- State of Our Beaches Report from Surfrider
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Trash Talkin’
- It is estimated in that California spends 1 Billion dollars annually on litter clean up
- 7 Billion tons of debris enter the world oceans annually. Most of it is long lasting plastic.
- An estimated 100,000 sea mammals and turtles are killed by plastic litter every year.
- A sperm whale found dead on a North American beach was discovered to have starved to death because a plastic gallon bottle which it had swallowed had plugged its small intestine. The animal was full of plastic material ranging from other plastic bottles to 12m of nylon rope.
10 Harmful Effects of Litter
1.) Litter in the streets and parks can travel through storm drains to bays and oceans, where it harms wildlife
2.) Litter cost money. Removing litter cost everyone who pays taxes.
3.) Threat to Public Health. Attracts rats and other rodents and is a breeding ground for bacteria.
4.) Litter can be a fire hazard.
5.) Looks bad, and can effect the value of your home and business.
6.) Can affect local economy, especially in tourist locations.
7.) Litter breeds other litter. Sends out message that people don’t care.
8.) Harm or kill wildlife.
9.) Harms Waterways. Even animal leavings, leaves and grass affect wildlife.
10.) It demoralizing and disgusting.
If New Orleans can do it so can we. Check out this article! Or this solution from Nola
For more information go to Drink This.
What’s up and coming with California Litter Laws: Californians Against Waste;
Resources:
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Plastic Bags: Messenger Bags
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very informational and helpful for my speech, thank you
litter is important to be stopped lol
Thanks. This info is helpful and supports my persuasive essay.
Thanks for the info. It helped in my lesson.
littering is a bad habbit since it provides a good breeding site for mosquito which traslate malaria from one person to another.it can hurt animals that eart plants or glass.litter harms our water ways,organic matters such as leaves and glass clippings pollutes our water. last but not least!littering makes our enviroment to look ugly
I LOVE IT GOOD INFO FOR MY PROJECT HI EVEYONE IM FROM NEW ORLEANS WESTBANK ALL DAY
thnx, this is really helpful, hehe
effect o.k. what’s the solution?
thxs its helpful
littering i think is so mest up i just want it to stop please help our world be a btter place to live littering is so bad oh and by the way sup logan
I see litter everywhere on the streets and its discusting and it is also dangerous our envioronment and wild life. iwish every one would just stop this dangerous and harmful thing and it attracks bugs. YUCK.:(
such as garbage are yuck
Thanks very much!
thank you this is varry helpful
Very helpful for my project and lots of information is given.
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Needed more information such as the authors names and the dates the information was created.
Thanks. I will use some of this infor. in my meetings.
Thank you so much for the information! It really helped with my school speech I have to do ๐
That’s true…
This was a very helpful article, I too am concerned about litter and what we can do to stop it. My school is performing a commitee to pick up trash at the beach. Thanks for the support I need to finish my project! ๐
I think this is helpful for me because I’m doing acedemic fair!!
this is helpful for my academic fair project!! thanks!
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very very informational
This is very common problem in every area but it is really important to get rid of this shit. It can be very harmful for the environment as well as the health of the people.
This really helped with my public speaking topic! Thanks!
Thank you ๐ This is very informationnal ๐
This is VERY useful for my littering project. Thank you for making this website, and this has many excellent information.
Ive seen the same thing over and over put new facts we see this everywere
We have a saying in Texas “Don’t mess with Texas”. Lettering is just not cool. We all pay for removing with our tax money, so why litter at the begin with ?
very good information very helpful thx
thanks this helps me so much of a speech that i am working!