#1759 – Left
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
There used to be lots of garbage blowing around the streets where I grew up. It really changed though as I grew up. I think as new generations of kids were brought up with anti-littering PSAs they became adults that didn’t litter. Whatever it was it seems to have worked.
Also, if you have an iPad I have a bunch of new books available in the iBookstore including a free copy of Maximumble #1!
Tags: littering, planet, rocket, space
Oh, those were anti-littering? I just thought they were advertisements for littering. I kept wondering, “Who would actually pay to do this?” as I carelessly dumped my trash out the window every morning.
Maybe if I hadn’t such a short attention span, I might have realized the ads were really… what’s that?
*wanders away*
Not what they mean by “Fine For Littering.”
The amount of trash on the streets where I live (Sweden) has increased since I was a little kid. My mom says that there was even less trash when she was a little girl, but now we see trash everywhere. It’s so sad… And I haven’t ever seen any anti-littering PSAs, neither on TV nor at school…
Maybe it’s time for some!
There certainly are places where it seems nobody cares, and it accumulates. Others that are kept tidy.
Cops call it ‘broken window syndrome’ IIRC; if nobody is fixing things and cleaning up, it’s obvious nobody cares.
When watching Mad Men, I cringed as Don Draper tossed is empty beer can on the ground after a picnic with his family. THEN HIS WIFE STANDS UP AND SHAKES ALL THE TRASH OFF THEIR BLANKET AND JUST LEAVES IT THERE. That’s like unthinkable now.
This makes me sad for the stuff we left on the moon.