Sadly, it’s negated ten times over by all those who litter.
If I threw all my trash on the side of the road id be there also.
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?
You’re welcome. I don’t like to litter.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Littering is fucking gross and people who pick up trash are heroes but let’s also 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.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle are quoted in that order for a reason. For some reason we humans don’t want to think. Put burden of recycling on someone else and call it a day without wondering if it’s actually recycled. Yeah we are a scourge to the environment.
Governance isn’t “someone else”, it’s all of us organized. We’ve already bought into the propaganda of rugged individualism, by design it doesn’t work, all it nets is the self-loathing that I don’t think you realize you’re now uncritically projecting onto your entire species without even considering that I might fundamentally disagree with such cynicism, or how bad it kneecaps the discourse. I’m not interested in circling the drain with people trained into preoccupation with personal sin, there are real things that can be done to cut off the problem at the source. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle must be aimed by our collective effort at concentrations of power.
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!!
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…
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!
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?
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!
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. 🙄
WRT the image and not the text - don’t do that. Goods are replaceable, humans are not
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.
Maybe the load was already stabilized, even at that angle, and the photo is just for show?
It is important to not do that.
Maybe that was Homelander, about to finish pushing that truck off the road.
