Why Dirty Streets Demoralise Society

posted on 3 January 2012 | posted in Cars and Transport


Untidy streets are a common sight in the United States. From discarded pop cans to grocery bags to cigarette butts, random garbage litters the streets of America at every turn. Not only is it an eyesore, it cannot possibly be good for the health of Americans to be surrounded by garbage even when walking down the sidewalk. While road sweepers are employed to clean up our mess, I wish we could prevent such messes in the first place. In my neighborhood, a lot of garbage comes from our local grocery store. People throw out their trash in the parking lot of the grocery store and the wind carries it down the street to our yard and sidewalks, which leaves us to clean it up or it would be all over the place. It would continue to accumulate until the sidewalk and street where we live was covered in refuse. Dirty streets make the cities and towns look gross and uncared for. The city can not keep up with all the garbage that is discarded into the streets by pedestrians and cars driving by. It would be so easy for someone to find a trash bin than to throw their garbage in the street, but people choose not to do this. It would be so much better if people would throw their garbage where it belongs-in the trash!