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Littering Education > Infrastructure Issues> Excessive Packaging
Excessive packaging
The problem of excessive packaging was raised in panel discussions conducted for the New Zealand Anti-litter Council in 1975. Reported findings were that the two main reasons people gave for littering were laziness and excessive packaging - ‘there is so much packaging it is difficult not to litter’. This was not mentioned in the other studies examined as part of this literature review, at least not as a key cause for littering. Instinctively though, it seems likely that excessive packaging will make people more likely to litter as there are more items in the waste stream that have the potential of becoming litter items.
