Street Litter Continues to be a Major Issue

Because our sewer system is a combined system, meaning that storm water and sanitation sewage use the same drainage system, Huntington's endemic street litter problem is even more of a health and safety issue. Our city government must get control of street litter! Education and enforcement must be initiated now!

Street Litter

Street litter, such as plastic bags, cups, candy wrappers and cigarette butts, are washed from the street by storm water and end up floating in area streams and lakes. Many animals mistake plastic for food and, as a result, become ill. Plastic can take hundreds of years to degrade and so will continue to contaminate our waterways and threaten their inhabitants.

Solutions:

• Never throw garbage into the street or down storm drains.
• Dispose of all garbage, including cigarette butts and fast food containers, in garbage cans or waste receptacles.
• Adopt your own block and periodically collect any garbage that might be washed into a storm drain.
• Ask your family, friends and neighbors to do the same.

Do your part, and demand that our city government does its part! The future of our hometown is dependent upon our elected officials having the will and political courage to solve this, and other, long-standing community issues.

Call your City Councilperson and tell them you want the littering laws enforced now!