littering

Yeah. Here is Maryland we have a $500 fine or so for littering. But even with that, there are still heaps of trash on the sides of the roads. It really makes me mad. I donr know why people just can wait till they get home to throw their stuff away.

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-Max

 

Joe, I'm with ya, nothing peeves me more than some lazy, thoughtless @$$hole tossing their litter on the ground - don't matter if the garbage can is 10 feet or 10 miles away, it's unacceptable IMO.

But, having visited your fair city I must tell you, New Orleans is actually worse!!! I hate to say it about my home city, but it's true. I have a strong love/hate relationship with Nawlins...great people, great music, the best food in the world, but man, someone needs to get these people to understand how UGLY all that trash is on the streets.

 

This is theone thing that amazes me about NYC. I've been there twice and both times I saw more trash on the ground then anywhere else I've ever been, yet there's always a garbage can very close by.

 

Yea that kind of behavior pisses me off. Littering is a crime..I see that kind of stuff here all the time..I go to the beach. I see people that just leave their trash on the beach. stuff like glass bottles which are illegal at the beach. food wrapper, and then there's the dirty dipers ten feet from a trash can. What is wrong with these people? If it was up to me I would have a person like a lifeguard watching the beach for people that litter the beach or parking lot. and have a big fine for each item of litter. Many of the fires around here are started my A-holes that toss a cigarette out of their car..I saw a sign on a Oregon freeway that said something like $10,000 fine for each cigarette butt.
Those people do not have any respect of their surrounding or other people.

 

I don't unless it is biodegrateble. Then I don't care becsue it will decompose soon, or something will eat it.

 

I agree, I hate litter. Sometimes I may have a little clutter in my car because I will not toss anything out. Here in WA we have a big "litter and it will hurt" campaign going with radio ads explaining the new steeper fines - I think that a cig butt out the window will cost about $1,000. A gum wrapper about $500. I think the fines should be even more! As far as I'm concerned, biodegradable is NOT okay! Your half eaten whatever may decompose, but it takes a long time and I don't want to watch it rot on my street! The animals that may come along soon enough to eat it are a nusance - don't feed the rats, throw your trash away!

 

I admit it, I litter when in a heavy suburban area or in a city, just because there is so much other trash around my little piece won't matter. But, while im on a hike or anywhere in the thick of nature, I will not litter because I don't want to ruin something so beautiful.

 

You have to aware of where you are throwning, I would throw a half eaten apple in the middle of the high way, by biodegradeble I meant toss it in the woods. I always do that if I neeed to.

 

It's good to hear you use your head shaz - I just feel pretty strongly about not littering. I've seen garbage that had been tossed on the sidewalk outside my apartment sit there for weeks covered in flies (as much as I hate littering and won't do it, I don't pick up after other people either...not my job) - it was pretty gross and I wondered if the person who left the litter hadn't thought: oh, the birds will eat it...

 

You know what bothers me more than littering? Smokers, who hate litterers, yet throw their cigarette butts wherever they please.

It's littering people, where do you think those butts go? If you smoke, dispose of your cigarette, do not simply through it on the ground. I don't want the ground I share looking like an ash tray.

 

Very true! In fact, cig butts are the worst kind of litter - it's litter, AND its on fire!

 

I also hate litterers, especially those who are 'live your life this way animal right protestors etc'. They really do my swede in.

I've always stashed litter in my pockets, probably due to my upbringing as my dad was a keen wild lifer etc. I do admittidly throw away food scraps as I theres always seagulls or someother cretin near by that'll feast on it.

I'm quite proud to say that I have had an impact on my socail group in that those who I hang around with rarely drop litter and will always horde it uintil a bin is near, qualities they never possessed when I first met them.

 

This is so true...What makes it even worse is when I see people throwing their butts out their car window.

 

I hate mooning too.

 

Pet peeve of mine too, people are so lazy or unthinking they don't use a waste basket even if it's within arms reach. Extremely annoying, it's like living on a garbage dump in some places.

I saw a funny bit on TV about a street sweeper, she particularily talked about a taxi lane outside a train station, the curb where the taxi cabs lined up is always full of fast food junk, cigarette butts and whatnot, and hard to clean because of the cabs. What was ironic was the cab drivers complained about the litter, it looked bad to their customers, when the only people throwing stuff there was the drivers themselves. Very arrogant and unthinking...

 

I've got nothing against smoking but, I'm in no hurry to rally to "Smoker's Rights" causes because of this very thing.

In MICH we have a bottle return law that does help immensely to alleviate alot of the trash that strews the ground. $.10 a bottle or can.

 

Littering gets to me as well. Just the lazyness and disrespect that so many people have makes me angry. Where I leave, it is really common for people to flick out their cigarette butts, and even empty their ash tray at a stop light.

For those who might have seen it, there was a Simpsons episode where a litterer threw out a can and Bette Midler chased them down and threw the can back into the truck, causing the driver to lose control and fly off of the road. Someday I will get the chance to do the same.

jtbp

 

I hate litterers too. I have even gone so far as to turn the license plate numbers of litterers into the local PDs. People are so rude, it just pisses me off. Like they're the only ones on the street. At least three or four times a week, I have to walk around my yard and pick up other people's cigarette butts, candy wrappers, discarded lighters, drink containers, sandwich bags, etc. Auto manufacturers might as well stop putting ash trays in cars, because they don't get used anyway.