Nothing pissed me off like a city with no trash cans when I still smoked cigarettes and carried the butts with me. Walked for blocks and blocks with no place to dispose of them responsibly. Fuck you, Berkeley.
A lot of cities have been convincing themselves through selective mckinseyshit studies that removing trash cans makes people litter less, because those cities don’t want to pay for updated cans or sanitation service. Which completely neglects the majority of people who don’t litter, do use trash cans, and pay a lot of tax money for government services like sanitation.
We have plenty of trash cans with ashtrays, and people still litter and throw their cigarette butts everywhere. Humans are just gross.
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I’m pretty sure if we did a study, there would be a huge correlation of assholes destroying the planet to people who litter and don’t put their cart back. Send those people to mars=utopia on earth?
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On my days to exercise I’ll pick up trash around my block on my cool down walk. If it’s 3 miles out I’m likely to not pick it up given I’m typically on a run at that point.
On the one hand, I’m proud that my son does this,. On the other hand, I need him to empty his pockets before they go in the wash, because even with a pre-wash check we only have an 80% success rate.
Oh, good on you though!!
I can see how that’s really frustrating. Maybe a stone needs to go in with the rubbish each time to make it easier?
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i’m about to type the most privileged sentence imaginable: i wear male pants and i don’t use the pockets. i got reasons i’m not going into but i carry a bag and that bag has bags in it for trash. i’m not getting my good bag dirty i got places to go.
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why do people even use straws!! they’re not necessary; even if we just ignore the waste factor, it still tastes way better, and if you use ice, it’s colder ( my personal fav reason )
while we’re at it, lids are only needed like half the time, when you are transporting the drink
plus Paper straws are disgusting!! i say abolish the straw!!
In some third world countries it’s standard to use a straw with a can due to rodents urinating on cans and drying in that little lip area.
Stick to glass bottle sodas…
thank you for reminding me of my privilege in society and how silly my little issues are… not being facetious
Not to jump on you, but we have steel straws for a paralyzed relative. They can’t drink without assistance unless they have a conveniently placed container with a straw; even then, something like a soda can is impossible for them to drink out of without a straw.
But yes, paper straws are garbage and plastic straws are generally unnecessary.
You’re welcome. I don’t like to litter.
Real :3 I don’t understand people who litter
They’re the same ones who eat junk food. People who care nothing about their health, also care nothing about the environment.
That is not true at all. If it was, I would litter everywhere, and my body freak, health-obsessed adopted sister would never have thrown plastic wrappers cheerfully out the window of the car. (She does not do that any more, we trained her to give a shit. Hard upbringing, from which our adoption lifted her.)
I don’t think that’s true. But seeing that the majority of litter around where i live is from McDonald’s, it might also not be completely false
No I don’t think that’s right.
I like to eat junk food. I often make a pizza from my freezer. I like to eat chips. I do not litter.
Wow it’s almost like people don’t fit into neat little boxes
We are on the internet, i guess 🙄
That doesn’t sound right. We should be able to tell everything about a given person from one aspect of their life
Lots of people care a great deal about themselves while caring not at all about others.
I eat junk food. I treat my body like a trash can. Doesn’t mean I treat the environment I live in the same. I share that environment with other people. While I may be trash inside, I don’t extend that where it intrudes upon other people. I care more about others than myself. My environment is spotless, I am not.
I think you are wrong.Yeah, same. What a BS statement above lol
Maybe it’s projection? They’re self centered so they assume everyone else is
Yeah, it’s literally free to not litter. If you have the tiniest shred of care inside, you can just not do it, at no disadvantage.
Back when I was in school we used to have a day where we would go outside and pick up trash, and I knew someone who’d litter with the reasoning of “it doesn’t matter, because I’ll be picking it back up on that day anyway”. Which to me never made much sense as a reasoning, because you’re still gonna be walking to school surrounded by all the trash the rest of the year?
Anywho, it’s not related to anything you said, but it just reminded me of it
It would make sense if you littered on that day only, before the pick-up, and only if it wasn’t light enough to blow away.
I just like looking at your crack when you flex to pick up my litter
It is a nice crack from what I’ve been told :3
it’s because the metric system is superior in every way
… and then after a few days find it in their laundry :P
Me when I eat a piece of candy or mint and pocket the wrapper because it didn’t originate from the restaurant I’m seated at. xD
That’s most people in Japan, since trash bins are so rare
People that don’t do this are no better than animals, complete savages who can only ever be made to do right by the threat of legal punishment. They are bad members of society and we would be better off if they died.
Yeah, I was going to say that this is the bare minimum of public decency, if you don’t think this is normal behavior you are a plague on this earth.
Can we mention the people who either leave the dog shit on the pavement or pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree?
The streets here are full of shit, I get like 10% is probably human but it’s not hard to pick up after your dog.
Most parks even have a dog shit arena so there’s not really any excuse
Dog shit is one that I’m on the fence about. I guess on pavement, it’s pretty useless, but on dirt, that shit nourishes and keeps the cycle going. So I have mixed feelings about sealing it away in plastic and sending it to a landfill with enough other poison that the nutrients probably stay out of the cycle for a while.
pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree
dog shit arena
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re the first part:
People often hang poop bags from trees along walking trails.
my assumption is that it’s because they don’t want to carry it the rest of the walk, and will pick it up on the way back. that’s my assumption because I do this myself on private trails, and I do something similar on public trails very occasionally (I just hide it better, and I don’t forget)
what I don’t understand is how people both put it in a tree where it is visible and forget to pick it up on their way back
It could be a message so they put a garbage bin there.
Where I live there’s a park where they removed all the bins and it made people put the poop bags where the bins were. Now the city is asking people not to litter but they will also put some bins back.
There’s an annoying trend where people hang the bags of dog shit from branches of trees, not sure why. Probably so they’re not carrying a bag of dog shit until the next bin?
Dog shit arenas are sandy areas in parks that are fenced off so dogs can be exercised off the lead, but humans being humans just let the dogs shit in there and just leave it
my brain said dog shit arenas were these whatchacallems, arboretums with lots of dogshit bags hanging from the branches and they also had paintball.
my brain’s version is better
They also do exist
Thanks for the explanation! Some humans sure do live like other animals…
