Litter on streets of Howell is embarrassing

The township of Howell is becoming an embarrassment with its litter-strewn streets. Every day when I leave my house and sit at the light on Lanes Mill Road and Route 9, I could scream.

The garbage, mostly plastic bags from Wal-Mart, is all over the property next to the Southard School and continues across Route 9 down Lanes Mill Road.

At this point the bags change color and it becomes apparent these bags are from Target. Do people purchase items and then fling the bag up in the air as they leave the parking lots? Who is responsible for cleaning up this mess?

It's disgusting and I could choke the idiotic people who can't put their trash in the garbage.

Another problem is all the shopping carts left at the bus stop on Route 9 south at the same intersection.

If Wal-Mart and Target are so community conscious, why don't they get someone out there to clean up this mess? Why can't these stores put in barriers so people can't take the carts out of the lots?

Obviously people can carry their belongings when their bus trip is over - or are there more carts waiting for them at their destination? I think not. If it is the township's responsibility to clean up all this mess, then I have an idea.

Let's stop wasting the taxpayers' money on the street cleaner I see on Randolph Road stirring up the dust and doing no cleaning whatsoever and put that money where it belongs - into cleaning up the real problem where the whole world can see.
Nancy Clay
Howell