Hazards+of+Littering

Did you know that... What do you think?
 * fast food is one of the most littered things in the United States
 * smokers say that throwing there cigarette butts is not littering
 * it takes a Styrofoam container 1 million years to decompose
 * 80% of litter in the U.S.A is made by males

People who litter don't know what litter does to the environment. People don't think the thing they litter as litter thats what people think about cigarette buds. About a thousand of animals are also killed going on to highways to get food littered.

A lot of people think that cigarettes don't harm the environment but cigarettes have harmful chemicals that can kill the animals. Cigarettes are the cause of at least a thousand fires each year and it takes about a cigarette 5 years to decompose.

Litter is anything that is not in a garbage can or a recycling bin. Have you ever thrown anything out the window like a rapper or a piece of paper? If yes then you have been littering. When you litter you make us look bad and the earth itself look bad and it destroys our planet. Please throw your garbage away and try to recycle. Heres a percentage of what makes up our trash

Food and garden - 30% Paper and cardboard -30% Glass - 10% Metal -10% Plastic - 8% Other things - 12%

More and more trash is being sent to land fills everyday. land fills are sites and giant hills of trash the more trash that are there the more it lets off methane gas and it isn't good for us. Also chemicals go into the ground and it goes into the water and that isn't good for us at all. (send it up into space =P) If people recycle more we wouldn't have to put as much garbage into land fills. For all u people who liter if you are going to liter then the least you can do it throw something out that is biodegradable so it will gradually turn into dirt someday. Some things that do not rot are called non-biodegradable they are metal and plastic.

Why do people litter? Well people litter because no one is stressing the fact about the hazards of littering. No one knows about what littering can do to us. They may think thats its a minor thing littering but in reality its a big hazard to our environment. If no one is going to stress the hazard of littering how are we going to be able to prevent littering? So please when you are done reading this article spread the word to your friends so we can help prevent hazards to our environment.

WEBSITS USED [|www.stoplittering.com] http://www.gov.pe.ca/enveng/litter/index.php3?number=61866&lang=E http://www.praguepost.cz/PPEF/09SC030219.pdf http://www.pleasebekind.com/dontlitter.html