Negative Effects Of Littering

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Far too often when we are walking along the streets of our nation, we frequently face a shocking and disgraceful scene of rubbish being littered by irresponsible citizens. It is amazing that so many people manage to address littering as major environmental issue and yet people still litter. Littering can be defined as an action of making a place untidy with rubbish or large number of object left lying about. Among the objects that are frequently littered are cigarette ends, bus tickets, drink containers, apple cores, take-away food packaging and many more. People always mistaken by the term “litter” as small items but the truth is that it also includes abandoned vehicles, household rubbish, dumped on the roadside or in bushes. Litter is unsightly…show more content…
This clearly shows that there are many negative impacts of littering and the environment, animals and humans are heavily affected by littering. The effects of littering on humans are remarkably disturbing and often put the lives of thousands of people at risk. Littering can cause a whole range of problems for everyone living in the community. There are loads of obvious reasons from various researches that tell the people that littering can affect the health of humans as it attracts vermin such as mice and fleas, and litter is a breeding ground…show more content…
People littered mainly because they are too lazy to dump their rubbish into the bin provided near them. Siali Aban, the park manager of Bako National Park, reveals that most of the local visitors littered and sometimes tried to hide their trash in the bushes or under the boardwalk. Empty bottles and cans are easily spotted along the route to the top of the mountain despite a number of notices reminding them to dispose their litters in the proper bins. This clearly makes the area look bad and give a very negative perception to the nation and automatically reduce the number of visitors from other countries. Apart from that, the act of littering also decreases oxygen levels when it decays in water and it also kills river. Water is such a precious resource and the humans depending heavily on the water from river. But the resources are limited nowadays and to ruin the rivers and seas by littering is definitely not a wise thing to do. There are misconceptions about what form of litter as many people think it is okay to throw any organic items such as banana peels and apple cores anywhere but in reality, throwing garbage no matter it is organic or otherwise, is littering and the environment is adversely affected by it. Littering can also cause fires and unfortunately sends a clear message that the people who litter do not really care about

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