Word: littering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beer drinkers are forcing Boston's Arnold Arboretum to face for the first time the problems of litter and overuse...
...area was almost completely white with litter," Gordon P. DeWolf, horticulturist at the Arboretum, said yesterday. "It took four men and two trucks two days to clean it all up," DeWolf added...
...city's tawdriness such a familiar symbol of the nation's urban mess, each Saran-wrapped view of it is likely to jar audiences with a shock of nonrecognition. Where has Greene hidden the psychologically bombed civilian population? Where have all the smog, graffiti and litter gone...
...effort to stem the litter-tide, Oregon last October became the first state to ban all no-deposit, no-return bottles, and cans with pop tops. Oregonians must now pay a 2? to 10? deposit on beer and soft-drink containers. A total of 37 other states-including California-are considering similar legislation. Before they act, however, they must consider a practical question: Does Oregon's law work...
...amphitheater, which once resounded to the agonies of the 1968 Democratic Convention, is quiet except for the occasional clang of a dropped wrench or the grunts of car owners as they push their treasures up the ramp into their trailers. An old porter pushes a broom through the thick litter of the International Speed Custom Cycle Auto Show...