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Anyone who would refuse to have their pet spayed or neutered because of not wishing to deny them the "joy" of raising a family, must have cat litter or dog kibble for brains...
Clean Up Drive. Instead of concentrating only on containers, Washington's residents ratified a "Model Litter Control Act" in 1972. It was designed to stop all littering through education and citizen participation programs. An especially created Department of Ecology has organized drives to clean up beaches, cities, rivers and mountaintops. To prepare Spokane for Expo '74, for example, 78,000 residents took part in a three-phase litter pickup project that collected 500 tons of trash. The basic theme is pounded home by posters demanding ZERO LITTER, bumper stickers reading LITTER is NO ACCIDENT and even T shirts...
Washington's law also imposes fines of up to $250 for littering. Owners of cars and boats caught without litterbags in their vehicles must pay a $10 fine. Such fines help pay for Washington's program. But the bulk of the funds-$650,000 this year-comes from a .015% tax levied against the gross sales of industries that contribute to litter: bottlers, newspaper publishers, paper manufacturers, supermarket chains. The industries do not object. F.N. ("Mac") McCowan, executive secretary of Washington's Food Dealers Association, explains their docility with a nervous reference to Oregon...
...also works. In checks along 30 one-mile-long sections of roads in July 1973, the Washington state highways department picked up an average of 1,080 items of litter per mile. Now it is gathering only about 100 items per mile-a reduction of more than...
Other states anxious to halt the spread of litter are clearly impressed. California, for instance, may well pass its own law next year. As the legislation is now shaping up, the state will bor row more heavily from Washington than Oregon (but will nonetheless ban pull-tabs on cans as a safety hazard). Though industry opposition is expected, a state-sponsored study strongly suggests that most Californians-and probably most other Americans as well-are ready to accept curbs on the throw-away habit that blights the land...