fast food wrappers--proposal

[Guest guest]

how the fastfood nation mentality thinks

> nothing of tossing the wrapers and rubbish everywhere but in

> the proper place.

 

I spent half a day here in Albuquerque picking up trash along I-25

as a community service project (not criminal) through this group I

belong to and I noticed that the vast majority of the trash was fast

food wrappers. I thought it would be cans and bottles from soft

drinks, but I was wrong. I propose that all fast food vendors be

charged a TAX on their product to pay for the cleanup since it is

their product that is literally littering our highways. The tax can

go to pay the non-profit groups who pick up their product and they

can then use the money for charitable purposes. Just my $.02, but

now I'm thinking that the people who purchase the products will

justify throwing it out the window as a means to support the non-

profits and the fast food companies will want to write the tax off

as a charitable donation........hmmmmmmm.....just can't win, can

we???

[Guest guest]

I like you idea, but you are probably right in thinking they

will just use it to further their image and as a tax write-off;

Ronald McDonald Houses come to mind here.

Perhaps non-profit groups could collect the rubbish, divide

the wrappers up in separate bags to show which fastfood

joint had the most of its product tossed along the roadside,

then it could be used as evidence for local authorities to

fine them some non-deductable penalty charge.

It is so true that the more fastfood places in a town the

more litter one sees along the streets and highways.

Makes sense that the type of person who has so little

regard for their own health would have very little regard

for the health of the planet.

 

~ PT ~

 

The creator made man able to do everything -- talk, run,

look and hear.Ê He was not satisfied, though, until man

could do just one thing more -- laugh.Ê And so man laughed

and laughed, and the creator said " Now you are fit to live. "

~ Apache Myth

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, " Sheryl " <ssarndt>

wrote:

I propose that all fast food vendors be

> charged a TAX on their product to pay for the cleanup since it is

> their product that is literally littering our highways. The tax

can

> go to pay the non-profit groups who pick up their product and they

> can then use the money for charitable purposes. Just my $.02, but

> now I'm thinking that the people who purchase the products will

> justify throwing it out the window as a means to support the non-

> profits and the fast food companies will want to write the tax off

> as a charitable donation........hmmmmmmm.....just can't win, can

> we???