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Bitter About Litter

Wallowing in other people's trash can give you a bad attitude.

Al Diamon
Bitter About Litter
It takes at least an hour and a quarter to drive from my home in Carrabassett Valley to the nearest Starbucks. But a couple of minutes walk from my front door, I came across a discarded Starbucks cup. Within a mile, I found three more. The closest Dunkin’ Donuts is nearly forty minutes away. Six empty Dunkin’ containers soaked in the ditches in my immediate neighborhood. In less time than it would take me to reach a Taco Bell — there’s one about seventy miles from here — I came across three of its wrappers. I guess they really are “good to go.”
[For the rest of this story, see the May 2008 issue of Down East.]

 

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