Cleaning up litter costs money that could be used for other important programs like schools, libraries, and parks. Litter also negatively impacts health by attracting pests that spread disease, destroys natural beauty and takes away nice places to live and play, and threatens safety when items fall from vehicles and cause accidents. Reducing litter has financial and quality of life benefits for communities.

2. • Spending money to clean up litter means it isn't
available for other important programs such as schools,
libraries, and parks.
• It costs you health. Litter attracts insects, rodents and
other pests that can bring diseases to your community
and make people sick.
• It costs you beauty. Litter destroys your community's
natural beauty and deprives you of nice places to live,
work and play.
• It costs you safety. Litter can be dangerous. Each year
people are hurt or even killed when items fall out of
vehicles causing accidents.
• http://www.litteritcostsyou.org/ccc.aspx