Sure, it’s only garbage people who litter. But don’t forget that it was lobby of the plastic industry who overemphasized the waste and recycling system as a solution to pollution, as opposed to reducing consumption.
I mean, yes, reducing and reusing are more important.
But in the end if we didn’t recycle, we would eventually run out of resources.
Well, only some plastics can be recycled, and not very well at that. Plastic manufacturers have known this for 50+ years and never told us.
In all fairness. It’s nice to have clean spaces as well.
You can help the homeless by dropping your cans though
Probably better to leave them sitting neatly somewhere though. A spot that says “I’m done with this and it’s ready for pickup”
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In actual civilised countries, people do think like that, teach their kids to think like that, and call out people who don’t respect their environment.
It’s a societal problem at your end probably
When I was young kids would actually get mad if someone wasn’t being a tidy kiwi. It was so ingrained in us to not litter and pick up litter. I remember seeing a young girl scolding an adult for throwing his cigarette on the ground.
This is why you need to focus on local change as the goal. By local I mean right there and then. You pick up some trash or you prevent your own from going on the ground, the change is right there in front of you: that section of ground, at that time, is clean.
If you do the small things with big changes in mind as the reason, it’s a recipe for exactly the kind of burnout you’re referring to.
There is change. It’s just small. But it’s 100% real and right there in front of you and it reliably follows from your action.
Be the change you want to see in the world
And fuck everyone else
Kek, me with two pockets full of trash. Not all of my own even
I kind of interpret the image as he’s doing something pointless. Clearly, he can’t be holding that for real. And by that logic, meme implies that not littering is useless. Maybe an Atlas/Atlant meme would’ve worked better.
In Japan they don’t have public trash cans so if you eat a snack you just shove the wrapper in your pocket until you get home or wherever. You end up with a pocket filled with trash, ha
In Japan I had no idea how to get rid of rubbish. The only way I knew how was to find the Mc Donald’s and throw our trash away there.
I don’t know why they don’t have public bins.
They are afraid of bombs.
In my city center, after a terrorist attack decades ago with a bomb in one of them, all the trash bins were removed and never reinstated.
Everyone knows a bomb can only explode if it’s within a trash can. I’m glad Japan no longer has to worry about this critical issue.
I all seriousness though, by all accounts I’ve heard Japan is very clean. The lack of trash cans is not an excuse people use and things work fine without them.
Its clean but there are a lot of stinky rubbish bags on the side of the road.
That makes the US’s reaction to domestic terrorism almost reasonable.
Apparently we must have had a bomb thing with a bench at some point
Don’t need a terrorist attack when all you need to do is be homeless
They don’t have them because they were removed after the Tokyo Metro nerve gas attack in 1995 as a precaution against future terrorist attacks. It’s a pretty common response to terror attacks, France did it after the 1995 GIA bombings and the UK did it after the 1993 Bishopgate bombing by the Provisional IRA.
Wait, do you mean to tell me they don’t have public trash bins in France or the UK either? Or did they bring them back after a while?
They brought them back after a while. Japan has started bringing trash cans back in cities slowly too.
Anti-public cost cutting disguised as security theater
Dam that’s a bit of an over reaction imo.
I like that last pocket on my backpack. Mesh pocket like the one for drink bottles, but a more of a flat pocket with no zipper, little tension band at the top. Great for that tissue or what have you.
I keep my hands in my pockets, but I have yet to find a trash bin that accepts living garbage.
You’re very welcome.
And I throw that trash in the garbage collector truck which goes around the town, out of it, into a landfill and stuffs it there. I hate living in a 3rd world country.
This could also be “people who put stray carts (trolleys for UKians) in the cart return even if they weren’t the one to use them”
Is it a humblebrag? Were you making this meme while stroking your willie, OP?
My back right pocket has seen a lot of snotty tissues. I wash my jeans maybe twice a year.
There may be a smell that you are not aware of.
Sometimes I find garbage in my pockets from months ago :)
