Littering Around Kutztown

I know that this topic was brought up in class recently, but it caught my interest so I decided to blog about it.  In the previous years, I have participated in the KU Cleanup that is held in the fall.  Me, along with various members of other sororities, fraternities, sports teams, and other volunteers, took two hours to go through the campus and the town to clean up the trash that was littered all over. And to be completely honest, and I am a little embarrassed to say this, but that was really the only times that I have had gone not just around the campus, but all of the town, to clean up the trash.  It was truly appealing to see how much trash (wrappers, paper, glass bottles, plastic bottles, alcohol bottles and cans, cigarette butts, etc.) was littered all across campus and the  whole town.  I am not talking about just an alley here or there, I am talking about every street, every alley, every parking lot, everywhere! I think a few things need to happen to help this problem.  The first and most obvious is that people should not litter as much.  Obviously, people are going to litter, but maybe there could be more public trashcans installed around the town so that people would have more incentive to throw away their trash.  Secondly, I think that there should be more events like KU Cleanup.  As I know of, there is only that event once in the fall semester and once in the spring semester.  I feel as though there should be more of these events.  Also, these events should be more publicized.  Not many people know about when this event is happening.  I feel as though that if this event was publicized not only through Bear Essentials, but through Twitter, Facebook, and posters around campus that more people would attend these events.  And most importantly, there needs to be more people interested in actually throwing away their trash and not just littering.  And I personally do not understand it.  It really is not that hard to just hold onto your trash until you reach a trash can.  I do not get why people have to throw their trash out of their car, or just throw it down when they are walking.  It really is not doing them any harm at all to just hold onto it until they reach a trashcan.  The trash is not causing them any physical pain or harm, so why can't people just wait until they see a trashcan to throw it away?  If more and more people started doing this, and started to pick up the trash that was around their area and town, there would be less and less garbage on the ground until there was none at all.