THE LITTER

We would seem to the casual observer to be in the age of environmentalism. Green technology and renewable energy are the focus of many news stories and fund raisers and such. People are encouraged to reduce, reuse, and recycle. It would seem as though we are living in the age of GREEN. If this is so, then who is doing all the littering.
The term ‘litterbug’ seems to be an anachronism. When I was a kid, we were taught to avoid being litterbug\s, but you don’t hear much about it anymore. We have Green-Up-Day every year where concerned citizens and their children pick up trash and put it in little green bags for later retrieval by the proper authorities. There is much fanfare and awareness raising, but why is the trash getting there in the first place? How can there be enough people so careless and downright evil that they would just throw garbage on the ground? This in the age of green that we live in. Who is doing all the littering? Is it all the work of low-lifes and druggies? So burned out that they do not care that they despoil the very earth on which we all live, or is it just everyday citizens that feel that it is okay to just drop one tiny little piece of trash?
My favorite piece of litter, which I do not intentionally seek out mind you, is the used condom or condom wrapper. Now, before you ask, I have no way of knowing without a more sophisticated laboratory if the condoms are actually used. I am just assuming they were because they are out of the wrapper and all. The fact is, they are there. I have walked the streets in populated areas extensively and I can always locate a condom or condom wrapper within 15 minutes of searching if I were to be challenged. I have not yet been so challenged, but I am always ready to be.
This phenomenon always begins in the spring. I am not sure if this is due to the mild weather making parking lot automobile relations more comfortable, or if the snow melt is revealing the evidence of winter-time relations, but I like to believe it is the former. I would like others to look out for roadside condom evidence and report back please, so that the world does not think that I hallucinate prophylactic litter. Thank you for your concern.