New study reveals America's surprising most-littered item: 'The largest single type of litter'
9.7 billion of them are littered in the country annually.
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9.7 billion of them are littered in the country annually.
In many places around the world, littering is usually accidental, with one glaring exception: cigarette butts. Maybe we need to add a little secret sauce to anti-littering campaigns.
Seth Tuler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA and Senior Researcher at the Social and Environmental Research Institute, Shelburne, MA. He works in the areas of risk governance, public participation, and social issues in hazard management. From 2003 to 2006, he served on the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste. Together with Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Webler, Sharon Friedman, and Roger Kasperson, Tuler provided input to the Blue Ribbon C...
Thomas Webler Thomas Webler is a founding member and senior researcher at the Social and Environmental Research Institute (SERI). He is also an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Keene State College, New Hampshire. He served on the Nuclear Energy Agency’s Forum for Stakeholder Confidence from 2002 to 2008. From 2013 to 2016 he worked to help the Department of Energy develop a process to develop a consent-based siting process. His research specializes in bringing local and expert knowledge together in collaborative ways to find solutions to problems of environmental managem...