3. Don't drop litter out of your car as you are driving
Just the other day I was driving
behind a car with a GCU decal on the back. The young woman
driving opened up a box of candy and then, to my dismay, rolled down her window
and tossed the outer packaging from the box out onto the road. She then opened
a candy from within the roll, and again out of the window came the wrapper, and
shortly thereafter came another, and another after that. We all see the results
of this behavior multiplied by the thousands of people who do this every day as
unsightly piles of garbage by the sides of the road. However, for wildlife that
litter is more than ugly. It is life-threatening. Broken glass can injure
animal’s feet. Plastic can be eaten by accident, and block animal’s
intestines. Similarly birds, fish and mammals can get their heads stuck in the
plastic rings of six-pack holders or even inside the jars and cans that people
throw away. Even old food can be dangerous. For example, deer love bread and
sweet foods, but those foods can actually make them sick. In addition discarded
food can become contaminated with bacteria that will give food poisoning to the
animals that eat them. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage that washes into
lakes and the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 animals every year!
Get a garbage bag for your car and use it to collect the garbage you produce in your car so that you can dispose of it properly.
http://www.keeparkansasbeautiful.com/litter_prevention/
http://www.praguepost.cz/PPEF/09SC030219.pdf
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/hazmat/articles/trash.html