We always hear "do not litter!" or "throw your litter in the bins", maybe some of you bored to hear that yet we still do not throw it in the correct place. Litter is a serious habit problem to just throw away objects on the ground or leave them lying on the ground, instead of putting them in the garbage can. In Indonesia, the amount of litter is 175.000 ton/day and this is increasing every day. But we don't have to see that far, just look around us, our campus, Sanata Dharma University is still facing the littering problems. Each day, although there are various spots of bins and it is never full yet there are many litters lying on the floor, you can see the student hall as the evidence that even though it has 10 spots of bins, we still find people throwing their litter everywhere. We have trash and …show more content…
We do not have the sense of ownership or sense of responsibility for the litters lying on the ground in public space. They are not aware, once you justify this act of irresponsibility, in the future, you will do the same action again and again and let this habit to become someone’s responsibility. All of us want the comfortable and clean place, but we hesitate to take an action for it. Many people blamed the cleaning officers when our campus seems dirty with litters in everywhere, but they do not realize that this damage can be happened because of their own action. Just think, if everyone has this concept in their mind, do you think that this problem will be solved? Do you feel comfortable to see litters everywhere and live side by side with the litters? The more we litter, the more it becomes a habit, and the more it worsen and hampering our place. Do you enjoy seeing the litters everywhere? No one enjoys it yet we still do littering and this action will never be stopped if we do not start it by