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.
First thing I see, on the way to mount a greenhouse, right after I put an used peanuts back in my pocket.
Palantir?
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.
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.
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.
Real :3 I don’t understand people who litter
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.
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
It would make sense if you littered on that day only, before the pick-up, and only if it wasn’t light enough to blow away.
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
it’s because the metric system is superior in every way
Downvote this comment if you jerk off to My Little Pony cartoons 5 times a day.
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.
Wow it’s almost like people don’t fit into neat little boxes
We are on the internet, i guess 🙄
That doesn’t sound right. We should be able to tell everything about a given person from one aspect of their life
Lots of people care a great deal about themselves while caring not at all about others.
That is not true at all. If it was, I would litter everywhere, and my body freak, health-obsessed adopted sister would never have thrown plastic wrappers cheerfully out the window of the car. (She does not do that any more, we trained her to give a shit. Hard upbringing, from which our adoption lifted her.)
Oh be quiet.
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.Yeah, same. What a BS statement above lol
Maybe it’s projection? They’re self centered so they assume everyone else is
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
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.
yes, it is a stunt for a show. it is all make believe and now my anxieties are gone thank you that explanation works.
those things are fucking heavy.
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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
pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree
dog shit arena
wat did i just read
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.
one of the giant bins (with a huge underground container) in my area has a sign that explicitly says no dog poop on it
like wtf why would you put a massive green-lidded sealed trash container at a park next to the sidewalk for the street and then tell people not to put dog poop in it‽
I’d much rather my taxes go towards more trash cans and pick up service in my area then making intersections twice as big as they need to be and the upkeep related to that. It’s absolutely wild that in my 40 km an hour neighborhood an intersection is like eight cars wide with a huge turning radius for the giant trucks that don’t go into this neighborhood anyways because they can’t make the first corner into the side street
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
Thanks for the explanation! Some humans sure do live like other animals…
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
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.
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
Thank you for acknowledging my efforts. Sometimes my pockets become the trash can because I forget to get it out.
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.
Sometimes, I put other people’s trash in my pocket until I find a trashcan
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.
Based
I was going to type this and I saw your comment. Glad I’m not the only one.
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.
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.
We have plenty of trash cans with ashtrays, and people still litter and throw their cigarette butts everywhere. Humans are just gross.
I’m not surprised at all just amused of course it would be fucking Berkeley. I was expecting Fort Worth because that was mine.
This was me today. Also I’m visiting China and man is it clean (at least where I am)
semi-related
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.
