Littering 

Littering statistics of  Texas

•  Littering amounts started going up in the 1950s as more materials like plastic started going up in sales.

•  Littering has only been ilegal since 1989.

•  Texas roads estimated around 362 millions peices of visiable litter. 

•  About 25% Texans admit to littering in the past year.

•  It costs more than 11.5 million dollars annually to clean up the littering.

•  The fines for littering are $500 for trash equal or less than 5 pounds or 5 gallons repeat offenders could get a fine of up to $2k and 180 days in jail.
  
  
  
  

Effects of littering

• Bad for envirment/wild life

• unaesthetically pleasing

• Bad for peoples health and potential physical hazard

• Trash on the roads can cause accidents 

Bad affects of  littering

• Over 1 million animals die due to littering a year in Texas

• 60% of water pollution is due to people littering 

• Littering will cause some people to get tetanus, cholera and typhoid

• 104 deaths happen annually in the U.S due to trash on the road

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