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The amount of litter on the road-ways in North Carolina reflects poorly on the people living here. My belief is that because North Carolina has a high level of un-employment and poorly educated people, especially in the rural areas, that an attitude of "in-difference" is probably more evident here than in other areas of the country. Litter is a bi-product of the indifference. Go up north in the rural areas and you will not see anywhere near the litter that you see down here. The demographics in the northern rural areas up north is very different than in the south. It's ok to disagree with me if you do, it is only my point of view. It is what it is.
If you think the litter is bad here don't ever live in Asia. Couldn't believe the things I saw people throw out of their cars while living and traveling there. Once saw a guy dump a fridge on the side of the road like it was no big deal
i think I am so used to the garbage everywhere in NYC that it still looks pristine down here.
hOwever , one of my first posts on this forum was the garbage thrown on the sides of 1-40.
It has now been three years and I drive 40 quite a bit from southern Wake up to Durham area and I think the problem has gotten worse. I still deem the area beautiful overall so the garbage upsets me. Funny how it doesn't upset me in NY because it's always been there. I too have been behind cars when people just throw their fast food bags out the window. Makes me ill.
Worked outside maintenance at a shopping mall in Michigan when they passed the deposit bottle and can laws. My job was to clean up the parking lots in the morning before the mall opened.
It was amazing: almost night and day. When the law went into effect, the parking lot was almost spotless, whereas days before it was an absolute mess. I guess it's psychological: people stopped throwing bottles and cans from their vehicles, so they tended to not throw other things out, too.
And when they had to "get rid of the evidence" (i.e. dispose of their beer bottles), they didn't smash them, but instead, put them outside their cars, neatly, in the package!
I think deposit bottle and can laws might be a good idea for North Carolina. I witnessed what an effect it had in Michigan.
I've seen worse. I was driving through the desert north of flagstaff and you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a beer bottle on the side of the road.
I realize that this is an older thread BUT what if each person did something instead of complaining and went out and Adopted A Highway via the NCDOT???? Wouldn't that be wonderful??
We are the inhabitants of this beautiful place and so it's up to each of us to take responsibility . . NOT politicians NOT inmates but YOU and ME!
Okay. Enough ranting!
Please do something. You'll feel so much better!
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