I would like to pass a law that fast food beverage containers be subject to a CRV like fee.  Might not keep people from throwing them on the road but at least it would give someone an incentive to pick them up.  I read above that "unrecyclable takeout food packaging like foamed polystyrene are the second largest component of litter".  Really? What is first, recyclable takeout food packaging?  In my neighborhood fast food packaging is far and above the leading cause of litter PERIOD.  If I had a nickel for ever fast food cup I would easily take in 20 bucks a week!  

Maybe we should pass a law that fast food joints have to hire people to clean up litter in an area of a mile around their stores.  Or just have them help fund the clean up by someone else.  But let us make sure that it does NOT create a new government Bureaucracy since that will accomplish nothing but more waste. 

Not picking on the fast food joints but let's face it the facts are the facts.  They, or more rightly put, their customers, create a great deal of the litter in this state.