And so long as a growing number of us want to clutter streets and highways with gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s and light trucks, we really don't have much right to go around pointing fingers at environmental bogymen.
But critics of the bins say they clutter streets and are unsuitable for a city such as Birmingham which has a lot of terraced housing, meaning residents would have to wheel them through their homes, or store them permanently in front of them.
Photo: Some of the handiwork of the storms that roared over the region on Sunday night and cluttered a street in Ridgewood, N.J., yesterday.
Two minor complaints: It takes up a lot of memory space on the phone because all of its data is downloaded at the start, and sometimes its view of the road ahead can get cluttered with street names and other details.
No commercial advertisements cluttered the streets, just billboards screaming proletariat platitudes and memorializing Communist icons.
WHAT really upsets and infuriates me is how cluttered the streets, avenues and sidewalks have become.
Ranks of bicycles available for hire and parked cars clutter the street.
To his dismay, uncollected garbage was overflowing bins and cluttering the street barely a block away.
At the end of the school day, the children poured out of the gates onto a narrow street cluttered with vendors selling candy, chips, nachos and ice cream.
But there, in a basement cluttered with unused street signs, Horst and Angelika Matzen hand out donated computers to welfare recipients.
On a Brooklyn street cluttered with dollar stores and cuchifrito stands, New York State's labor commissioner announced on Wednesday a stepped-up enforcement effort against neighborhood businesses that violate the state's wage and hour laws.
