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Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 13 Jun 22

Maybe it is a good idea, maybe it is not. In the city of Malmo in Sweden they have installed garbage bins with sexy, alluring responses when you toss your garbage into them. According to city officials this is to encourage people...

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Flagging tape litterbug

Bert Holopaw @BHolopaw (176) • Orlando, Florida 19 Jan 21

I spent the last few days in the Green Swamp hunting. You are allowed to park anyplace and hike into your desired spot. The property is huge and there is no reason to hunt near anybody else. Saturday morning I parked at my usual...

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green swamp wildlife management area

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Why do people drop litter?

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 9 Jan 19

Our streets, highways and beaches are increasingly being fouled by the litter and rubbish that people have dropped rather than finding some other means of disposal. I have seen instances of children dropping sweet wrappers in...

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Do you think releasing balloons into the air is littering?

jipsyjo30 @jipsyjo30 (42) • United States 15 Aug 18

Nothing gets my ire up more than seeing another story on the news of people releasing large numbers of balloons into the air for another memorial or celebration. To me, it's the same as releasing plastic bags into the sky....

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what is your Pet Peeve

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111937) • United States 24 May 17

Good evening. The other day I post about littering. That is what my pet peeve is. It is so disgusting out there with so much littering. Drivers throwing out fast food junk etc.Butts,paper. That is my biggest pet peeve. What is...

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The World's Greatest Littering Party

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43593) • Denver, Colorado 30 Apr 16

On September 17th, 1982, a group of us made the 75-mile drive from Colorado Springs to Denver to see Rush at the old McNichols Sports Arena. The band was touring in support of their Signals album, and the show had sold out...

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Litter bug's

craftybird @craftybird (80) • United States 6 Apr 13

I find it really irritating when i see people littering.I don't understand, why can't people wait to throw their garbage out until they see a garbage can or get home? Why do people have to make everything dirty? when i go to the...

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Can you for not littering?

nakula2009 @nakula2009 (2325) • Indonesia 4 Feb 11

Can you do something that cares about the environment around you. Not littering, if eating candy, smoking, etc., you throw it into place or a garbage can. Although there are no garbage bins, for which you hold the trash while...

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Persecuted for being a smoker

thedailyclick @thedailyclick (3017) 4 Feb 10

Here in the UK they are getting extremely tight on people who drop litter on the streets with people employed to issue out fines for those who are caught littering, which I agree with as streets full of litter of any sort is...

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IF There were no "Do Not Litter" signs on the highway

clutterbug @clutterbug (1051) • United States 30 Jun 09

what sort of things would you jettison from your fast moving vehicle? Would you use this as an opportunity to clean out your car/truck? This is only meant in fun, I wouldn't be chucking anything out on the side of the road in real...

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Oh Wow

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 7 Mar 09

An Octopus named Truman got a powerful hunger for lunch and the 7 feet long, 30 pound, eight armed aquatic bundle of determination crawled into a glass box that was the size of a child's lunch box packed with live crabs. He didn't...

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Plastic not so fantastic ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 29 Dec 08

I was sad and horrified to see a photograph in the paper this morning of a baby albatross who had been found dead - with 272 pieces of plastic (discarded by careless/lazy/stupid human beings) in his stomach. Littering is one of my...

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400 offences in 90 minutes

ronaldinu @ronaldinu (12422) • Malta 28 Oct 08

Four hundred people were caught littering at Valletta within the space of 90 minutes yesterday. But instead of being fined, they each received a flower from a girl guide. As part of the three-day clean-up activity...

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Recycle for Money

Pritesh101 @Pritesh101 (11) 18 Aug 08

i heard about when you used to be able to recycle your glass bottles by giving it to the corner shop and you would either get money or a discount off somthing you buy in there. there are also recycling centres were you can recyle...

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I'll admit, I used to litter a lot...

jeiyah_12 @jeiyah_12 (1041) • Philippines 26 Jul 08

I'm always telling myself, Save the world for the betterment of the future... I was this much into telling my friends, don't do this... Walk, clean your environment, don't mess, avoid using CFC products... blah,blah... but I got...

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Taking Care of Business

clrumfelt @clrumfelt (5597) • Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee 24 Jun 08

If you want anything done, you have to do it yourself. A Kansas community literally took matters into their own hands to solve a neighborhood problem they were having with illegal aliens. Here's the story: WHAT THEY DID IN...

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Mum fined for littering because her Daughter dropped a bit of a sausage roll.

union6 @union6 (326) 25 Apr 08

Saw this on the news today, im sure if you google it you will find it on the BBC or somthing. But yea cut a long story short this mum was fined somthing like £75 because her daughter droped some of her saussage roll on the flor...

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Litter bugs.. does it bother you?

enchantedleppard @enchantedleppard (1540) • United States 21 Mar 08

Something that continuously bothers me is the trash that lays along side of the road here in Ohio. Fast food wrappers and beverage containers are the most frequent things I see laying along the road. It infuriates me when people...

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To All You Litterbugs Out There

Poison_Girl @Poison_Girl (4150) • United States 17 Mar 08

I have a question for all the people who litter. Why do you find it necessary to just throw your trash on the ground like it's nothing? Are you SO incredibly lazy and self-centered that you can't hold on to it until you've...

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this really bothers me!

catjane @catjane (1036) • United States 5 Mar 08

People who throw litter out from their car! It's really bad here in Pensacola. There is garbage everywhere! How can people be such slobs? do they litter up their homes like that too?

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