This color educational film is about the littering problem of Americans. Copyright 1954.

Opening: A father and son look at an elephant in a zoo. The child throws trash onto the ground. Newspaper headline: Predicts Labor Day Litter Will Cost $100,000. People in a park. A trash man puts trash away. $5,000,000 yearly bill for litter cleanup in three Southern California counties. Family leaves trash at the park. Two people dump trash after a picnic. A doctor looks through a microscope. Children on a school playground. University building. Trash is thrown onto the ground in a park. Trash scattered in various areas of the country. Trash near the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco (:06-1:42). A street sweeper. A car drives by a police car and tosses a good amount of trash out the window. The car is pulled over for littering. A judge gives the man a fine and tells the man he must go to a highway and clean up one mile of highway free of trash. A policeman watches as the man cleans up litter from a highway. A sign shows a $500 fine for throwing trash (1:43-3:07). Signs that show not to litter and to be clean. A man places trash into a wastebasket on the street. Trash can nearby in a littered park. People in cars throw trash out the window as they drive. It’s a habit many have. A car drives in a wooded area and the driver throws trash out the window. A girl on the beach puts trash in a trash can. A woman in a park talks about being clean. A man stands near a car and talks about littering. He shows his trash, puts it in a bag and walks away (3:08-4:59). Trash near a sidewalk, people toss papers. Trash falls out of a car window. A man drinks and tosses a can onto the grass. He then picks it up and puts it in his car. People clean up a picnic table at a park. Grand Canyon. Snow capped mountains, Trees in a forest. Highway being built. Litter tossed into grass. Cans in the grass. Trash in a rest area. Tall trees. Garbage at the foot of the tree. Women on horses. Men walk(5:00-7:04). A car drives. A lake surrounded by mountains. A man fishes. A flowing river. Snow capped mountain. Arizona mountains. A snow capped mountain with a clean lake before it (7:05-7:40). End credits (7:41-7:56).

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