Fast trash spreaders
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.