Fast trash spreaders

Delicious way to boost your blood sugar but where will you put the bag?

Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

There’s usually a debate in this or that community around here about whether to let such chain fast-food establishments as Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin’ Donuts open stores there. I’m sympathetic to those residents who want to keep them out.

Of course, one reason to oppose them is that they tend to drive some locally based businesses out of business.

Another is that they are serious outdoor-trash spawners. I’m not sure if Dunkin’ Donuts customers are bigger slobs than the rest of us, but their coffee cups, lids, bags and so on are all over the place and have been at a generally increasing rate since the company’s founding, in 1948.

The original Dunkin' Donuts in Quincy, Mass., after its renovation in the 2000s