My Rant: Littering

[squibber]

It seems like more people are Littering these days. It's annoying and an eye sore. I'm the type of person who would pick up the tiniest piece of paper on my property.

I live in a nice suburb. When I walk to the main road from my side street I often see beer cans, drink cups and bottles and once in a while a hard liquor bottle. The on ramp to the nearby expressway is even worse.

A month ago I was parking in a shopping plaza. Apparently the person parked near me took a product out of a box she just bought. She opened her car door and flung the empty box out of her car. She could have easily done that outside the store and throw the box in a garbage can but she didn't.

Where are people's pride? It is so tacky to create this blight. They should double or triple the littering fine.

If I was Indian, I would have a tear running down my cheek. Haha.

[Ed Vette]

There's a special room in Hell for those people. It's next to the room for people who drive slow in the fast lane.

My favorite is homeowners who let the community newspaper pile up and rot at the end of the driveway.

[Bill Brown]

While you may see some trash on the sides of the road, you rarely see bottles or cans because Maine has bottle and can return.  If people throw those out others will pick them up to get the money.

Bill

[DaveBrown74]

Littering is disgraceful, disgusting behavior. It should be aggressively policed, and people who do it should be fined (progressively more punitively for each instance) and eventually jailed if they don't knock it off. I have zero patience for it. Anyone who deliberately does it is a low-life in my book.