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    Tag:  littering

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    Letter: Pointers on poo-bag etiquette


    Posted on May 22, 2023May 19, 2023 by Letters

    “Please stop leaving your poo bags by the side of the trails! It’s littering; be a responsible pet owner.”

    1.8 K views4LettersOpinion

    Letter: An inauspicio­us omen for Asheville

    Posted on February 11, 2023February 10, 2023 by Letters

    “Now we lament with our brother and sister homeless friends downtown that Asheville has outgrown its kindness, its friendliness and toleration over the years.”

    5.0 K views11LettersOpinion

    Letter: Asheville, take responsibi­lity for homeless problem

    Posted on July 9, 2022July 8, 2022 by Letters

    “Stop throwing people in the streets while making housing and access to food only for those that you are most comfortable with.”

    5.0 K views12LettersOpinion

    Letter: An all-out war on the homeless

    Posted on April 16, 2022April 10, 2022 by Letters

    “It’s an all-out war on the homeless, supported by comfortable people who profit from tourism and gentrification. Where is our compassion for those less fortunate than we are?”

    3.5 K views8LettersOpinion

    Letters: Stop littering and save our planet!

    Posted on February 13, 2020February 12, 2020 by Letters

    “We are throwing trash out our windows; the trash is going in streams, which goes in a river and then the ocean. It kills turtles, dolphins, fish, seals and seabirds.”

    5.6 K views4LettersOpinion
    Dawn Chavez

    Western North Carolina’s top 2019 sustainabi­lity threats

    Posted on December 26, 2019December 18, 2019 by Xpress Contributor

    Dawn Chávez, the executive director of Asheville GreenWorks, found many threats to the region’s sustainability in 2019. She listed the top five of her worries for Xpress’s year-end review.

    6.2 K views1EnvironmentNewsNonprofits

    Letter: Litter can be deadly to wildlife

    Posted on October 7, 2018October 6, 2018 by Letters

    “We can protect wildlife by rinsing jars and replacing the lids, folding back the tab on beverage cans to block the hole, crushing cans before recycling them and cutting apart every section of six-pack rings.”

    2.6 K views3LettersOpinion

    Letter: Don’t give political power to litter and rats

    Posted on May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 by Letters

    “At the unconsciousness rate we are polluting our planet and the threat of nuclear annihilation by our militaristic world leaders, vermin will probably inherit Earth soon enough.”

    2.3 K views4LettersOpinion

    Letter: Citizens should take charge and get it done

    Posted on May 8, 2018May 8, 2018 by Letters

    “We should teach our kids zero tolerance for polluting in any form, anywhere. Lead by example.”

    2.2 K views5LettersOpinion

    Letter: On Earth Day, do something real

    Posted on April 19, 2018April 16, 2018 by Letters

    “For this upcoming 48th Earth Day, I encourage people to pick up roadside litter near your neighborhood. The date is April 22, a Sunday.”

    2.8 K views5LettersOpinion

    Letter: Slowing gentrifica­tion via litter

    Posted on April 14, 2018April 13, 2018 by Letters

    “I hope very much that the shirt I have been wearing almost daily to the soup kitchen is helping slow gentrification.”

    3.3 K views6LettersOpinion

    Letter writer: Stop littering roads with signs

    Posted on April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 by Letters

    ‘Please, I beg you, stop littering our roads with signs. What must visitors to our beautiful city think when they see all those ugly signs?’

    2.4 K views3LettersOpinion

    Letter writer: Welcome to another ‘TrAsheville’

    Posted on March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 by Letters

    “Wait till you experience Alexander Road and Bear Creek Road in the forgotten land of Leicester — it’s the “mini-garbage-dump roads” of Buncombe County.”

    3.2 K views4LettersOpinion

    Letter writer: Law needed for trash problem

    Posted on March 2, 2017March 2, 2017 by Letters

    “I feel the best solution is for the city, county or state government to impose and enforce a law on property, home and business owners to routinely clean up around their property, including the sidewalk and street.”

    3.3 K views3LettersOpinion

    Letter writer: Turning trash into cash

    Posted on February 4, 2017February 4, 2017 by Letters

    “Do we not see this trash and how it impacts everyone’s quality of life or do we just not care? Let’s begin to see the trash, and then ask for better for our city, our families, our guests and ourselves.”

    2.9 K views1LettersOpinion

    Letter writer: Don’t let litter go to the dogs

    Posted on May 8, 2016May 6, 2016 by Letters

    “As residents of Asheville, let’s be proud of our city and stop acting like cigarette butts and chewing gum are not litter — they are!”

    2.7 K views3LettersOpinion
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