The Express-Times litters our sidewalks, yards and streets weekly with its Marketplace flyer. This creates an unsightly, unsafe criminal environment and reduces the real estate values of our homes.

These flyers also clog the storm drains leading to the Bushkill Creek and the Delaware and Lehigh rivers. This sends toxic chemicals from the newsprint as well as plastic pollution into the waterways.

This is not a subscription and therefore should not be delivered unless requested by individual residents. We want the Express Times to stop delivering to property owners who don't specifically request it, stop throwing them into yards, onto sidewalks and into the streets. They must be placed at doors or delivered via the USPS.

Studies show that people are more likely to litter where there is already litter. Therefore, it isn't just the direct impact of their littering but also the additional litter that it perpetuates that foments a negative perception of our neighborhoods.