I usually will call out loudly to someone throwing trash on the floor and let them know they dropped something. With the exception of one dude, everyone immediately picks it up out of embarrassment and throws it away. The one dude, in reference, looked at it and said, "That's not mine", to which I said I saw him throw it and pointed to the nearest trash can and said he needed to pick it up and throw it there, he eventually did and we both moved on with our lives, otherwise I would have been forced to use the "Your mommy isn't here to clean up after you" card.
My go to is "my kids have to live here when you're dead...."
"... and that's gonna be sooner than you think."
My favorite are dog owners that do pick up after their dogs but then fling the bag into the trees or bushes along the trail.
Yes that dog doo is not preserved for future generations. Thanks.
Yeah like it would've been better to leave the doo there, now you've littered shit AND a bag.
Can someone, anyone, please explain why someone would do this?
Not picking it up in the first place, though wrong, at least makes sense. But this is just crazy
Lots of the bags are bio-degradable, so they will eventually, in some unit of months or years, break down.
Of course, its the same issue as chucking a banana peel. It fucks with the local environment and will take a long time to be "gone" if you just throw it into a forest and walk away. Enough people do that, and eventually you have a trail covered in shit and bananas.
It's sad how this is something special. It shouldn't be. It should be completely normal to not fucking litter.
Sometimes I feel pretty lucky to have grown up in Vermont. Because this is the norm, hell we even have a state holiday where we all go out and pick up trash that Flatlanders leave. And then I remember oh wait we are also the state that's been destroying our forests and farm land for the sake of building suburban homes for litter bugs that don't respect the culture that was already here.
one thing i cant stand are the people that bag up their dog shit, and then leave it on a trail. immediate mood ruiner when im trying to enjoy the wonders of our planet... and i see a plastic bag of dog shit. like, you're doing more harm than good and youre probably aware of that very fact. these people are the human equivalent of dog shit.
It would be more environmentally friendly to just leave the dog shit alone instead of putting it in a bag first if you're just gonna leave it on the ground still.
Shit Trees. Dunno if it's common in the rest of the world but a lot of Brit dog owners tie them to tree and buch branches. Then in winter you have Shit Trees & Turd Bushes.
I also agree with your first sentence, as in, the owners should indeed shit trees.
I once did this because i knew i was going to walk past that spot again and didnt want to carry it the whole time. no one was on that trail that day. and i brought it back out one the return a few hours later. (there were no trash cans out there.) Perhaps something similar was going on with you? Or am I a bad guy?
I wonder how many people have the same idea as you but then just forget when they walk back. On top of this, they never remember that they forgot so they have a guilty free conscious and do again.
If you're confident you always pick it back up 100% of the time then great! But I wouldn't do it because I'm dumb and would forget like 10% of the time.
I hate those people. I only do it with my own shit like a decent member of society
I love how they go out of their way to make dog shit non biodegradable before leaving it in nature. Classy.
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It's the same as the Shopping Cart theory. There are a few analogous theories, but they're all the same. If you don't return your grocery cart, pick up your pet's poop, or hold your trash till you find a disposal then you're an asshole.
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My crippled ass limps and canes my way to the nearest provided spot.
If I can do this with one leg that barely works, two bad knees, a bad back, and after a half hour+ of misery stumping around a grocery store, nobody not in a chair has an excuse. And it ain't that hard to return a cart in a chair.
Returning trolleys was the norm in England during the 90s. I dunno what the fuck happened for everyone to suddenly start refusing to return them. Maybe the employment of trolley collectors made people lazy?
Winds me up though. I always return them and make sure to return any nearby ones.
I put trash in my pockets because its in its natural habitat
Sounds aggressive, how would you fit me in your pockets?
I carry plastic retail bags when hiking and kayaking.
If you flatten them out, fold them over a few times, roll them tight and wrap with a rubber band, you get a really tiny, portable bag.
Literally the entire population of Japan 😂
Lookin at you, smokers who throw their butts out the car window. Put those in your pocket!
I kept a 1/4 filled water bottle in my car for butts. The reason I started this is because an old mad shouted at me at the lights.
I accidentally consumed that water once. Shortly afterwards I quit smoking.
🤮 Yeah that oughta do it
Back when there were film canisters, I would use those. Then I smartened the fuck up and quit smoking.
I've always put rubbish in my pocket and kept it until I can find a bin after seeing a Sesame street segment about it as a young kid.
But when I smoked I did sometimes drop my butts on the ground. Normally I would keep hold of them if I was near a public bin as most of them have ashtrays in the top I could dispose of them in.
Coincidentally I've noticed that l, at least locally to me, the council have replaced those bins with ones with no ashtrays which has definitely increased the number of butts on the ground. Wonder if having them is seen as encouraging smoking.
But sometimes if I wasn't near a public bin I'd drop my cig, stub it out and leave it on the ground. I used to smoke hand rolled cigarettes with no filter, just tobacco and paper. I justified it to myself saying it would biodegrade but it still can't have been good for the environment.
As a truck driver, I can't help but look at the picture and think... "of course it's US Express in that situation"
Also swift saw a company had a worse accident rate and was like hold my beer I'm gonna buy em!
Is that because their trucks are just so nice to hold up that you like to nip out for a good stretch, or....
That's not a us xpress truck tho. That's not how they do their truck numbers
That's also people who "recycle" to "save the planet" while big oil is fucking it up 1000 time more than us little fucks.
My wife gets mad at me sometimes because I put my cigarette butts in my pockets until I can find a garbage all the time and end up smelling like cigarettes
I visited Japan like 15 years ago, your not alone over there. Everyone does that and has little boxes to store them in. This goes for all trash they make, they don't have trash cans in public since someone abused them once to bomb a train area. I loved it over there... so much care and respect for everything.
Could you use the cigarette box? That's what I used to do. Just stick the butt in one of the empty spots/the lid.
Adds a little extra flavor to the rest of the cigarettes too....
Just in case you don't know about them, consider switching to a dry herb vaporizer. The smoke is much cleaner and doesn't smell nearly as bad. Also no butts to deal with.
A smart city puts trash cans every hundred feet or so.
I've always believed the biggest cause of littering was lack of proper receptacles.
I was proven wrong every year at the county fair.
Looking at Japan and Vermont it really seems like solution to the litter problem is making a culture of politeness. We really need some physiatrists to study what makes a society polite. Like what makes groups of people become polite.
I've seen too many empty trash cans surrounded by trash on the ground. It's about the mindset
I have a policy that if I come across a bag (usually plastic) while traveling, I pick and take it on the way.
Then I randomly fill it with trash that I can't ignore while enjoying nature.
Unfortunately, usually only 1 bag isn't enough.
Tag yourself! I'm a rear wheel (getting crushed by the weight of social responsibility)!
My city now mandates by law that we have to put recyclable materials in the recycling bin and compost in the green bin. You can and will get fined if you don't and they do check, for households at least, because the vast majority of restaurants, offices, hell city-owned public places like parks, transit stations, libraries, etc do not have a green bin and many don't even have a recycling bin. I've directly been told to just throw it in the trash. Biodegradable packaging is useless 99% of the time because there is no compost bin to put it in and they end up in the landfill anyway.
It's what I like to call environmental theatre and pinning the burden of waste sorting entirely on the individual instead of seeing it as an infrastructure and access problem requiring government action. Not even a lot of action either, just buy some dollar store trash cans and put them in places since you already have a comprehensive city-wide recycling and compost collection program.
Where I live we have a 10 cent tax on plastic bags. They environment is so much cleaner now. I didn't realize it was a problem until it wasn't.
I do this. I didn't realize more people don't lol
