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Letter: Teaching adults is the challenge

The Columbian
Published: August 18, 2013, 5:00pm

In an Aug. 15 letter, Jerry A. Lund asks “Ticket those who litter.” The everyday litter is nothing compared to the eight days of fireworks debris that piles up on the roads and in our neighborhoods in July. The city of Battle Ground, with limited budget for such things, does a really good job of sweeping up the mess. If there are litter laws, why are people allowed to litter not only public places, but also their neighbor’s property? I still find pieces of fireworks this late in August that blow out of the trees and off my roof.

Not unlike Lund, I often wonder what can be done about people who litter. Once a week my great-granddaughter and I walk the half-mile from our home to the grocery store. We pick up a garbage bag of litter each week. It is always the same type of litter: latte containers, candy bar wrappers, fast-food containers, old garage sale boxes, etc.

It doesn’t appear to be children who do the littering, so therein lies the problem. The kids learn not to litter at school. Who has the time or money to spend policing the adults?

Julee Piper

Battle Ground

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