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1. Jiggers
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   I've posted this before during summer and I'm posting it again because I ride the bus to downtown getting on in the Junction across from Easy Street from time to time. Now my complaints are the same that the other day you have to tiptoe thru the cigarette butts in front of Key Bank which they are just also littered with other rubbish as the waiting area for the bus looks absolutley runned down, decayed and a health hazard. Now I'm a guy and guys aren't supposed to like even think this way but I guess it is what it is.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

2. dawsonct
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   You have a point Jiggers, I don't mind people who pollute their lungs, as long as they are respectful of my right to NOT breath their smoke, but PLEASE don't drop your damned butts on the streets.
   I smoked cigs for a number of years and understand the thinking that goes into throwing the butt on the street, but it is no more difficult to squeeze the cherry out and put the butt in your pocket until you get to a garbage can. Don't worry, the butts in your pocket won't make you smell any more like a smoker than you already do.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

3. dawsonct
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   You know, it brings up a larger topic, though. When I was growing up, in the 70's, there was a huge anti-litter campaign and it really worked. The streets and highways became noticeably cleaner then they had been in the sixties. It has now been a generation + since those PSA's regularly ran on T.V., and I think we really see the affect that it has had on our society by ignoring it. I constantly see kids, teenagers, and young people who never received the message blithely tossing their litter wherever they are standing, as though they expect it to vaporize before it hits the ground. Really pisses me off.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

4. WSMom
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   I remember the anti-litter ad with the tear running down the face of a Native American made a strong impression on me back when I was a child. I wonder if that ad would seem so dated as to be irrelevant today.

   Found it on youtube...I love you tube! See for yourself:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a7K2uCJvvg

   Posted 1 year ago #         

5. celeste17
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   I live near a private high school and for a while we were having problems with the student's littering in front of our house. We called the school and talked with an administrator and asked if the student's would stop leaving their garbage in our yard and they stopped. But litter still is a problem in my yard. I live on a corner lot and it seems that every week when I take the garbage out I have to pick things up.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

6. SarahScoot
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   As a child of the '80s, I never saw the national anti-littering campaigns, but I still received that message somehow. Many of my peers, however, didn't seem to understand why littering is bad. Especially if it's "biodegradable," people seem to think it's ok. The biodegradable excuse has always driven me nuts. It doesn't make you less of a litterer if you toss a paper wrapper rather than a styrofoam cup. Ugh.

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7. KBear
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   They ought to make the tobacco companies pay to clean up cigarette litter, just like they have to pay for anti-smoking campaigns.

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8. JoB
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   removing garbage cans to decrease the budget isn't doing much either...

   if each of us chose one block a week somewhere and filled one plastic shopping bag this problem wouldn't quickly go away for two reasons...

   people are less likely to litter where it is clean..
   and anything dropped would get picked up.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

9. Julie
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   Some of the kids still have that anti-littering ethic. Read the comments from the kids:

   http://westseattleblog.com/2009/05/tilden-students-learn-many-little-things-can-make-a-big-difference

   Posted 1 year ago #         

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