How does littering affect our world?

Question

I just wanted to know people's opnion on how does littering affect our world???

Answer 1

1. Plastic bag by the highway gets flipped up into the air, blocking the view of a driver as a child darts from the sidewalk or swerves into oncoming traffic to try to avoid the bag.

2. Your family pet eats something thrown out and either dies or requires extensive and expensive veterinary care to operate and remove it.

3. You fall on some broken glass.

4. Your highway department runs low on funds to fix potholes or remove snow because of having to fund the manpower to clean up what unthinking people do to spoil the beauty of much of our world.

Personally, I think it's an utterly foolish habit whether it be someone tossing a cigarette butt (if not fully out, possibly starting wildfires) or a bottle or can from kids trying to hide their drinking habit from parents to people just unthinkingly tossing anything out (food wrappers, cups, etc) instead of carrying a trash bag in the vehicle and disposing of it properly.

I know that some areas issue fines if people are caught littering, but the possibility that an officer who could issue the citations would be on site to see a person littering is infinitesimal.

Answer 2

Littering is not the worst environmental problem we have, but it is certainly preventable. Besides the unsightliness:
1. Some trash leaks pollutants into the soil, the groundwater, or into surface water systems.
2. Discarded fishing line entangles birds.
3. Plastic bags in the ocean resemble jellyfish enough that sea turtles eat them.
4. Litter leads to more litter. People tend to add to trash that's already there.
5. Seeing litter-filled roadsides and streets takes away from our sense of well-being and contentment with our surroundings.
6. Broken glass and ragged metal are health hazards, as are discarded syringes and worse items.

Answer 3

Here's my "top ten" list:


1. Animals can eat or get tangled in refuse, making them get sick and possibly killing them.

2. It can lure some animals in search of discarded food to the edges of roads and highways, making them more likely to be hit.

3. It just makes our nation look ugly and gross. How many times have you driven down a highway and wished that someone had "adopted" that stretch?

4. It makes the area residents look as if they are slobs, which not many people want.

5. It makes someone else responsible for cleaning up your mess. I don't like cleaning up other peoples wrappers, cigarette butts, and other garbage from my lawn.

6. It dirties our water supplies, not only hurting plants and animals that also use that water but also causes more damage to our sewers and water purification plants, costing us more money.

7. Clean-up crews cost taxpayers more money. Even if it done by prisoners, there is the added cost of busses driving them there and the guards that watch them.

8. It gives us a bad image in the eyes of people from other countries. We should be showing them our best, not our plethura of Doritos bags and pop cans (although, here in MI there is almost never a pop can found because of the 10 cent deposit/refund on every pop can/bottle. Just that little incentive is enough to make people take care of them and recycle more.)

9. It teaches bad manners to our children: "if you don't want something or are finished, just throw it on the ground and let someone else pick it up."

10. Paper, glass and other recyclables that become litter are rarely recycled, meaning that more raw materials are used instead of saving them by recycling those materials.

Answer 4

I think one of the greatest effects is the visual effect. People don't like seeing trash lying around spoiling the beauty of the planet.

But there are other negative effects like the cost of removal and the toxins that seep into the earth.

Answer 5

for one thing, it's ugly. it would be life a beautiful woman using moldy banana peels and greasy hamburger papers as make-up. second, it's disrespectful towards our environment. we get our water from the earth, so why would we want to dump poisons in it? our earth provides the air we breathe, so why taint it with chemical vapors and toxic fumes?

did you know that, in one year's time, when people flick just their ashes from their cigarette out their car windows, enough ash is dumped to fill the cars it's being flicked out of. and that's just from one driver!! just something to think about.

Answer 6

It makes it look like the white man owns the world

Answer 7

It makes places nasty & dirty looking. Hides the beauty of the true nature. It may stop tourism. People dont wanna see dirty places.
Keep it clean!

Answer 8

It makes what God made (the world) look trashy...You would trash something that someone else made would you?