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Re: Legality of litter and all that

Jan 24, 2003, 10:56

Their definitions of litter aren't too helpful! The ENCAMS definition is subjective and could apply to anything from a dropped fag packet to a fallen standing stone. Taking that as our definiton would just shift the debate from "what is litter?" to "what is waste?" and "what is the wrong place?"...

The EPA definition, on the other hand, shifts the debate to "what is defacement?". My dictionary talks in terms of "to spoil the surface or appearance of". Seems wrong, somehow, that it's OK to leave trash, so long as it's well hidden! And it doesn't address permanancy, so orienteering markers would be just as bad as crisp packets?! (I think one would have to read the whole act to get anything useful).

With encams finding an average of 1500 items of litter per km of our beaches, and the total litter problem being measured in terms of millions of tonnes, the overall contribution of geocaching one way or the other seems minuscule, whether you allow initiatives such as 'cash in, trash out' to offset the caches themselves, or not.

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