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Dayna I admire your optimism and will to help be a part of the solution not the problem.
However, I have always believed in solving the root of the problem not the symptoms that stem from it.
Lets stop producing these materials that we find littered all over the environment. Enforce new laws to ban the production of this 'hazardous waste' ...the state of hawaii classifies "tibouchina" as a "noxious weed" and transport or sale is illegal in the entire state of hawaii. I would support classifying these "litter materials" as a "hazardous waste" requiring proper disposal and heavy fines and enforcement for violators.
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The truck comments are super weird. Did I miss something? I guess I was referring to MY OWN USE of my truck. I use it to haul garbage to the dump. I've picked up misc crap and hauled it to the dump with my own household garbage.....
edited to add: went and re read the thread. I'm tired. Anyway, I'm not sure what jacked up trucks have to do with garbage on the side of the road...
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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!)
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For anyone who can't figure it out:
Poster made truck comment.
Relationship = people who have no care for aina litter rubbish - also people who have no care for the aina drive huge gas guzzlers polluting our planet. (I don't have any spare planets do you?)
I don't see anywhere on this thread someone making or claiming a direct correlation between littering and driving a truck. Calm down. Move on. No need to start fires where there are none.
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The things that just boggle my own personal mind about the trash that I just hauled to the dump in my minivan, is that it was stuff like eggshells, and butter wrappers, and just regular household trash. An empty catfood bag for instance. Why on earth would you not just drive to the dump?? I mean, I understand to some teeny, tiny degree about maybe not being able to figure out what to do with a mattress or an old washer or something, but just regular bags of trash sort of blow my mind. BTW, I think there are actually people who identify themselves as "mongoloids from mongolia" and I don't think dumb people should be referred to as such. I know, not long ago, people with Down's Syndrome were referred to in this way, but times change.
Also, I don't know if you saw on another post but in the netherlands, they are paying the homeless people in beer- in order to have them clean up trash along the roads.
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Trash on the side of the road.
Yes, this brought back the memory of my son ....eating his lunch at McDonalds during school lunch period.
Standing around his little gas-economy Ranger truck with friends, he threw his food wraps on the parking lot.
Unfortunately for him, our neighbor witnessed this crime and came to us with the story.
Fortunately for my son, he learned a good lesson because his mom and dad sentenced him to "community service" picking up trash at McDonalds for one Friday evening and two Saturday evenings.
Those were the busy evenings for his high school classmates to "hang around" MickyDee's.
Mom and Dad drank coffee and soda inside with friends.
And he did learn a big lesson. R E S P E C T !
He who hoots with owls at night cannot soar with the eagles in the morning.
He who hoots with owls at night cannot soar with the eagles in the morning.
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nana valley, excellent parenting! Good job!
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and next time Kenoi or another pseudomayor try for charge $2 a bag to dump rubbish, you know why to vote against it or them...
it would be 10X worse if you force someone to pay like $80 to dump their 6 months of built up rubbish (40 bags), when they dont even have a truck or car to get crap to dump in...
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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OMG the dump has to stay free. The county would pay 10x more to staff people to go around picking up all the flying garbage left everywhere.
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I always wondered about the styrofoam plate lunch containers, Why? just Why? There is a damn garbage island forming in the pacific made out of this stuff and restaurants could get containers made out of another more biodegradable material. Plus styrofoam leaches toxins into the food. We have known this stuff is bad for 20 + years.
