Word: litter
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...then pass by one of those brown wooden national landmark signs indicating the proximity of the cabin where Robert Frost lived. Picnic tables and litter bins help commemorate the entrance to the road. Stopping to read the sign, you feel like a reverent tourist at Lexington and Concord or the Statue of Liberty. At the end of the dirt road which climbs about a mile through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads...
...third notable is Chico the Bum. He has a wheelbarrow with an enormous carton in it, inscribed in various-colored crayons, "The Traveling Litter Basket." He roams the town cleaning out gutters and picking up trash at certain stores, all for free...
...those few seconds, the aluminum ring atop a pop-top can of beer or soda fulfills its function and becomes instant junk. Garbage men hate the rings because the sharp edges can cut. So do barefooted hippies and strollers on the beach. So do conservationists, who lament the litter. To at least one man, however, pop-top rings are a source of inspiration and income-and the raw material for a revival of a medieval fashion...
...environment theme can have competitive disadvantages. Coca-Cola is running a series of messages urging customers to use returnable bottles and thus reduce litter. But Pepsi-Cola came out with an ad showing its own nonreturnable bottles. The punch line: "You'll never get a second-hand bottle from...
...compared with the rats and garbage that infest ghetto slums. Yet both DDT and rats directly degrade the quality of U.S. life. Nevertheless, some aspects of the environmental problem are clearly more pressing than others. For example, public-health and land-use planning should rank higher than campaigns against litter and noise. Curbing carbon monoxide in cities is more important than saving caribou in Alaska. For environmentalists, the new challenge is how to retain ecology's holistic view of man and nature while yet recognizing that the movement will soon fade unless it sets priorities that millions of Americans...