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Sun Journal North Carolina’s highways are facing a growing problem of litter-overload with papers and packaging piling up everywhere you go. It has seemingly reached a saturation point as county and state leaders are admitting embarrassment at how visitors to the state must see us, and action is beginning to happen to fight the problem. The littering comes from numerous sources: people simply throwing their trash out the window as they drive along is the best known – and probably the hardest to catch. You see their signature everywhere – at butt-strewn intersections where they just fini...

As spring approaches many of us will be looking forward to getting out in a local forest and walk the trails, communing with nature. Look! There goes a deer bounding through the brush! Listen to that woodpecker. And listen! Isn’t that a tanager? Over there a pair of squirrels indulge a game of chase right beside that – isn’t that a Venus flytrap? And just look at that great big couch, half sunk in the water. And that one. that one. It isn’t just the highways. Our state and national forests are becoming dumping grounds where the shadier contractors and homeowners freely toss out immens...