You may not realize it, but your holiday celebration this year might be creating more litter than you think. The good news is there are many ways you can reduce litter this holiday season.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, the amount of trash produced in the United […] Read More

Everyone in America Should Live in a Beautiful Community. That’s the theme behind the Keep America Beautiful 2020 National Litter Study, which examined the state of litter across the country and how it impacts us all. The findings reveal that litter is not just an isolated issue—litter is a problem that impacts neighborhoods large and […] Read More

It may seem clear that litter in rivers and waterways comes from our roadways. However, understanding the journey of litter across the state reveals just how impactful this problem is. At any given time, an estimated 88 million pieces of litter cover our roadways. Approximately 80 percent of that litter in rivers and waterways originates […] Read More

Nobody Trashes Tennessee is the State of Tennessee’s litter prevention campaign, managed by the Tennessee Department of Transportation. NTT was developed by TDOT to educate Tennesseans about the state’s litter problem, encourage proper waste disposal behavior and instill state pride. At any given time in our state, there are 100 million pieces of litter on […] Read More