A crew picking up litter along Florida’s Interstate 4 found bags holding 60 pounds of freshly harvested marijuana. The report did not say if this stretch of road was eligible for “Adopt a Highway.”
Photo by “Local 6″ WKMG Orlando cited by the Earth Is Not a Trash Can blog.
The British blog “Cambridge Matters” has a recent post describing the various types of litterers and their rationales for littering.
A dozen more pieces from yesterday’s Jordan Street SoBe bottle, and a glazier’s dozen from a second SoBe bottle on the sidewalk along Genesee Street. (Some SoBe drinker is having issues.) Also on Jordan Street, one half of a brown glass bottle, broken and stuffed into a hedge. I enjoy theme litter, but broken glass is scary, especially if you’re a dog or a cat.
In the first four blocks of Jordan Street this morning: one SoBe bottle, shattered, the broken glass held together by the plastic label; one SoBe bottle intact; one Lipton Tea bottle intact; one white plastic sundae dish; one plastic Kool-Aid bottle; two white plastic bags; one Johnny Angel’s yellow cup with lid and straw.
“The law against throwing litter and rubbish of any kind into the gutters and streets is daily and hourly violated in the best sections of this city and that by people who have not the excuse of ignorance of the law… We have seen well-dressed men on their way downtown deliberately toss into the public highway the eight-page newspaper which they had just finished reading. We have seen the same class of people disembarrass themselves of handfuls of paper and scraps by the same easy process.”
– From Street-cleaning and the Disposal of a City’s Wastes: Methods and Results and the Effect Upon Public Health, Public Morals and Municipal Prosperity (1897) by George Edwin Waring, Commissioner of Street Cleaning in the City of New York
Passing by the Skaneateles High School: one plastic dispenser filled with Sweet Breath Breath Strips; one spent can of Silly String (Age 5+) from Just for Kicks, Inc., in Watertown, N.Y.; one plastic container of Grizzly Long Cut Mint — because chicks dig guys who drool and grow tumors — made by American Snuff, a division of Conwood LLC in Memphis, Tennessee, a division of Reynolds American in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
A Sunday offering of one Budweiser long-neck in the melting snows of Austin Park, and one receipt from the P&C from 12:59 p.m. this afternoon for the sale of Purex 2X Ultra Concentrated in the”After the Rain” scent. Probably doing a load of holiday aprons.
In the middle of Jordan Street on Thanksgiving Day, four New York Lottery cards folded twice and hurled from a car window: two $1 Loose Change; one $2 Multi-Money, with 15 chances to win; and one $5 Sizzlin’ Red 7’s, with flaming Hot Numbers that might “Win Up to $777,777!” but did not.
“Carelessness up to the present time has added to the work and expense and has been a real obstacle to real cleanliness. It must be remembered that before the sweeper can begin that part of the work that is beyond prevention, he must first remove the litter carelessly thrown in the street.”
– From Municipal Housecleaning: The Methods and Experiences of American Cities in Collecting and Disposing of their Municipal Wastes — Ashes, Rubbish, Garbage, Manure, Sewage, and Street Refuse by William Parr Capes. (New York, Dutton, 191 
“The litter in this room is so appalling that it takes me five minutes to find my pen.”
– Virginia Woolf in her diary, December 16, 1939
