Let’s Talk Trash! JAN / FEB 2021 ©2020 - 2021 The Keenan Group, Inc
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With every step, you hear the crunch of a plastic bottle, and garbage floats through the air. Cars drive by, and more trash flies out their windows and onto the sidewalk. Trash cans sit on every corner, but the gentleman sitting next to you drops garbage onto the ground instead. This is modern urban China, where waste is abundant and littering has become the norm.
Imagine a place where trash covers the streets like a thin blanket of dirty snow.
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Field studies have also shown that people are more inclined to litter in already littered areas. This, in combination with a lack of public moral education, has led to a prevalent copycat behavior. If one well-to-do resident can throw his trash in the streets guilt-free, so can the next. This attitude is so common, Chinese residents refer to the behavior as “Suibian,” a word that translates to “doing as one pleases” or “without concern.” A survey on China’s highway littering problem in Shanghai displayed that 68% of car drivers and 95% of truck drivers throw their trash out the windows of their moving vehicles. Participants in the survey claim to do it simply out of convenience. Imagine if everyone takes pride and responsibility in their communities all over the world, littering could be part of our past and NOT future!
Remember, Littering is Lazy, Obnoxious Behavior!
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