Littering should stop.Its so easy.

Questions...Answer honestly.

1)Do you litter your garbage?Ever?, or do you only litter when your not around the a garbage can?

2)Do you advise friends to not litter or tell them to pick up thier garbage when you see them litter?

3)Do you go out of your way to pick up garbage you see while walking?


I wish everyone would do these things tell the truth, i wanna see how many people actually pick up garbage and put it in there pocket or just litter it all.

Man, if I actually were a tyrant -- a benevolent one, of course -- I could stop the litter issue with one simple edict. All littering would be met with swift and decisive justice -- immediate, on - the - spot execution.

Sounds too drastic? Do you believe execution does not fit the crime of littering? Well, perhaps it is but the point I am trying to make here is that often it takes a bit of social engineering to "help" people behave in the manner in which society, in general, would like. No one actually likes litter, no one likes to waste their contribution to society, via taxes, to be wasted on a behavior that could be changed so easily. Simply putting up "do not litter" signs does not seem to work. Perhaps, if we added the word "please", littering would come to an end?

Behavior is often modified by making the action in question -- in this case littering -- not worth the penalty. It seems that a simple fine will not solve the problem. Perhaps the penalty should be increased? What would be a good and effective deterant to littering? A $100 fine? $200? $500? A cool one thousand dollar fine for tossing a gum wrapper on the street?
I don't think so. You might have a cleaner neighborhood but you will still find that errant gum wrapper. The only sure way of dealing with littering is through a mandatory death penalty for the least infraction of the littering bylaws. Of course if that doesn't work, the law could be expanded to include members of the offenders family -- wipe out that "littering gene" once and for all!

Thank you.....this has been a policy statement from the "benevolent tyrant" I have read this statement and I approve it.

benevolent tyrant

Making littering a capital offense has merit, but I would not make it an immediate execution -- legalized slow torture may be better.


I pick up litter. My wife complains that after I hike in the woods my pack is fuller when I return than when I left -- it's full of trash. On the plus side I save all the aluminum cans I find and put them in a separate container from our household recycling. About once a year or so I turn all them in and treat ourselves to a nice dinner.

Here are some litter stats for Fairhope Alabama.

* About 50% of litter is "accidently" deposited on our streets and highways
* 96% of accidental litter bugs are males
* 72% of intentional litter bugs are males
* Only 40% of litter is from vehicles
* 59% of litter is paper; 16% cans; 6% bottles; 6% plastic; 13% other
* Source: "Alabama Litter Laws" brochure

www.cofairhope.com...

Litter is something that will never go away. There is always some jerk who doesn't care about anything but them selves. There are many campains directed towards childeren to teach them not to litter, there has been for years. Still some of them grow up and toss garbage around for other people to pick up.

Originally posted by dave_54
I pick up litter. My wife complains that after I hike in the woods my pack is fuller when I return than when I left -- it's full of trash. On the plus side I save all the aluminum cans I find and put them in a separate container from our household recycling. About once a year or so I turn all them in and treat ourselves to a nice dinner.

NERD!

Littering RULES!

You've gotta be COOL to litter!

Zip

Originally posted by Umbrax
Here are some litter stats for Fairhope Alabama.

* About 50% of litter is "accidently" deposited on our streets and highways

LMAO

I need to know what that looks like.
How do they know it was a accident?

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Originquote]Originally posted by Zipdot

NERD!

Littering RULES!

You've gotta be COOL to litter!

Zip

If there were the enactment of the death penalty for littering, then social engineering would have the added benefit of eliminating people who actually thought that it was cool to litter -- to infringe upon the rights of others. Sure there would be casualties in this War on Littering, but there are casualties in all wars. Why should this one be any different except for the fact that we would have cleaner streets and Less "cool" people to cause traffic jams.....incidentally, the "cool" people are also the ones who are usually tooling around in their little late model honda civics with a million watts worth of speakers kicking out earth shaking bass rythmms that bother....well, everyone......oh well, i won't miss the litter or the supposedly cool.