COUNTY CAMPAIGNS TO GET BUTTS OFF THE CURB.Byline: Anne Burke Daily News Staff Writer What has about 10 million people - and more than 1 million butts? The streets of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County. And when it rains, the beaches of Los Angeles County. Every month, people drop 1,094,296 cigarette butts on sidewalks, curbs and gutters. We empty car ashtrays onto streets 169,000 times a month. And litter: We drop 888,706 gum wrappers In data mining and treatment learning, wrappers were used by Ron Kohavi and George John. Their idea was to wrap their treatments learners in a preprocessor that would search to make subsets from the current set of attributes. , coffee cups and newspaper clippings on the ground every month. The numbers are buried in the results of a survey performed in the spring for the county Public Works department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
All that runoff Runoff The procedure of printing the end-of-day prices for every stock on an exchange onto ticker tape. Notes: If the "tape is late" then it can take a long time to print off all the closing prices. and refuse contributes to the daily tons of pollutants pollutants see environmental pollution. - animal droppings, pesticides, motor oil and lawn fertilizers - that end up in county storm drains, eventually making their way into the ocean. The county hopes that if consumers are aware of how they're sullying the coastline, they'll think twice before dropping that next butt on the ground or washing off a paint brush under an outdoor faucet. ``What I think, it's sort of out of sight, out of mind "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" was the 99th episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and the third episode of the fourth season. Written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs and directed by Gene Reynolds, it first aired on October 5, 1976 and was repeated December 28, 1976. - I'll just throw this cup down the storm drain and it's gone,'' said Stephen Groner, a program manager for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works (LACDPW) is responsible for the construction and operation of Los Angeles County's roads, building safety, sewerage, and flood control. . ``But it just sits there year after year. It's aesthetically unpleasing for beachgoers, and it's obviously a burden on taxpayers.'' Of 4,200 tons of trash collected by the county last year, roughly 2,100 tons came from county beach cleanups, at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $7.2 million. The county plans to launch a public-relations campaign Noun 1. public-relations campaign - an advertising campaign intended to improve public relations ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign - an organized program of advertisements aimed at getting residents to help keep garbage and runoff out of storm drains. The study also found that litterbugs allow paper or trash to blow into the street more than 692,000 times a month, throw something in a gutter or down a storm drain nearly 363,000 times a month, and change their car oil but fail to recycle it 521,750 times a year. The most surprising finding was that the worst culprits tended to be the ``type of people you'd most like to live next door to,'' said Laura Pelegrin, president of Pelegrin Research Group, which conducted the study. Pelegrin calls that category of offenders ``Neat Neighbors.'' They're unintentional polluters, who keep tidy homes and recycle but wash their cars in the street and let old radiator fluid run into storm drains. |
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