Campaign aims to pick up litter in ND oil patch
April 17, 2012 at 4:30 am in Grand Forks Herald
A group representing companies working in North Dakota’s oil patch says it’s launching an initiative to pick up trash along roadsides and in communities in the western part of the state. Continue Reading
There’s one solution that’d help a lot. Increase the fine to a mandatory $500.00 fine. And… offer $250 of that to anyone who reports a litterbug. Not the solution, but people might think twice if they know that car behind them can make an easy $250 if they call them in.
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And how is the tattle-tale going to prove the garbage came from who he claims it came from? You gonna finger-print or DNA-test litter?
Please start thinking about how this would really work. You’re angry at at co-worker–you turn them in for littering. Didn’t get that raise? The boss is a litterbug too. Someone driving faster that what you think is prudent? More litter. That yappy dog next door? That family litters.
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If someone was ambitious enough, they could start up a private company and start doing this. Have the oil company pay them. I bet they would make a killing.
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