Litter left at this Top End creek after an Australia Day party causes 'despair' as locals clean up the mess. Here are some ideas to stop people leaving rubbish at beauty spots, especially on public holidays.
The drink containers went to the local Downs Syndrome Association, which collects them and claims the 10c deposit as a fundraiser."On the one hand, there's all these people yelling at us about how we're not looking after their planet. And then on the next hand, they just dropped their plastic food wrapper on the ground.Mr O'Malley is always prepared for other people's litter on his bush walks.
"People litter if they think that others have kind of trashed an area or it's not worth preserving," he says."People are not likely to throw the first cup down." "People will always add the trash that's already on the ground, they will not be the first one to throw it down."Professor Sarre cited broken windows theory, where a building with a broken window will continue to see windows broken.
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