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proof that humans can ruin a beach without even meaning to
means Trash carelessly dropped or scattered in a public place; also a group of animals born at once, or a portable bed once carried by servants.
from From Old French litiere, itself from Medieval Latin lectaria, rooted in Latin lectus, 'bed.' The first sense was literally a bed you could carry — a curtained couch borne on poles. From 'bed' came the straw or rushes spread for animals to lie on, then the bedding's scattered, strewn quality, and from that strewing we got both the 'mess on the ground' meaning and the 'litter of piglets' born together on that bedding. So the candy wrapper on the sand and the basket of kittens are distant cousins, both descended from a portable bed.
- newborn name
- a group of newborn animals is also a litter
- ocean garbage patch
- plastic vortex larger than Texas floats in the Pacific
- cigarette champion
- butts are the most littered item on Earth
- medieval ride
- a curtained litter once carried nobles on shoulders
- decomposition marathon
- a glass bottle takes a million years to vanish
great pacific garbage patch — oceanic accumulation of microplastics covering an area twice the size of texas in the north pacific
landfill sites fresh kills — former new york city dump that received 29,000 tons of garbage daily until 2001
smoking gun litter arrest — san francisco 2019 ordinance where dropping cigarette butts results in $250+ fines