Officials: Honor National Pollution Prevention Week by not littering
Sep 24, 2015, 11:00 AM
(Facebook/Don't Trash Arizona)
PHOENIX — Officials with Don’t Trash Arizona want to remind citizens this week is National Pollution Prevention Week — which includes not littering.
Kelly Taft with the organization citizens should avoid deliberate littering as well as littering by not keeping track of loose trash.
“Not only to refrain from deliberate littering but also to be careful about that loose trash that might be in your car,” she said. “Things like straw wrappers, plastic bags, grocery receipts, things that blow out of your car when you’re driving with your windows down.”
Taft said unintentional littering makes up 45 percent of all trash, which costs Valley taxpayers nearly $3 million a year to clean up.
“ADOT crews currently remove about 425 bags of trash every single weekday from our Maricopa County freeways,” she said. “That equates to about 1.2 million pounds every year.”