“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.”
Tag: littering
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Letter: Don’t give political power to litter and rats
“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.”
Letter: Citizens should take charge and get it done
“We should teach our kids zero tolerance for polluting in any form, anywhere. Lead by example.”
Letter: On Earth Day, do something real
“For this upcoming 48th Earth Day, I encourage people to pick up roadside litter near your neighborhood. The date is April 22, a Sunday.”
Letter: Slowing gentrification via litter
“I hope very much that the shirt I have been wearing almost daily to the soup kitchen is helping slow gentrification.”
Letter writer: Stop littering roads with signs
‘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?’
Letter writer: Welcome to another ‘TrAsheville’
“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.”
Letter writer: Law needed for trash problem
“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.”
Letter writer: Turning trash into cash
“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.”
Letter writer: Don’t let litter go to the dogs
“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!”