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12 Ways You Can Prevent Litter

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12 Ways That You Can Prevent Litter 

There are many ways that you can help make your community cleaner. Here are 10 suggestions:

1. Set an example by not littering.
2. Pick up one piece of litter every day.

3. Every week, pick up all the litter in front of your house, including the street

4. Ask your neighbors to properly dispose of their trash. Show them the difference between a clean area and an area spoiled by litter, and stress why it’s important to put trash in proper containers.

5. Make sure that your trash cans have lids that can be securely attached. If you have curbside trash service, don’t put out unopened containers or boxes filled with trash.

6. Carry a litter bag in your car. Ask local businesses to buy car litter bags and distribute them to customers. Encourage them to print their names and an environmental message on the bag.

7. Ask your neighbors and or friends to join you in cleaning up one public area where litter has accumulated.
8. If you or a member of your family is involved in a civic group, scouting, or recreational sports program, encourage the group to become involved in a cleanup.. Or have the group “adopt” a spot and maintained it on a regular basis.

9. Find out how you can plant and maintain flowers along a curb or sidewalk. People litter less where areas have been beautified.

10. Ask business owners to check their dumpsters every day to make sure tops and side doors are closed. If the business has a loading dock, ask them to keep it clean, and to put out a receptacle for employees to use.

11. Ask business owners to provide trash cans in front of their business with a sign.-Please do not litter

12. If you own a construction or hauling business, make sure your trucks are covered when transporting material to and from sites. Use snow fencing around construction or demolition sites to prevent debris from being blown into other areas. Put trash containers on every floor for construction workers.

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  2. this site Is very amazing it gives you 12 ways to stop litter and the more litter the more animals that die and don’t have any food so stop litter and in Georgia it is 90 million dollars so stop litter please that’s what this site is for.

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  16. I am 10 and I see some persons setting a bad example for me and the younger ones please,please,please,please,e.t.c
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  21. this page is very helpful, it just shows how if everyone does there bit we can end littering!

  25. Littering just kills the animals. Without the animals, we can’t survive. (Unless your vegetarian). God did not put us on the earth to just ruin it. We should all stop littering.

  27. let’s all try our best to stop litter.I can’t believe that all this information into a long essay will go to the NYS senior!!Well, I hope you will all find a detail! I agree with everyone.

  29. If you can’t do it, try to recycle by picking up trash and put it where it belongs! Try to tell your neighbors to pick up litter by holding up a sign that will catch their attention!

  32. Thanks, this helped for my anti-littering contest report! Can’t believe people could do such horrible things

  35. Life is a happy time but we can only enjoy it if we have a good environment. I thank this website so much for giving these ideas.

  36. Thank you for this article. I am 18 and planning to major in Environmental Science. Meanwhile, I am working in my school and community to become more environmentally sustainable. Part doing so requires that litter is prevented. I read this article in hopes that it would give me some ideas to put in my petition of how a local government could do so. Unfortunately, this article did not provide me with that. Nonetheless, I enjoyed reading it and I support it and its plea to prevent littering. I also am very excited to see so many enthusiastic comments about it, many from the younger generation, which is our Earth’s future. Anyway, it would be great if ways a community/government could influence the prevention of litter were added. Again, thank you for the article.

  38. Thank you so much for the information. I am going to tell my class about this. Everybody should stop littering, because nobody likes littering. I am going to use these tips and do them.