clogging up storm drains or getting into the water supply and possible contaminate your drinking water. This affects us all. Maybe you drink bottled water, so you still throw your trash out the window. After all, why would you leave trash in your clean car?
To clean up all this litter it costs 11.5 billion per year and even if you think you are not paying for it, you are through costs and taxes.
Please don't throw trash out your window. Please think before doing it and put your trash in the cans that are in your home, convenience store, outside of businesses, at rest stops and pretty much every where you go. Your car won't mind to wait a few minutes.
Each time you throw, even the smallest piece of litter out your car window you are contributing to a big problem; think about it!
Just thought i would let you know there is suppose to be a fine for littering, I think $500. Believe me I know I have and still do litter and I need to work on that. What I thought was interesting is, When there is a car wreck or accident, Why is the broken glass or even small pieces from the wreck left in the street? I dont know if the police department would have the obligation to cleaning it or does the tow wrecker. This is not something random ive seen but all the time. So in the end, one accident is several peoples misfortune when they end up with a flat tire from the street not being cleaned. mmmmm...
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