Trash On Our Roadsides
What can we do to make our roadsides, parking
lots etc., cleaner?
8-09 Several "clean
-up" campaigns have been led township wide in neighborhoods .
These are wonderful efforts on behalf of all the citizens
involved and with great support from our township. It is a
positive, proactive approach to solving a problem and it
encourages neighbors to get together - and the more they get
together, the better . This unity will then help them come
together to solve other problems as well. The only
drawbacks that I see is that there are sometimes dangerous
items ( sharp, rusted or toxic for example), that it
is dangerous to be out in & near the roads and that ultimately
it might miss encouraging a township plan for dealing with the
trash on our streets that comprehensively covers all
neighborhoods and business districts, not just the ones where
neighbors were united through these outstanding efforts.
But huge kudos to every organizer & volunteer who stepped
forward to deal with the problem.
4-3-06 Just read an
article about a state program that included a campaign to of
awareness as to the costs of litter as well as a hotline
to report littering when it is seen. A huge part of
prevention was convincing the police to write tickets for
littering and to get them to enforce it .
Our township has
instituted a program in some areas where the Montgomery County
DUI service "volunteers" come, I believe once a month, to pick
up trash in some particularly difficult areas. The workers pick
up the trash & then leave the large bags
which are picked up by Township trash trucks
3-31-06 We need to find out what is working
in other townships - Down on the main line I see very little
trash along one of the busiest thoroughfares, Lancaster Pike and
wonder why our roads don't look like that . We will have
to find out how they do that and report back.
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THE
TOWNSHIP HAS LAWS
TOWNSHIP CODE SECTION 108
http://www.abington.org/info/codebook_part2_ch108.htm
OR HERE
NUISANCES §
108-1. Prohibited acts.
108-9.
Disposition of rubbish.
A. No paper, trash, rubbish, ashes, junk, waste or discarded
materials of any kind shall
be thrown, deposited or dumped into any ravine, ditch or gutter,
upon any road, street
or highway or on any public place within the limits of the
Township of Abington.
108-5. Refuse.
A. No house refuse, offal, pomace,
garbage, dead animals, decaying vegetable matter
or organic
waste substances of any kind shall be thrown or deposited
or allowed to
drain into any ravine, ditch or gutter, upon any road,
street or highway, into any waters
of the Township of Abington or on any public place within
the limits of the township, or
upon private property, vacant or occupied,
and be permitted to remain exposed upon
the surface of the ground; and no
putrid or decaying animal and vegetable matter shall
be kept in any house, cellar or
adjoining buildings in an unsanitary manner on any
premises.
B. Refuse receptacles shall not be
placed at the curb for collection more than 12 hours
before disposal time and must be
removed from the curb at least 12 hours after the
same have been emptied.
108.1
E
(It is illegal :)
To
throw, drop or place,
or cause to be thrown, dropped or placed,
upon any of the public highways, sidewalks
or public places within the township, or
upon any porch, step or yard of any house or store along
any of the public highways within the township, any
posters, circulars, bills, handbills or other advertising matter
of any kind or description whatever.
108.1 F
(It is illegal :) To
throw, drop or place, or cause to be thrown, dropped or placed,
upon any of the highways, sidewalks or
other public places within the township, any paper, paper boxes or
literature of like kind or nature, or waste matter of any kind
whatsoever.
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THE
STATE HAS
LAWS, TOO
18
Pa.C.S.A. § 6501.
Scattering rubbish.(a) Offense defined.--A
person is guilty of an offense if he: 1) causes any waste paper,
......or rubbish, ....... upon the land
of another
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