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Purpose
Lots of people litter when they are sometimes going on walks. Littering can cause lots of problems if it is on sidewalks. Scroll down to help.
We also want people to not stop picking up! If we stop everything will get dirty again. Please try to encourage people you know to help out!
SHow what you have done!
SHow what you have done!
We have made a petition to get people to pick up, and a spreadsheet to record the trash you have collected.
Sign the petition here: Petition Link
Record your date here by using a row to record your data: Spreadsheet Link
Why is it so important to clean up sidewalks?
Why is it so important to clean up sidewalks?
It's very important to clean sidewalks for lots of reasons.
For example, your pets safety. Animals like dog love to eat things they see on the ground. If there is a chocolate rapper they might try to lick it, and could get sick
Litter can effect not just pets. It can effect marine life, even if you dont live near a body of water! Wind can cary litter hundreds of miles if not picked up and infect marinelife. Some waste can kill animals, and others can make them sick.
Another reason is that it can make areas look bad. It is not fun to go on a walk and see trash every where you look. It is alot nicer to have a clean enviroment to excersize in. For example, would you rather want to work with a building that looks clean? Or one thats dirty. Probably a clean one.
Finally, littering can infect your drinking water. This litter can infect bodies of water, or can get into the soil leading to the water.
What can you do to help?
What can you do to help?
There are lots of ways to help out, including putting a trash bin where there is not one. It is really that simple to make a difference. Alot of littering happens since people do not want to go out of the way to find a trash bin. If you do get a trash bin, remember to take it out when you can! If you want to help even more use a metal trash bin an plastic is worse for the enviroment.
Another way to help is to go on a walk, run, or bike ride and just pick up trash when you see it! It’s nice to be outside, you can be getting excersize, and helping the enviroment!
One more way to help, is to share these ways to others. The more people who help out can help make a bigger change.
10 Facts about littering
10 Facts about littering
Ciggerates are something that is mainly littered, and takes 10 years to decompose.
Littering can infect bodies of water, making drinking water worse.
14% of bottles/cans get litttered.
Littering can cause safety hazards, fire hazards, human health hazards, and indirect health hazards.
Billions of tons of trash are dumped into the ocean yearly.
23% of littering is caused by walkers, which is typically on sidewalks. (Discluding biking, roller blading, etc.)
Millions of dollars are spent YEARLY on cleaning up litter.
Littering can bring buisnesses down due to there property looking not as nice.
Places with high littering rates can make crime and fire rates rise.
A main reason for littering is people are to lazy to walk to a trash can.
Sidewalks are only one area that litter is caused by, but cleaning just that can make a difference.
Sidewalks are only one area that litter is caused by, but cleaning just that can make a difference.
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