How Throwing Trash Out Your Car Window Hurts the Animals

When people throw trash out the window of their car, what are they thinking about as they do it?  When you throw a single piece of garbage out your window, you are harming or even killing an innocent animal.  Even when you throw cigarette butts out the window you can be killing small mammals from the toxins in it.  160 million tons of trash is thrown on highways each year, 40% of it paper products that is killing the animals.  Over 14,000 animals are admitted annually from being hurt by the trash on the roads.  When you throw bottles out the window plastic, and glass you are putting the animals in danger.  Foxes and other large animals cut their feet on the broken glass and could die from loosing blood.  Small mammals can crawl into the plastic bottles and get trapped for days and die.  This is a huge issue all over the world and i think they we should all try harder to fix it.  Don't throw  your trash out a window throw it in a trash can.

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