12-16-2013, 12:41 PM
Have been coordinating beach clean-ups & involved in road/park/forest cleanups for almost 3 decades...here & on the mainland...
Gotta admit happens both places & cleanups are only very temporary...
ALthough here is the first time I have ever heard people rail against the volunteers cleaning up the litter, stating that the volunteers are taking away a county job from someone (all I could think of is"yah, like the county is going to hire peoples mothers to clean up after them!") Oh, & this happens at many of the cleanups, not just one or two & I coordinate 2 every year & work at others...
Things to note: plastic bags litter data shows that the amount in cleanups have gone down since the bag bill, but the cans & bottles....well they lag much more behind since the HI5....maybe a bag is more "precious" to waste at 5 cents than a can or bottle... who knows?
have never found data on any PAID light littering offense tickets...was involved in a lava tube cleanup out of Ookala when we first moved that had obviously been a families own "dumpsite" for years; vehicle batteries, household materials, construction material & mail & such was found...even a valid credit card from one of the people... shoulda kept that, as at the potluck after the cleanup, the community police officer stated they could have charged the cleanup to the card....
so, if you litter, be very careful of what & how much personal info you dump off! (or hope that your card is not found by a community police officer, or someone else!)
Gotta admit happens both places & cleanups are only very temporary...
ALthough here is the first time I have ever heard people rail against the volunteers cleaning up the litter, stating that the volunteers are taking away a county job from someone (all I could think of is"yah, like the county is going to hire peoples mothers to clean up after them!") Oh, & this happens at many of the cleanups, not just one or two & I coordinate 2 every year & work at others...
Things to note: plastic bags litter data shows that the amount in cleanups have gone down since the bag bill, but the cans & bottles....well they lag much more behind since the HI5....maybe a bag is more "precious" to waste at 5 cents than a can or bottle... who knows?
have never found data on any PAID light littering offense tickets...was involved in a lava tube cleanup out of Ookala when we first moved that had obviously been a families own "dumpsite" for years; vehicle batteries, household materials, construction material & mail & such was found...even a valid credit card from one of the people... shoulda kept that, as at the potluck after the cleanup, the community police officer stated they could have charged the cleanup to the card....
so, if you litter, be very careful of what & how much personal info you dump off! (or hope that your card is not found by a community police officer, or someone else!)