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I show litter that I find offensive. I am trying to educate folks to recycle, reuse and reduce.
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Why Do Southerners Toss More Trash?
Is it the Northerners who have moved here? Here’s a depressing story from the Florence, Ala., Times Daily. Mississippi is the worst state for litter according to the study. Others in the top ten...
Cigarette Litter Prevention Program
While this blog primarily points out the ugliness of litter, I try to promote its prevention, too. The day I photographed this cigarette butt on the side of the street, I found at least a dozen butts ...
When the Music’s Over (Or the Election)
Please remove your signs. Our local school board election was over last week. While the candidates have three weeks to remove their signs, I took the liberty with this one for Limbird and took it away...
Ireland is Using Hidden Cams to Catch Litterbugs
Way to go, Ireland. Here’s a story from the Nenagh Guardian. A member of North Tipperary Co Council has proposed using a hidden mobile CCTV camera unit to catch litterbugs and combat illegal dum...
More Ill-Maintained Property
When I walked to the Bellevue Announcements sign a few days ago, not only did I find hazardous sidewalks, I passed a house with this in the back. Unfortunately, this rubbish has been here for the twel...
Thanks, Readers
July 2008 was the best month yet for The Earth is not a Trash Can with over 3000 hits. Yes, I know that isn’t a lot in the blogophere, but it’s growing. Most of all, I want to create a gro...
Trashing National Treasures
Here’s an excerpt from an excellent article about the Great Wall of China in the August 2008 Smithsonian: As Sun Zhenyuan and I [Brook Larmer] duck through the arched doorway of his family watch...
At the Albuquerque Zoological Park
Most of the areas between the public viewing and the animal exhibits were filled with plastic bottles or soft drink cups. This is inexcuseable as the park offered plastic recycling containers everywhe...
Puppies are Not Trash
My conscience won’t let me ignore this plea to help find homes for these unfortunate puppies: Prepare to fall in love . . . Contact: Kristin Basseen kristinbasseen@hotmail.com Check out these pr...
McDonald’s Egg McMuffin is Trash
I didn’t know what this food was when I first spotted it. Well, I knew that the first one was bread. I’m certain that it’s an aging Egg McMuffin from the evil empire of McDonald̵...
Left Behind
At the bus stop this morning, there were two paperback books left behind. Just as a few weeks ago, someone left two children’s books there. At least, these books found a home. Another bus rider ...
Don’t Lose a Shoe
Tonight, I saw some dried mud at a construction site and decided to walk on top of it around the huge cracks in the dirt. Unfortunately, below the surface, the mud was the perfect consistency to suck ...
How to Decrease Air Conditioner Efficiency
Back when I was showing all the fast food trash on Newsom Station Road, a reader accused me of staging the photographs because everything was so new looking. She said that “you ate it, threw it ...
More on the Retreat
Another speaker at our retreat yesterday was Shawn Bible, the Beautification Coordinator for TDOT, which spends $6 million of taxpayers’ money picking up litter off highways. And the streets are...
I’m Stump’ed
Because the builder of our subdivision planted cheap Bradford pears, we have lost lots of trees in the past few years during storms. The Bradford pears split down the middle in high winds. Luckily, ou...
What is This Litter?
At first, I thought that this was chocolate. It’s Middleton’s New! Black and Mild Wine. What? Made with Middleton pipe tobacco. Tastes great! Smells great! I’m confused? Is it wine? ...
Trash at the Bus Stop
Across the street from the bus stop is a soccer field. Sometimes on Monday mornings, there are lots of things, like food containers, in the trash can, as this morning. There were also children’s...
Are Children’s Toys Litter?
I’m amazed at the number of toys and bicycles that we find carelessly tossed aside in our neighborhood. We find bicycles left on sidewalks overnight. I could not abandon my bicycle in the drivew...
Trashed a Litterer Who Smokes
PlanetTrash was driving to work a few days ago and witnessed a smoker throwing a butt out the car window. Luckily I got the tag number and turned in the offender to TDOT. This is littering. Cigarette ...
Big Burrito
This burrito was reheating itself on the sidewalk today, when I found it on the street a few yards from US Border Cantina. I think it’s beef or possibly bean. The diner probably was walking alon...
Don’t ReUse a Priority Mail Box to Mail Anything!
The USPS has warned a good citizen that he is breaking federal law by re-using a USPS Priority Mail cardboard box in this Denver story. This is stupid. I once had my mail held at the local post office...
But What’s For Dinner?
I took this photo of a paper plate between the sidewalk and Acklen Park Drive off West End Avenue. There was a dumpster close by, so I’m assuming that it either blew out of the dumpster or someo...
Signs on Electric Wire Poles
As I’ve written in the past on this blog, it’s illegal to post signs on poles used for electrical wiring. The metal staples can be a hazard in many ways to the workers on the poles. ItR...
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
I often wonder how some litter gets where it does, when I find it. This sign for American Equipment Leasing and Finance was discovered on the rock wall along West End Avenue. At first, I thought that ...
The Sorting Hat
When I saw this traffic cone stuffed into the base of a lamp post on West End Avenue, I thought of the Sorting Ceremony from Harry Potter. The traffic cone looked well worn as the hat used to sort the...
A Blizzard of Trash
I used to enjoy a DQ Blizzard many years ago before I learned how many calories they had and how many artificial ingredients they contained. If this was a cherry-flavored Blizzard, it had 590 calories...
Boxers or Briefs: Still Litter on the Sidewalk
Here’s the top and the bottom of what I found today on the sidewalk along West End Avenue in front of an office building where a U.S. Senator has his local office. I saw this fabric on the sidew...
Litter or Food for Ants?
This pizza crust doesn’t bother me too much as litter. When I found it in the grass along West End Avenue, ants were picnicking on it. Generally, we should never feed wild animals, as they learn...
More Illegal Litter
When I drove into my driveway tonight, this NOTICE was taped to my mailbox. It is not legal to put unpaid flyers on a US mailbox. We also have a no solicitations sign posted at the entrance of our sub...
I Didn’t See This Person Drop This Trash,
But I Do Know Who Was in the Meeting… And Who Was Sitting in This Chair, But I Didn’t Pick It Up After Them I work for a wonderful small business with well educated people. A group o...