That sadly, many choose not to do.:-(

It's probably bad parenting, but I tell my daughter that people who litter are bad people. I can probably put it better, but she's young, simple is good, and so litterers=bad people. I honestly think that to essentially be true, because if you litter, you've essentially internally rationalized your entitlement to make your shit someone else's problem. Right there with people who don't put their carts back.

That being said, I do also say to her that sometimes the wind will carry trash from a receptacle, and that sometimes folks have difficulty ambulating, and so there are exceptions.

I'm going to rant here because your comment re-ignited my rage.

My family and I have weekly dinners. I drive over there and pass through their neighborhood. They own a successful business so it's a pretty nice neighborhood with a good median of trees down the main road passing through (still a 25 MPH speed limit). And every week for several years now, there is a discarded Pepsi can in the median. Not the same can, but a new can every week. Someone drives through there, likely multiple times a week and I'm just not there to see it,, and throws a Pepsi can in roughly the same spot.

It enrages me. It's so senseless and selfish that I cannot even fathom a reason. My best justification is that they're a person who is "sticking it to the rich" by littering in a nice neighborhood, but that's being extremely generous. I am convinced it's purposeful because the consistency is staggering. A new can in the same 100 feet of road, every day.

And I know it's not the same can because if it snows, the snow obscures the cans and the poor hero picking them up can't see them, so when the snow melts there are several cans littered about.

It genuinely makes me so angry, because it's so inexplicably terrible. I just hate things I can't understand. It makes me more angry than Donald Trump because at least with Trump, on some level I get it. I may hate what he's doing but I can logically see why he's doing it and that understanding is almost calming, in a sense.

But this? Absolute nonsense. I just cannot see why someone would do this

I'll admit it, though I'm not proud of it. I used to throw trash out the car window all of the time when I was in highschool (idk if I thought it was funny, or I was being cool, or just truly didn't consider it). It hurts to think about my dumbass doing that in the past, but it happened

Now I don't even throw my cigarette butts on the ground. I twist them out and put them in my pocket until I can find a proper trash can. I pick up other litter when I can and even raked an entire campsite of beer cans/trash thrown around (I was just hiking and stumbled upon it, but I couldn't leave it without doing something). So hopefully I've earned a little good-litter-karma back for all the fuckery I caused as a dumb teen

I only did it once when I was young and my uncle gave me the stare and told me to pick it up and put it in my pocket. That's really all it took to teach me it was wrong amd have never littered since, at least not intentionally.

In actual civilised countries, people do think like that, teach their kids to think like that, and call out people who don't respect their environment.

It's a societal problem at your end probably

In Japan I had no idea how to get rid of rubbish. The only way I knew how was to find the Mc Donald's and throw our trash away there.

I don't know why they don't have public bins.

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In all fairness. It's nice to have clean spaces as well.

Yes, if a) you were raised with such values? Common sense? Both? And b)if your city has a lot of thrash cans. I'm surrounded by a lack of both so the meme is accurate to the folks that keep trash in their pockets until they get to a trashcan.

Correction: your city has trashcans everywhere

I have a mint wrapper in my back pocket from three days ago, I've seen countless trash cans. This shit is getting thrown away when I wash em, become one with the trash.

They were never in style, they are a lifestyle.

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