March 29th - Earth Hour tonight at 8:30. I want the same kind of attention for litter. A dedicated day and time when everyone is told to not litter and there's massive publicity leading up to such a world event. Not littering is exponentially better for the environment than turning one's lights off for one hour once a year. Wanted: Influential interests to help make No Litter Day a reality.
Contact Litter Prevention Program and let's get it going!
Contact Litter Prevention Program and let's get it going!
Where is this scene? 1) Near a river 2) In a public park 3) Outside a hospital 4) Behind a restaurant/bar
If you read the caption, above, and guessed that this scene was taken immediately outside the door of a downtown hospital, you'd be right. I took this photo yesterday to illustrate what's lacking in this whole quit smoking drive, which pushes tobacco litter outdoors into uncontrolled settings absent of ash receptacles. I provide a service that is sorely needed, that of simply talking nicely to smokers and giving them an ashtray. Then they are more than willing to cooperate with your anti-littering drives. No bylaw that chases smoking outside should prevent the installation of ash receptacles, but that is the unfortunate result of most smoking bans for areas around entranceways. (March 27, 2014)
What a horrible and frightening fate befell those aboard Malaysian jetliner Flt 370. My sympathies to all their loved ones. CNN today began examining the role of ocean garbage in the search crisis. I had wondered aloud in the early going how long before the focus would turn to marine litter. A patch of man's garbage the size of a small island has impeded the search for crash debris and answers for the grieving families. Is this not a stark admission that we are smothering our planet with garbage. A life-and-death reason to stop littering?
A positive litter reminder popped into my head. Three words "Contain your litter". And I learned a new word for "litterbug" from the UK the other day. It's "grub". (March 24, 2014)
| This journal is a window into the brain of a litter prevention zealot, a new feature on this website. Random thoughts. Tweets, really, but with more character(s). Always great to hear from folks. Find me on Twitter @white_sheila or click HERE to email me. | Could Wrigley's reluctance to deal head-on with chewing gum litter education and eradication have anything to do with industry numbers in the news today? Chewing gum consumption has decreased by 11 per cent over the past four years as children trend away from gum. (March 21, 2014) |
| I gave a guy not one, but two, extinguishing portable, reusable ashtrays. One he could use in the forest, he volunteered. Smoking in forests, I cringe. Today news of a devastating fire ravaging 50 hectares of endangered species habitat in Manila's mountains. Suspected cause? A littered cigarette butt. READ ... and weep. (March 21, 2014)  On Location during filming  ANSWER: Cigarette butts |  A well-run afternoon of filming for "The Dark Side of the Chew", a documentary on chewing gum litter slated for TVO viewing later this year. Here I am (above) with environmental filmmaker Andrew Nisker (centre), of Take Action Films, and Ian (left) worker of the lens magic. (March 20, 2014) Very excited. Today I will be the subject of filming for a documentary on gum litter by noted globe-trotting, garbage-tracking Toronto filmmaker Andrew Nisker. Chewing gum is the world's number two ranked item of small litter. Can you guess what is Number One? Hint: See photo, left. (March 19, 2014) |
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Positively creative! There's something catchy about the City of Rochester's logo - trying to make things "a litter bit better." I love creativity, the sure road to solving problems. Be creative. One of my favourite Cole Porter songs says it all: "Use Your Imagination". What do I imagine? I imagine I can make a difference. And you can,too. Where does your imagination take you ? (March 18, 2014)
Yesterday I knocked on a neighbour’s door and asked her to dispense with the multiple huge mounds of dog pooh straddling the property line in the front yard. She said ‘yes’. Big, friendly, 3-year-old boxer named Leo was the culprit. Not his normal practice. Headline: Canine breaks jail, neighbour cries 'foul'. (March 18, 2014)
Yesterday I knocked on a neighbour’s door and asked her to dispense with the multiple huge mounds of dog pooh straddling the property line in the front yard. She said ‘yes’. Big, friendly, 3-year-old boxer named Leo was the culprit. Not his normal practice. Headline: Canine breaks jail, neighbour cries 'foul'. (March 18, 2014)
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