Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

Instead of just shaking your head, a new program allows you to report litterbugs - at least in Eastern Hillsborough County:

Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, a nonprofit organization aimed at keeping the county free of litter, has started a pilot program in the Mango, Seffner and Thonotosassa areas called Trash Troopers.

The program works like this: Residents who see someone, say, toss a drink can out of his car can call a hot line and leave information about what they saw, when the littering happened and any identifying information, such as a license plate number.

The organization will send letters to offending motorists informing them that someone in their vehicle was spotted littering and that littering is illegal. A trash bag or pocket ashtray will also be provided.

We hope Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful (be friends with KHCB on myspace!) can keep the program going, and expand it to the rest of the county.

For now, if you see someone out east tossing trash somewhere outside a garbage can, don’t confront the violators. Simply turn the violator’s information into Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful (KHCB) via their contact page, or download the online report (doc), call the Trash Trooper Litter Hotline 1-877-Y-LITTER or 1-877-954-8837, fax the report to 813.960.5044, or send e-mail to KHCB3@yahoo.com,

Litterbugs suck.

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