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Perhaps some swine are migrating here bringing their bad habits along.
Hope they get caught by a trooper and receive several days community service picking up trash.
Problem is that it's difficult to catch the offenders. WRAL did a Focal Point on the trash issue a couple of months ago, and they mentioned that. They also mentioned that NC doesn't have the money to run a "don't litter" campaign.
It is awful! I wish we could so something about it... NC is such a beautiful state that all this trash is unneccessary and ruins its beauty! We should all take care of the place we live, even if it means we have to do it w/out the help of state funding. (Not sure if that would ever be possibly but if be great if it was)
I've been saying this for the last couple of years. I too have noticed all the litter and being that I grew up here (now 23) I know good and well that we used to never have litter. It is everywhere I have seen people at a stop light open there door and place neatly litter on the road. The light turned green and then they drove off.
Ive come up with a hypothesis and this is it: 1.) We have a lot Construction Workers here for all the new construction Many Many of whom don't know english nor the rules about littering. 2.) We also have a very high teenage and young adult population. And they typically care less about the enviornment than more mature individuals. 3rd Raleigh and NC was a lot cleaner before the great Northeastern States migration to the south and it appears that gritty Northeast mentality may have followed to our corner of the World. I'm not trying to call anyone or any group out. These are just facts and observations.
I do my part to keep the city and world clean. I recycle, pick up litter on earth days, reprimand people I see littering and report vehicles to the State DOT that I see littering. It is really sad especially when I've been to much bigger cities and the litter wasnt half as bad such as Denver, Atlanta, Phoenix. I just don't get it.
Does anyone care?
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If you see littering in progress, someone illegally dumping trash, or trash blowing
out of an uncovered truck, call the Wake County Litter Line at 856-5700.
I have noticed the litter too. I can't believe what a mess it is along the highways. Time to get the crews out to pick it up.
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