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The Abington Citizens Network
where Abington, PA residents can share ideas and join forces to build a better community

 

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
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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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