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Trash, dirty streets and litter, say city leaders, lower citizen pride in the city and can hurt local businesses--which no one wants to do in a recession-bound economy...
Both Wolf and Reeves say the litter problem is worst on the weekends in Harvard and Central Square because of the substantial increase of pedestrian and auto traffic. But Reeves maintains this is no excuse for a dirty city...
Reeves says that since he and Central Square business leaders began bringing attention to the litter problem at a recent city council meeting, the area's appearance has improved, at least temporarily...
Much more dangerous is pollution caused by the poultry industry, the most dominant in Arkansas. Growers have been dumping tons of dried chicken excrement, known as litter, on croplands in the northwestern part of the & state. "We're well past the land's capacity to accept the waste," says Robert Leflar, a Sierra Club official; he and others fear the litter will seep through porous limestone and contaminate streams and groundwater. Clinton in 1990 appointed an animal-waste task force to look into the problem (a favorite tactic: his first move in almost any crisis is to appoint a task...
...price we pay is cleanliness. Lego body parts litter the carpet, Play-Doh cans get kicked under the desks, and pieces of our Cornhusker State puzzle end up in our shoes. "This place is a sty," we've been told...