Is it really that hard....?

To walk 15 steps to a garbage can? I mean I haven't seen so much liter before in my life at a local park. Everything was every where due to people comiong to watch their kids play football...but not having the time to pick up their trash.


So I did it! I picked it up and through it out not all of it cause my parents freaked out...cause it was dirty but the garbage bin was half full when I got done.


*sigh* I don't understand people sometimes...

 

I've never gotten litterers either. I live in rural Alaska, a place of great beauty, and weekly I stop on my dirt road and pick up someones fast food bag or twelve pack of empties. It's really no big deal to find a trash can.

 

i'm not a fan of litter-ers either. i make sure that when i eat outside, i throw away all the wrappers and such, and when i'm with my friends i make sure they do it too

 

I agree. It is not hard to toss a peice of trash out or throw it in recycling. I see it really bad on school yards and at intersections. People will toss bottles, glass jars, bags, car ashtrays - anything out their window while they wait for the light to turn green. Kids toss their trash on the ground so much it's suprising cities aren't covered in a foot of trash.

It reminds me of a television show called 'Trailer Park Boys'. A character is tossing trash in a lake, and says something about 'I don't know how it does it, but you just toss something in this lake and the next day it's gone. It must filter it or something'. People seem to think the enviroment takes care of it all.

My city, Kitchener, Ontario, recently introduced a program for the second time to combat trash. If you're out and pick up a peice of trash and somebody who sees you whom works for the city, they will give you 10-50 dollars, or enter you into a draw for 1000 dollars. They actually have to pay people to pick up trash, which is appaling, considering we were the first city in the world to introduce a blue box recycling program.

Pick up your trash!

 

My friends and I spend time picking up trash that other people can't bare the responsibility of throwing away properly. It's a shame how over time how really nasty it is, and that some people just don't care.

 

Thats really sad that we have to stoop down to the level of paying people to throw their own trash out! But I guess it helps. . .

 

neither do i... its really sad actually!

 

its good theres people like you that pick their shit up
it annoys me how lazy some people are

 

Ah, I hate littering. For Earth Day I went outside to clean up trash on my street, and I got a lot done (bag was already half-full from not even the entire one side of the street...) except my brother came home and we were going out to lunch.

 

yea i know how frustrating it can get, but dont give up, someone's gotta do it. We need more people who respect Mother Nature in this world.

 

Here's another one, not littering but the same complaint of laziness - why is it people can't return their shopping carts to the racks? The store was nice enough to provide the cart for their use, but they can't even return it when they're finished with it?

 

The worst is when people see you picking up garbage and throw more so that you'll pick it up. It makes me want to strangle them.

 

good for you! more people shoudl take action like you, and yes... it pisses me off to no end, i'm always itching to throw things away

 

I agree.. I mean to walk another 13 steps to put your cart away... i dunno... why but its a major hasle for many people..

 

One dey me und you ire guing tu get merried.

 

People are unbelievably lazy - it's sad when they can't even clean up after themselves...

 

I only pick up people's litter only when I'm out in the forest because babylon is a big fucking pile of trash anyways...

 

I pretty much agree, Grease Monkey. Though i don't litter in the city, i only rarely pick up anything. Whereas in the Forest, or even some of the more natural areas like the foothills of Sandia mountain in albuquerque, i can be real fanatic about picking up everything. I don't agree with edward abbey's joke about throwing beer cans along the highway and saying "the beer can is beautiful, it is the highway that is ugly", but i think it makes an interesting point.

 

Its so wrong i dont want to think about what the world will be like in 5 years.