Real :3 I don't understand people who litter

Downvote this comment if you jerk off to My Little Pony cartoons 5 times a day.

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

... and then after a few days find it in their laundry :P

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.

That's most people in Japan, since trash bins are so rare

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Lots of people care a great deal about themselves while caring not at all about others.

Sometimes, I put other people's trash in my pocket until I find a trashcan

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.

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

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.

Littering in certain spaces is a counter-gentrification force that reminds people of the waste in our society. Change my mind

You are the trash that litters our streets if you think that littering is in any way justifiable.

1. That's not a very convincing argument.
2. ...within the context of what I said that would be a compliment? Thanks, I guess.

it's because the metric system is superior in every way

I hate that in capitalism, if a community takes care of their streets, and make a safe an loving place, they are rewarded by higher rent.

Labor profiting from what I call existential labor (benefiting from the labor tenants do just by existing)

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.

Yeah, same. What a BS statement above lol

You may perceive it that way, but in reality it's just shitty asshole people being shitty assholes because they are pathologically incapable of being decent human beings.

WRT the image and not the text - don’t do that. Goods are replaceable, humans are not

We have plenty of trash cans with ashtrays, and people still litter and throw their cigarette butts everywhere. Humans are just gross.

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

Fine, asshole. Someone will clean up that trash, the town may end up paying someone to do it which may increase the tax burden driving out poor residents resulting in gentrification. There. Asshole.

I was going to type this and I saw your comment. Glad I’m not the only one.

And on the other end of the spectrum are complete fungal encrusted fap socks like the guy that comes into my job (dry cleaning counter) with their entire wardrobe of work clothes, with 1-2 cigarette butts in each pant pocket that I have to wear gloves in order to detail his shit over a trashcan cause he's just that much of a needledick.

His job probably has smoking rules so he can't dispose of them properly, but still, empty your pockets motherfucker!

I’m wondering what this person is even doing or how they got there. And what their plan is.

The only thing that I can think makes sense is this picture was taken half way through this operation, someone else is driving, they started where the trailer was relatively vertical and stable, and as they moved forward up that incline the trailer started to tip. And then the guy died? I don’t see how this ends well.

What kind of “work clothes” would you put cigarette butts in the pockets but then also require dry cleaning? Do you have an idea of where this guy works?

He has the name of the place in a patch on his shirts, but I haven't seen him in a while (knock on wood) and don't remember. Only that it's some blue collar thing. Maybe electrical? Mechanical?

Maybe the load was already stabilized, even at that angle, and the photo is just for show?

It is important to not do that.

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

I do this always, and even for my spliff ends (we call the cardboard bit a roach here) in a pocket ash tray.

It really bugs me when I find a rather nice smoke spot, lovely nature area, and upon my third or fourth visit there is just rubbish everywhere.

Folks have cleaned the areas, only to find them in such a state in practically no time at all.

I wish people would take more responsibility with their rubbish. It literally takes only one pocket, or a small otherwise unused compartment in my bag. It's ridiculously easy to not litter!!

pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree

dog shit arena

wat did i just read

The park in my area has spots with free dog shit bags. People are usually good at picking up after their pet

The only shit I've seen is from the hundreds of geese that come to the park

And he wants it all dry-cleaned ? He should go to the fluff-n-fold instead if it's just blue collar gear with the cover-alls and such.

I wish I had a fluff-n-fold when I was at the fish farm, as downtime in town was short. But, then again, some poor Laundromat would have to suffer all my fishy smelling gear!

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

Worst part is the last time he was in, he was bitching that we "ruined his shirts". After inspection, my supervisor realized that the only shirts we "ruined" had a particular business patch that was different from the rest, making us presume it was poor quality glue or some shit.

Oh and he always humble bragged that he was putting it on the company card each time. 🙄

On what basis do you think littering is a counter-gentrification force?

It seems to me all it does is depress property values to make it more attractive for gentrification.

It's not like the people buying up properties, bulldozing them, and building condos for massive profits can't afford to push the litter to the next neighborhood.

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

Wow it's almost like people don't fit into neat little boxes

We are on the internet, i guess 🙄

People just can't be bothered. Especially smokers: in my observations 95% or more smokers drop cig butts right where they stop smoking. And they do it absolutely automatically.

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.

One of my biggest gamble wins: Guy in van at a stop sign threw an empty cigarette pack out of his car window right in front of the path of my bike, I picked it up and tossed it back through his window right into his lap as he's mid-way through lighting. His surprise breaks not into anger but a self-effacing chuckle, and he shrugs his shoulders at me in acknowledgement. Do not try this.

Littering is fucking gross and people who pick up trash are heroes but let's also consider how much of that trash generation was ever necessary or even convenient in the first place. If your consumable product has two or three layers of wrapping, or even one if that layer is of marginal utility, then maybe we should be rethinking our use of those things until the people who are manufacturing them are convinced to the same degree. I think that if something's packaging can possibly be fully recyclable for a typical municipality (I say typical municipality because a lot of "recyclables" are only such if you have expensive and advanced processing facilities to make them so) then it should be, and if it's not then there should be taxes or fines associated with those exceptions.

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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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.

Based

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

When I was a kid, I used to have a runny nose all the time. By high school, I started carrying a tissue box, trash bag, and hand sanitizer around in my backpack.