The Bite:
Sometimes, you just gotta take matters into your own hands. So help keep things clean by picking up a piece of trash each day. After all, every litter bit helps (sorry, we couldn't resist).
Does litter bug you out?
04.23.2007
Submitted by idealbite on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 1:01am.
The Benefits:
- Safer for ocean life. About 100,000 sea mammals and turtles choke on or get tangled in plastic ocean debris each year.
- Help out the fire department. Every 12 minutes a fire starts because of litter.
- Safer streets. Litter causes thousands of accidents per year (for example, paper can get caught on your windshield while you're driving), and disease-carrying mosquitoes and rats thrive in it.
- Stop others from littering. Studies show that people are less likely to litter in clean areas than trashy ones.
Personally Speaking:
Biter team members employ this tip regularly. That said, there are certain things we just won't pick up off the ground.
Wanna Try:
No need to don reflective gear: next time you see a piece of trash, pick it up and put it in the garbage.
- Keep America Beautiful - the biggest anti-litter organization in the U.S. Its Great American Cleanup campaign continues through May 31.
Jeff Ramsdell
Cocktail Fact
In 2001, the state of Missouri changed the name of a stretch of freeway the Ku Klux Klan adopted for litter cleanup to the Rosa Parks Freeway.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters pick up a piece of trash per day, the planet'll be a helluva lot cleaner.
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