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The 2014 American State Litter Scorecard Final: Includes Scores, Charts, Stephen [Steve] Spacek
The 2014 American State Litter Scorecard Final: Includes Scores, Charts, Stephen [Steve] Spacek
Stephen [Steve] L Spacek
A NEW State Litter "Scorecard" is released for the 2014 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Conference. Every three years, the Scorecard approximates each state’s overall public spaces environmental quality through tried-and-true, hard-to-publicly obtain objective and subjective measures, resulting in a total overall jurisdictional score. Readers gain a realistic "picture" of "what's going on" within one or all of the 50 states. Illegal littering and dumping, found frequently on or near transportation paths, creates danger to public safety and health, with 800+ Americans dying each year by vehicle collisions with unmoved roadway debris. Because policy makers, public administrators and citizens …