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 Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:48 am
I love my street after a rainy day. i find it beautifully peaceful, but not when i trip over old empty fireworks in the street gutter. then i started noticing cigerette butts and pieces of metal and cans...suddenly my street looked like a landfill no one cared about. i find garbage in my yard everyday of products we dont even buy! so what can i do? anything? and is there anyway i could somehow get my neighbors involved, or get them to care?
P.S. still treating a bleeding knee from tripping over the fireworks in the gutter.
Thanks, Blessed Be.
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:46 pm
You can try to take legal action. As you know, littering is illegal. Otherwise, try posting signs in your yard or make it a community effort to stop people from taking away the rights of this earth. Good Luck. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:14 am
Well, we sometimes have trash in our ditches in our front yard, but most of the time when we find trash in there, it's from garbage/recycle bins. A lot of the time, people fill up their bins too much, so when wind comes by, it blows it into our yards. To deal with this, I just pick it up and put it in our garbage or recycle bin.
I can understand if it's because of wind, but if you think that people are littering carelessly, then I would take action. Perhaps if you know your neighbors well, you could talk with them to get a trash collecting program started. Maybe assign people to pick up trash on your street, trade off shifts, etc. You never know if it will help unless you try! Good luck 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:04 am
Actually, what you guys said was just what I was thinking <3
Even if you don't know your neighbors well, you could try little flyers about the trash in the street.
I'd also try to organise regular Neighborhood Cleanups, to get people involved.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:12 am
So far i'm liking these ideas. thanks so much ^_^
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:39 am
Jack_Teh_Monkey Actually, what you guys said was just what I was thinking <3 Even if you don't know your neighbors well, you could try little flyers about the trash in the street. I'd also try to organise regular Neighborhood Cleanups, to get people involved. If you're going to do flyers, make sure you put at the top, in big letters: EVEN IF YOU DON'T READ THIS LEAFLET, AT LEAST RECYCLE IT D:
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:52 am
Yes, i would have to agree with it.
try to clean it up, and do it with a group of friends.
put flyers up, like someone else said.
then, try to get more people to help every time.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:11 pm
organization_13_gurl I love my street after a rainy day. i find it beautifully peaceful, but not when i trip over old empty fireworks in the street gutter. then i started noticing cigerette butts and pieces of metal and cans...suddenly my street looked like a landfill no one cared about. i find garbage in my yard everyday of products we dont even buy! so what can i do? anything? and is there anyway i could somehow get my neighbors involved, or get them to care? P.S. still treating a bleeding knee from tripping over the fireworks in the gutter. Thanks, Blessed Be.
and first you should start out with just picking up as much as you can and recycling everything you see like crazy [including paper]
then you should try and het the people around you involved.
just ask them if they would be willing tooh help just with their yard and it would be greatly appreciated.
if that goes well, from there you should move tooh the streets, yards, and around stores.
hope it works out well =D
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:53 am
around my apartment is ok. it's when i walk down the street and into the park the day after that it sometimes looks bad. it seems to be getting better, though.
i question the flyer thing, because it's more paper. but, shat else can you do? go door to door and annoy them? (ok, that would be me, if i got around to it). i don't like the idea of cleaning up after people, but i used to go around our street with my first ex-mother-in-law and pick up. because she was in her late 70's, it laid a guilt trip on the neighbors (hehe). i can't get away with that now. it's just not in my personality.
good luck.
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:25 am
Thanks everyone. the streets are starting to look cleaner. i started picking up random trash, and others who saw me got the hint
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:54 pm
You could always take pictures of the street with the garbage, clean it up, and take pictures of the street clean. Then you could go house to house and show the people the pictures from your camera (to save paper instead of using leaflets) of the before and afters. Maybe next time they see trash they'll pick it up and put it in a bin, or think twice the next time they litter.
Either way, showing them the pictures does some good because there's less trash on your street.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:26 pm
TomV Jack_Teh_Monkey Actually, what you guys said was just what I was thinking <3 Even if you don't know your neighbors well, you could try little flyers about the trash in the street. I'd also try to organise regular Neighborhood Cleanups, to get people involved. If you're going to do flyers, make sure you put at the top, in big letters: EVEN IF YOU DON'T READ THIS LEAFLET, AT LEAST RECYCLE IT D:
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