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Why Should We Not Litter? By Taylan Keefer

Trash all over, this place looks like a dump, so gross looking ewww. This is why we should Not litter. Littering can cause tons of damage to our planet. There are many reasons not to litter it can hurts animals and humans lives, hurt our environment, and it costs money $11.5 billion each year for littering.

One big reason is obvious, it can hurt lives not just animals lives but human lives also. If we keep littering and that hurts more animals lives than animals will be extinct like cows and pigs then we won’t get any meat to eat. It can hurt animals and humans lives its a threat to our health. Broken glass can be a health hazard in places. A day at the park could turn into a dump. Us humans can step on some broken glass.

Another reason is it can hurt our environment because it pollutes our bodies of water. It pollutes our water by the wind it can blow it into the ocean, lake, river, or stream. So animals in the water can be hurt just by one piece of litter. Also here is a fact you might not of known that 38% of litter is ciggarate buds, 22% is paper, and 19% is plastic, the rest is just some other things.

The cost is a huge reason it’s $11.5 billion each year for littering, businesses pay $9 billion for clean up cost. The businesses have to pay so much money for the cleanup cost. That’s why if we don’t litter the money will lower by a lot. Also the educational people spend $250 million to clean up the litter if we keep littering that will make the cost go a lot higher so don’t litter. Additionally, the States, Cities, and Countries spend $1.3 billion for the cleanup cost. All that money can become lower if we stop littering that's all it takes is to stop littering.

Without trash all over, the planet looks nice and clean, sparkly clean earth. This is how it would look without any littering. In conclusion lets keep our planet cleaner so we don’t hurt animals or humans lives, don’t hurt our environment, and the cost of littering will lower a lot. So lets just keep our planet clean and not litter!