Litter control

G. Scott, D. M. Wiles, Degradable Hydrocarbon Polymers in Waste and Litter Control, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2002. 

Division of Recycling Litter Control Department of Waste Management 101 North 14th Street James Monroe Building, 11th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219 Telephone 804-786-8679... 

Litter control potential is indicated in Figure 6, which shows the slow degradation and disintegration of bags made from polyethylene and TDPA over a number of days. Although this is not a recommendation for litter as a disposal option, it does support the notion that as long as people are lazy and incorrigible on litter there is a way to limit its accumulation. 

Poor litter control can result in widespread contamination of the surrounding area in a way that can be offensive to all those in the neighbouihood. Problems associated with windblown litter can be minimised by the use of good operational procedures, such as the use of daily soil cover, and litter screens, while the effective sheeting of vehicles will limit problems associated with litter on the highways. Various proprietary cover materials are now available that may be used as alternatives to soil cover, and include paper-pulp preparations that may be sprayed onto the waste as a slurry, and which will, in theory, degrade when covered so that the potential for perched water tables, and preferential gas... 

Plastics waste managemeni isc-ssc-nlial due to the large volume of degradable plastics however, plastics waste is rc-c uirc-d in certain markets hence its impact on the plastics industry has been limited. I his hook details a different approach to the management of plastics waste which has many advantages. In addition, this book discusses the use of waste plastics in many applirations and covers the major routes of plastics waste disposal and litter control an ari-a which has previously lacked information... 

Geller, E. S., Applications of behavior analysis to litter control, in Behavioral Community Psychology Progress and Prospects, Glenwick, D. and Jason, L., Eds., Prager Press, New York, 1980. 

This ownership-involvement principle is supported by litter control research that found much more littering and vandalism in public than private places (Ley and Cybriwsky, 1974 Newman, 1972). When public trash receptacles include the logos of... 

DEGRADABLE HYDROCARBON POLYMERS IN WASTE AND LITTER CONTROL... 

A primary target for degradable plastics is in waste and litter control and most manufacturers of such materials have made claim to the environmental acceptability of their products as replacements for the commodity packaging polymers. A primary criterion of acceptability is cost and few hydro-biodegradable polymers can at the moment approach the hydrocarbon polymers in this respect. Consequently, in the following Sections the emphasis will be on synthetic commodity polymers with enhanced biodegradability in the natural environment. By way of clarification. 

Scott G and Wiles D M (2002) Degradable hydrocarbon polymers in waste and litter control in Degradable Polymers Principles and Applications, 2" Edition, Scott. G, ed., Kluwer Acad. Pub., Chapter 13. 

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