Put An End To Littering

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Say No To Littering

Okay it's true there's way to much littering going on in the world today...Things have got to change so I decided to create this lens on littering and what it's doing to our planet, our wildlife, our cities and towns, just look around on your own street - do you see any litter?

Why do we litter? How exhausting is it to carry your garbage until you see that future look out with a garbage can, or a washroom along the side of the road...

Here in British Columbia we are working hard to keep our highways, parks and every other public place free of litter...There are harsh penalties here where you can be fined up to $2000.00 dollars in some areas...

It is important for the wildlife as garbage attracts them putting them into a dangerous situation...So do all of us that care a favor and hang onto your garbage until you can dispose of it the right way...

Don't Throw Trash On The Ground

Sesame Street - Don't Throw That Trash On The Ground
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Help Stop The Litter Problem

People all over the world need to get on board and help stop this growing problem...We need to stand together as one and say "No To Littering"...

We as humans think we can do whatever we please and not have to suffer any consequences for our actions...We might want to re-think that, just because it's your cigarette butt or maybe your empty water bottle doesn't mean that little squirrel or the robin living in the area want to share it with you...

I am trying to do my part, I have a Zazzle store "Litter Mania", which is mostly images of litter, but I do have images of wildlife that us as humans are hurting and even killing with our unspeakable littering...Plus I added scenery pictures of the beautiful places that are just being ruined by us the humans that throw garbage wherever we please...

Water Jug Mousepad mousepad
Water Jug Mousepad by Litter Mania

EnviroCorps Care

EnviroCorps is a nonprofit organization that provides you with self-directed opportunities to serve your community close to your home. Litter free roads and parks in one of our objectives available to anyone, anywhere at any time.

Litter And Our Wildlife

Litter is terribly harmful to wildlife, fishing lines will trap the legs, wings, or neck of birds...Foxes and coyotes can cut their feet on broken bottles , small mammals can get stuck in glass jars while their trying to see if theres food inside...Plastic six-pack holders can kill birds, fish and mammals if they swallow it or it gets wrapped around them either trapping them or strangling them...

In the night while most people are sleeping wildlife is wandering the streets looking for food, raccoons, coyotes, skunks are popular here in our city...Not only is it bad for wildlife to scrape threw our garbage it also leaves a huge mess for us in the morning, especially if a baby animal swallows a bottle cap and is lying dead next to the garbage that was thrown out on the ground by some uncaring human...

Are you aware that if an animal like a deer for example, eats to much flour based foods (like bread) that they can die, since it can cause a gummy substance to form within the stomach which then interferes with their digestion systems...Then there's food poisoning that wildlife can get from contaminated food that was thrown out and became old overtime...

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Killer Whale Ipad Case by Litter Mania

Litter Mania Starts On Zazzle

I started this Zazzle store so I could show people the beautiful places where I live being affected by litter...The wildlife thats being affected and evening dying from our litter that we are throwing out along roadways, in ditches wherever we seem to so choose... I've designed a range of different products with my pictures, take the pansy for an example: if littering was to continue eventually flowers would choke and disappear...
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Do You Want This?

It irritates me when I'm driving down the highway then a car or truck in front of me throws out their garbage...It's discussing, rude, lazy, unhealthy and in bad taste...People need to see the effect that littering has, and plain and simply quit doing it...

Are you aware that plastic never really breaks down, it's a inorganic material so decomposing will never really happen...As for a tin can it can take up to 100 years for it to break down, where as your babies disposable diaper can take up to 800 years, is this really something we want littering our highways, parks, beaches or anywhere for that matter...

How about that glass bottle, did you know glass never breaks down, here's an example of that: I was working on a job site here in Vancouver where we were hauling away contaminated soil, as we were digging we found empty glass bottles of whiskey dating back to "His Majesty The King", if you know when that was maybe you could let me know for now I'm thinking over a hundred years ago...Some of these Whiskey bottles were in great shape with only a few chips, they were a thick brown glass, with a unicorn and a lion on the front...


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Daisy Field Mousepad by Litter Mania

How About You

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Have You Ever Littered?

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Yes I Admit I Have

bossypants says:

In all honesty, I certainly must have at some time in my life. I hope it was the thoughtless act of an uninformed child, and not since I've been an adult. In the last 30 years? No, at least I've tried not to!

addisonagnote says:

Yes I admit I have littered when I was a kid. But now I learn that littering could cause a serious danger to our environment.

cookingguru says:

I did when I was a child, I try not to now and cant say I have since my early teens

Ruthi says:

Yes, I admit that I have littered. Now that I am old-er I know better and it is a rarity that it happens. Always if and when I do litter, guilt rides me as a reminder not to do so for a long, long time.

MiddleSister says:

I have accidentally littered! Every so often, something gets away from me in the wind.

No I Would Never

entertainmenteveryday says:

No. It's hard to imagine what goes through someones head when they litter. There is no need to with so many garbage and recycle cans everywhere.

veryirie says:

My husband and I actually carry plastic bags with us when we walk our dog and not just for the doggy doo. We pick up trash as we come upon it. It's just a matter of bending over and putting the litter in the bag. Then one easy toss in the trashcan.

Steve_Kaye says:

I've never littered because I respect nature the way that I respect my home. Of course, both are the same.

wordstock says:

As a life-long camper, it is my responsibility to leave no trace behind. If I have littered, it was unintentional. My grandson is a major stickler about this and will tell strangers to pick up their trash.

Graceonline says:

Not on purpose, though in pre-air-conditioning days, when we drove with the windows down, I remember something getting away from me on the highway where it was not safe to stop. I've seen so many videos and images of plastic choking wildlife and sea life that I now pick up plastic bags and bits whenever I'm out and about.

 
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Littering Is Wrong

Recycle Guys - Littering is wrong
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In My Neighborhood

Looking Out My Front Door

I live out in the country and let me tell you not a day goes by that someone doesn't use our road as their personal garbage dump...One day half a block from my house where the rural mailbox is kept, someone thought it was a perfect place to dump off not just one, but two chesterfield sets...Thats's two chairs and two couch's, what were they thinking, that the people living in my neighborhood were going to check their mail and want a free couch, whatever it was just gross and rude...

Personally I'm sick to death of it, I live here and so do a lot of wildlife, in fact we have a pack of coyotes living across the street from our house and I find it unacceptable that someone would come into my neighborhood and chuck their garbage on my road or on my property...Yes even on my property, one morning when we were heading to work, right at the end of my driveway was two large green garbage bags just full of someone else's garbage...

In the picture is just one of the coyote's living across the street from my house, I took this photo from my front porch...

Important!

We Only Have One Earth - Lets All Help To Protect It

Will There Be A Major Cataclysmic Event

Like So Many People Are Predicting - If this happens we as human's have nobody to blame but ourselves...Did you know that littering also destroys the earth and will be a big part of this day should it happen...

Countdown to End Of The World

End Of The World: December 12, 2012

Littering In The News

Litter summit is Tuesday
Ouachita Parish officials will gather Tuesday to devise a plan to help combat illegal dumping and littering problems that's plagued the parish for years. A "litter and illegal trash dumping summit" is scheduled for 1-4 pm Tuesday at the city of ...
Ohio man's littering ticket tossed after uproar
CLEVELAND (AP) - Prosecutors tossed out a $344 littering citation against a driver whose money fell to the ground after he reached through his open car window to hand it to a panhandler. The city dropped the ticket because it decided the cash didn't ...
Littering ticket issued to good samaritan tossed
CLEVELAND ? Prosecutors tossed out a $344 littering citation against a driver whose money fell to the ground after he reached through his open car window to hand it to a panhandler. The city dropped the ticket because it decided the cash didn't ...
A sensible start to attacking Corpus Christi's litter problem
City staff is focusing on the root cause ? littering ? rather than the unsightly symptom targeted by the campaign. The staff is recommending an educational effort and other options including a bag fee if the awareness effort doesn't show results.

Don't Litter

Do You Think It's Right To Litter?

  • bossypants Apr 20, 2012 @ 12:14 pm | delete
    You are passionate and that makes this an inspirational lens! When I see a cigarette butt (or worse!) come flying out of a car window ahead of me, it steams me. And, it immediately changes my opinion of the person who did it: selfish, ignorant, rude.
  • ggherardi Mar 16, 2012 @ 10:03 pm | delete
    It is not... Great lens. Teach one person, and that person will do the same. And so on. It will go viral.
  • entertainmenteveryday Feb 29, 2012 @ 2:50 pm | delete
    I'm with you and supporting the campaign to stop littering. Please, don't be a little bug! (I remind that slogan from grade school.)

    Great lens!
  • Ruthi Jan 22, 2012 @ 10:06 pm | delete
    It is certainly not right to use our litter to tarnish the gifts of Mother Nature.
  • MiddleSister Dec 28, 2011 @ 3:47 pm | delete
    Of course not!
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All About Littering

A few more places all about littering

Littering And Our Wildlife
What effect does littering have on our wildlife?
Litter Mania Is Against Littering
Littering around the globe is an ever growing problem and needs to be addressed.
Saving Our Wildlife
Our wildlife need your help
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