Litter

Don’t be a litterbug I would always look around my neighborhood, school, and various places that I would hang out in and see trash. I always wondered why the place I lived in consumed so much litter. It was so easy for us as a community to just properly dispose of our trash, but we never did. All around school there were candy wrappers, biscuitville bags, plastic water bottles and other various items that never seemed to make their way into the trash cans. In my neighborhood there were cans,…

picking up the litter along with the leaving it on the beach. This scenario postulates over collective responsibility and whether one person’s individual actions make a difference to the overall outcome. I will argue from the stance that one is obliged to pick up the litter, regardless of others’ inactions as each of us have an individual moral responsibility, and in not picking up the litter you are causing greater harm to the planet than one would by taking the time to take the litter home…

How to Train Your Kitten to Use the Litter Box “Smelly cat... Smelly cat ...i t's not your fault.” Nobody wants a smelly cat or a smelly house, right Phoebe Buffay? Imagine your boss or friends dropping by the house when suddenly you smell something ... fishy! A big turn-off! Don't let this happen. If you have a new kitten, get him to potty training boot camp fast! 1. Before taking home the new kitten, let the veterinarian check him thoroughly first for diseases or parasites. Bringing home a…

Everyone knows how bad littering is for the environment, yet they continue to do it anyway. The article A Couple Of Really Neat Guys is about Dave Barry and his optometrist working to stop litterers in Miami. They dress like superheros and become “Captain Tidy” and “Neatness Man”. In the humours high comedy article A Couple Of Really Neat Guys, Dave Barry uses hyperbole and situational irony to convey that littering is bad for the environment. To show how much he hates littering and litterers,…

affects the environment in which we live in and of animals, too. By littering you're basically hurting or even killing animals that you adore because wastes can be dangerous to them. PETA, an American animal rights organization, wrote an article about litter. In the article it showed pictures of dead whales, and because there were so much plastics in their body they didn't make it. The…

lots of them have even died from the marine pollution that's getting put into the ocean. A lot of animals are getting killed/injured by ocean pollution and its not just litter that's harming them. Many chemicals can also be released from runoff or even marine mammal carcasses. One of the animals that is getting harmed by the litter is sea turtles. A large amount of sea turtles are getting killed by eating plastic. According to “Floating Plastic Being Eaten By Sea Turtles” studies show that over…

lowered the amount of litter in the environments. Littering can pollute the ecosystems in our environments around us and the wildlife living in the area…

Although smoking rates have declined, cigarettes are the most littered item in the world today with over 4.5 trillion cigarettes littered worldwide each year making up almost 40% of litter (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015). Dropping cigarette butts and cigar tips to the ground, putting them in garden beds, and disposing of them in waterways is littering. The belief amongst some smokers that cigarettes are biodegradable is incorrect, most filters in cigarettes (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015) contain toxic…

Cute, adorable, fluffy, and awesome are some of the words we use to describe our pet cats. But there is something very odd about the smell of their pee and poop like an unstoppable force going haywire inside your nostrils. Let’s find out the reason behind the strong smell of their excretion. Cat Pee: Why Does It Smell So Bad? Cats survived in various circumstances for many generations and one of their hidden ability is to use water efficiently than most animals. Their physiology extracts every…

toss litter around like a game of basketball, except there’s no hoop around to aim it in (simile and irony)! Although it is a personal choice to litter and be impatient to locate a trashcan, lack of trash bins for disposable waste is a major issue. Let’s say you go out for a walk with a bag of chips. You’re out walking and once you finish the chips, you look around and realize you’re a hopeless puppy (metaphor) - there’s no public trash can anywhere! You have two options: you either litter like…