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We just had a great trip to the outer banks down Hwy 12 to Hatteras and Ocracoke and back up to Kill Devil Hills. Taking Hwy 64 going and Hwy 158, Hwy 301 and Hwy 561 coming back home, we encountered some beautiful countryside with huge fields of corn, peanuts, soybeans and cotton growing and charming communities with beautiful homes and neatly landscaped yards.

Among all this beauty, we saw lots of litter along the roadside, in parking lots, along the streets, on the beach and the riverbanks. We even saw folks mowing over litter while doing their yard work.

In the 549 miles we traveled, we saw no one littering, no litter blowing out of truck beds or car windows, trash trucks or trash containers. Yet, we saw lots and lots of people but not even one pick up a piece of litter.