Your help is needed! McClatchy Newscorp, owner of the Tacoma News Tribune,

[WestSeattle2]

continues to trash the City of Tacoma with advertisements from local businesses, enclosed in non-biodegradable plastic bags. Millions of these advertisement bags (by some counts 2.6 million in 2014 alone) are thrown on lawns and sidewalks and down storm drains all across the city on a frequent basis. Requests to the Tacoma News Tribune (TNT) to cease this delivery method have been met with the equivalent of the corporate third finger.

A local citizen's group gathered up hundreds of these ad bags and returned them to the TNT last year. The large pile was stacked outside the front doors of the TNT corporate offices in Tacoma. The TNT's response was to install No Trespassing signs and to hire a private security company to patrol the grounds to ensure that the trash that they distribute across the city, is not returned to them. See news story here: http://www.king5.com/videos/news/local/tacoma/2014/08/05/13381426/

Would you please join local citizens in stopping this horrendous threat to birds, sea life as well as to our environment? Please share your opinion of this corporate malfeasance with McClatchy Newscorp as well as the Tacoma News Tribune?

http://www.mcclatchy.com/2012/06/29/2794/the-news-tribune.html

Also, a concerted effort to confront the actual advertisers who make this whole environmental disaster possible in the first place, has been launched. More information on that can be found on the Citizens for Tacoma, Not Trash Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/zeeckbags/432916830204924/?notif_t=like

One advertiser is Puget Sound Hearing Aid and Audiology:
http://tinyurl.com/mzexce6

Your taking a few minutes to share your opinion with the corporation profiting from the trashing of our environment, would be greatly appreciated. A strong message needs to be sent to the individuals responsible.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I've often thought that

a trebuchet would make a handy trash-return device.

[NaturalHigh]

2. The trebuchet is sadly underutilized these days.

[Wella]

3. So you prefer wet newspapers?

I must be missing something here.

[yewberry]

4. Most would probably prefer no newspaper.

The company ignores requests to opt out of delivery, though.

[Wella]

5. So the underlying issue is unwanted newspapers

that eventually become garbage.

[yewberry]

6. To many in the community, the newspaper is litter.

And we have many communities locally that ban disposable plastic bags, so the bags are especially hated.

[WestSeattle2]

7. To be clarify, these are not newspapers. These are junk mail only - placed

in plastic bags and thrown on lawns, driveways, sidewalks and down storm drains across the city. They're only advertisements.