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Does anyone else have problems with trash throwing out trash on their lawns? I spent about 30 minutes today picking up three 5 gallon buckets of soda bottles, candy wrappers, and beer cans out of my yard and in front of the woods across the road. It really irritates me that people are so selfish. Our communities could look so nice if people could just wait till they get home to clean out their cars. Anyone got any solutions?
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well, the best solution would be like that new car commercial is, notice who litters and pick up all that they throw out and then find out where they live and dump bags upon bags of garbage in their yard..of course thats not very attainable unless your there all day to watch the road..but really, littering is a problem that will never go away and there is no reasonable solution for. you can only hope that get caught one day and gets stuck with a 500 dollar fine.
We had that problem in front of the house I grew up in. We always threatened to put up Plexiglas so that it would bounce back on them & scare the life out of them...haha. Of course, we never did it as that would have been a road hazard and all...dang it.

Yeah, that is a pet peeve of mine as well. How lazy are you that you can't simply throw your crap away when you exit the car? You WILL be going by a garbage can.
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Originally posted by cjtl1000r:
My first question is where do you live? Most of the time certain areas are more pron to litter than others. I personally do not have a problem with it in my neighboor hood. But I do have the advantage of living in the best kept secret in Florence! You think I'm gonna tell you where?
Nah!!!


I live on a county rd. in Lauderdale county. I am at the beginning of the rd and we have quite a bit of road frontage. Across the rd from me is just a bunch of woods. So I guess we are an easy target for kids wanting to get rid of beer cans before going home. I have lived in other places and never had this problem.
I myself do not have this problem with people driving by and dropping their garbage in my yard....I live off the main road and right smack in the middle of 6 acres....However....The trash problem I do have...is stray dogs getting into LAZY neighbors garbage....ripping it to shreads....and either the wind blowing it in my yard...or the dog bringing their new found big mc box over to have lunch...then I have the trash problem.....If my neighbors would contain thier garbage this wouldnt be a problem...but...I just go down there with one of those stick things with the clamps on it...and a bucket...and clean it up....it's about every three days....not too bad...better to do that than appraoch someone and ask them to do something about their garbage...Either way....something I have learned to deal with....
What bothers me is people who throw trash out of their window while driving down the road. I live on an isolated county road, there has been times I have done some investigating and found who did it by determining the time stamp on the receipt. One time it had a very early am time on it, when I said something to an employee who's wife worked a late shift, the littering quit. Another time someone dumped out a whole truckload of trash out, after looking through it and finding a name and address, and not being able to contact the owner, I then called the solid waste dept and they said if they could not get the owner to clean it up then they would do it and charge the owner for it. It turns out the owner paid someone to clean out their garage and they dumped it on me.
The litter problem really sickens me, knowing that here in Lauderdale county we all have to pay for garbage service and my county supplied recepticles are right next to the road where if nothing else they can put their stuff in it, they still are so lazy they have to throw it on the side of the road. When I see someone throw trash out, I try to get them to pick it up, if they don't then I turn them in.

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