Roadside litterbugs can be reported on state hotline

TO THE EDITOR:

I know that with all that?s going on in our lives today and the seriousness of the many things we have to worry about this may seem pale and way down on the list, but it is a problem we can do something about.

When I was returning home from town a few weeks ago, I was behind a green Plymouth Voyager when the driver rolled down their window and tossed a large soft drink container, about half full, onto a person?s front driveway. It was bad enough someone would do this in the first place, but it was the flagrant ease in which it was done that was troubling.

I thought to myself at the time, ?Where are the Litter Police when you need them??

To make the situation worse, it wasn?t but about two minutes later this person pulled into a driveway, parked, and started to get out. They couldn?t wait two minutes until they got to a trash can? These kinds of people have got to be right down there with the bottom feeders of our society.

Recently, I read about the couple who go out in front of their property and clean up trash on their own. I applaud them for their efforts, but this is wrong that they have to clean up after society?s pigs and that I have to be upset over something that does not have to be.

I feel a lot of people have been frustrated about this problem and as luck would have it, we actually do have some recourse that I found out about today.

There is a Tennessee Department of Transportation littering hotline at 1-877-854-8837. It?s a recording. They ask you to leave the following information: the county, the street name that the incident took place, the nearest intersecting street, vehicle description, color, tag number and, if possible, a description of the ?piggy.?

Veronica David
Short Mountain Road
McMinnville