Word: litters
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DISPOSABLE BOTTLES. Until Democratic Senatorial Candidate Don Riegel acknowledged having had an affair with an office worker in 1969, the greatest interest in the Michigan election was stirred by a proposition to ban throw-away bottles and cans, which make up an increasing proportion of the nation's litter. Disposable-bottle bans are also on the ballot in Colorado and Massachusetts, where approval will bring a deposit of at least 5? on every soft-drink and beer container, and in Maine, where the voters must decide if they want the bottle ban enacted last April by the state legislature...
...Oregon officials insist that the state's three-year-old ban on no deposit-no return containers has significantly thwarted litter bugs, and a similar law in Vermont reduced can and bottle litter on the highways by 76% during the first year it was in effect, cutting cleanup costs...
...like to raise a final question--it's about our environment. Do we care about the broken glass and rusting cans that litter our parks, playgrounds, and streets, discouraging parents and kids from using them and endangering those who do? Litter was down in Vermont and Oregon after their bottle bills passed...
...proposed law to ban flip-top cans and place a five-cent deposit on most soda and beer cans and bottles. Notwithstanding the aggressive advertising campaign the container interests have waged against the bill, using what amounts to scare tactics, it would be a significant step toward reducing the litter of metal and glass that is beginning to blanket the landscape...
...tradition or simply from the weight of practical circumstances. A Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party does not adequately explain some of the darker aspects of China's modern experience: the nearly irrational passion of such campaigns as the Cultural Revolution, or Mao's tendency to litter the political arena with the corpses of former friends. By ignoring these parts of the Chinese reality, or treating them as derivations of the past, Solomon sometimes appears a bit apologetic for the China of Mao. Nevertheless, his book should help to clarify the traditional image of China in the American...