Rob Merriman, Medford Clean up litter Judging from the amount of litter along our roadsides, a lot of people do not value beauty. Some parents are failing to train children to responsibly dispose of trash, and the liquor bottles and beer cans suggest a lot of alcoholic behavior. It s easy to blame the litterers, but property owners who find it too inconvenient to pick up the rubbish that accumulated along the front of their land are not much better. Littering is not just a crime against the land and an offense to those who care, it s a problem that impacts us all to some degree. Removal is costly.
Broken glass causes tire damage and personal injury.
Mosquitoes find bottles and cans holding small amounts of water ideal for breeding. We can all do something. We need to talk about the problem at home and in schools to make people aware of it. Every one of us needs to pick up a few pieces of trash every day until there are no more pieces to pick up. Kids, especially, can learn to take responsibility in this way.