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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My go to is "my kids have to live here when you're dead...."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

"... and that's gonna be sooner than you think."

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah like it would've been better to leave the doo there, now you've littered shit AND a bag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess they pick it up only if someone is nearby. As soon as noone sees it they throw it anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Ohh thanks! That would make perfect sense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's sad how this is something special. It shouldn't be. It should be completely normal to not fucking litter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I also agree with your first sentence, as in, the owners should indeed shit trees.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I hate those people. I only do it with my own shit like a decent member of society

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fit6o5pz5zla61.jpg

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For all of you who don't want to revisit reddit:

[–] southsamurai 8 points 8 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Literally the entire population of Japan 😂

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Lookin at you, smokers who throw their butts out the car window. Put those in your pocket!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Back when there were film canisters, I would use those. Then I smartened the fuck up and quit smoking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

As a truck driver, I can't help but look at the picture and think... "of course it's US Express in that situation"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Also swift saw a company had a worse accident rate and was like hold my beer I'm gonna buy em!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's not a us xpress truck tho. That's not how they do their truck numbers

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

That's also people who "recycle" to "save the planet" while big oil is fucking it up 1000 time more than us little fucks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You probably smell like cigarettes because of the smoking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Big if true!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is true, but holding onto the butts makes it significantly worse.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Adds a little extra flavor to the rest of the cigarettes too....

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A smart city puts trash cans every hundred feet or so.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've always believed the biggest cause of littering was lack of proper receptacles.

I was proven wrong every year at the county fair.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I've seen too many empty trash cans surrounded by trash on the ground. It's about the mindset

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tag yourself! I'm a rear wheel (getting crushed by the weight of social responsibility)!

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