Talk:Litter

message: I think most of the additions added by Norm are great.  However, Norm also ad
ded this one section, which is POV:
:Who is to blame?
:The rise of fast food companies serving their food in cardboard and plastic instead of using reusable plates have increased the ammount of litter in modern times. Smokers are also blamed since a lot of their ciggarette stubs end up as litter. Younger people often litter because they think it is "cool" to litter.
To say fast food restaurants are responsible for litter is like saying Smith & Wesson is responsible for gun-related crime or that McDonald's is responsible for making people fat.  Fast food restaurants don't hire people to spread litter: in fact most encorage their patrons to responsibly dispose of their trash.  The smokers sentence is also a little POV, but it is true a lot of them do toss their butts out of their car windows.  Perhaps something should also be said about how they can spark fires?  I don't know if the "younger people" sentence is completely accurate either.  In short, it needs NPOV'ing and then can be added back in.  Anyone want to take a shot at it? a lot of people want to help the place with the littering but the people that keep on ruining the place is the people that dont care about the earth and people should worry more about it.— Frecklefoot | Talk 18:46, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
Could a section be added for countries that have stopped/reduced litter e.g. Finland, Scandinavian counties and Japan ? Talk 9:00, Sep 7, 2020  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.31.241.93 (talk) 08:08, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Earlier talk

message: I have removed the section "Who's to blame for litter?" as the entire section was a big mess.  The title was unprofessional, The first paragraph of the article was little more than a list of people who litter, and the other section was written like a grade seven essay. Not only did it not elaborate on some of the points it was trying to make, which for the most part were uncited, it was also written from a non-NPOV. If such a section is deemed necessary for this article, it would have to be entirely rewritten in order to solve these problems. Therefore, I have removed the section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Twipie (talk • contribs) 07:31, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who's to blame for litter 

message: Cigarette buds are the most littered item in the world, with 4.5 trillion discarded annually. The cellulose acetate buds are not biodegradable and, as a result, their chemical decomposition can take many decades.  DONT LITTER!
The source for that statement doesn't mention the 4.5 trillion figure. Does anyone have a source, or should this figure be removed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeldafanjtl (talk • contribs) 05:10, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced figure 

message: I added this:
In Kiwayu, a Kenyan island, some of the collected litter (flip-flops) is used for making art, which is then sold (see FlipFlop Recycling CompanyThe FlipFlop Recycling Companyhttp://www.swahili-imports.com/home/si3/page_5146/uniqueco__the_flip_flop_project.html).
Perhaps a page can be made on it, its quite important as it's the only project I know that is economically beneficial.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.103.165 (talk) 11:16, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: FlipFlop project

message: * Project encouraging people to voluntarily clean up beaches and deposit it in a container
Perhaps mention in article
KVDP (talk) 14:47, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Project encouraging people to voluntarily clean up beaches

message: The usage and primary topic of  is under discussion, see talk:garbage (disambiguation) -- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 04:20, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: "Garbage"

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