Are Billboards Visual Trash?
29 September 2000 - 7:00am
Kansas City columnist writes: "Show me a billboard, and I'll show you litter with a home."
"On the list of bad things being done to the earth, billboards aren't up there. Their ranking would be way below, let's say, herbicide and pesticide contamination of our nation's waterways and drinking water, a definite newsmaker. Still, in terms of unnecessary environmental havoc, billboards have to be a little ahead of littering. "
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Source:
Kansas City Pitch Weekly, September 28, 2000
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