When I was a child in the 1960s and perhaps 1970s, there was a major PR push to get people in America to stop littering. The slogan was, "Keep America Beautifu

When I was a child in the 1960s and perhaps 1970s, there was a major PR push to get people in America to stop littering. The slogan was, "Keep America Beautiful" and it was complete with TV commercials and other vehicles of propaganda. My impression is that it worked. Not completely, but awareness increased and a majority of people quit throwing their cola bottles our of the car and such. The one thing that people didn't stop doing so much is throwing their cigarette butts onto the ground. Chewing gum is still a problem as well. When I would coach baseball (for my then-young kids) I would come home from the field with gum in my shoe. Just a few weeks ago at an airport I looked around for an outlet at a bar and noticed many wads of gum stuck under the bar. Why people still do these things is a mystery to me.