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Originally Posted by Zarley
The fact that littering was socially acceptable up until the 1970s is pretty amazing to me. I remember my mom saying that people would throw rubbish from their cars to the side of the highway without a second thought.
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Yeah, I remember the big anti-littering push of the 70s. I only caught the tail-end of the era when littering with socially acceptable, but it was nasty. My grandparents had a cottage near a beach on Lake Erie, and the sand would be littered with drink cups, chip bags, coke bottles, etc. People would just get up and walk away from their trash without giving it a thought.