Rant about litterbugs

[april come she will]

Yesterday I saw a grown-ass man and his woman walking on the other side of the street. He caught my eye because I saw little white fluttering pieces of paper in the wind. He was ripping up his documents and simply tossing them onto the sidewalk like nothing was wrong and his woman didn't seem to think it was ignorant behavior.

One thing I notice is that 95% of litter is junk food. Can we make the correlation between low consciousness behavior and fast/junk food?

[MH1]

1. you'll always get a "grr, me too!" on a rant about litterbugs.

I always think, where the eff did these people grow up, and what the heck was wrong with their parents?

[april come she will]

3. My dad was very anal about litter on our lawn

He would go out there grumbling at the ignorance of the people. If I am nearby someone doing it, I will say "You dropped something!" and believe it or not, most will pick it up.

[Javaman]

2. moron smokers throwing cig butts out the window, drives me crazy. nt

[socialindependocrat]

8. Trash on the lawn

I have people who walk to the corner and get food in styrene boxes and when they finish their meal they throw the pacaging in my front yard.

We go out once a day and pick u a bag of trash that these idiots discard.

The thing is... if they walk 50 feet further there is a bus stop with a
trash can attached.

I want to put up signs saying thanks for the trash but the last time I
confronted someone I got my front windows shot with BB guns in
the middle of the night.

What a bunch of pigs!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. Absolutely

Even people who are otherwise conscientious about throwing their trash in receptacles sling cigarette butts around as though they just vanish once they leave the hand. (apologies to smokers who actually know what an ashtray is for) And cigarette butts are much less biodegradable than most fast food trash (ketchup packets & plasic straws notwithstanding)

[roguevalley]

21. litter shows someone's (lack of) quality. we have one world

and it insults here to do this. I almost got into a brawl but for the grace of God on the tube in London. A very expensively dressed woman was fussing with a candy bar, you know... long nails, fussy to show disdain of food. When we all were getting off she opened it and took the tiniest bite. Then she let it drop to the ground. You could have powered a city from the white hot rage I felt. Fucking pig 1%-er. I am still lit tweny years later.

[GoCubsGo]

4. I will join you in your rant.

I have been to some fairly isolated areas doing field work and bird counts. I have come across a lot of junk food wrappers, as well as furniture, tires, multiple full 48 gallon trash bags, you name it. And, deflated mylar balloons.. Those damn things are all over the place. A lot of the areas where I worked were floodplain swamps. People on the rivers just throw all their trash overboard. When the rivers are up into the swamp areas, all that garbage washes into it and is deposited there. It's horrible. I don't understand why people can't just hold onto the stuff for a few hours and stick it into a trash can.

[april come she will]

6. My thoughts exactly, especially when it comes to wrappers.

Can't you just keep it in your damn pocket? And funny enough, these are the same types who hock up phlegm all over the sidewalk because they just HAVE to release it in public where people walk...

[grasswire]

13. ew, that's my pet peeve -- the spitters

What is wrong with them? Some hock up big goobers. Others just continually spit every bit of saliva that gathers in their mouths. Teenagers and young adults seem particularly susceptible to this disgusting behavior. They do it at bus stops where people may put down grocery bags or other personal belongings. Sometimes I speak to them.

[SidDithers]

5. The most littered item in the world is cigarette butts...

The world-wide numbers are pretty staggering.
http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/cigaretteingredients/a/ciglitter.htm


Paper is at least biodegradeable. Cigarette butts - not so much.

Sid

[april come she will]

9. It's totally wrong, though

It infuriates me that that there are adults walking around with no class whatsoever. And that woman should have kicked his ass to the curb but she probably does the same thing. It's all bad. Paper should be recycled anyway! Another of my rants is when people throw newspapers in the trash while I save my papers until I find a bin!

[progressoid]

26. It can be disheartening.

The amount of waste we generate is staggering.

In the late 80's, I worked in the media dept of a public university. I was shocked to find out that they didn't recycle any of their paper waste. And there was a LOT of it. Apparently it was too much of a hassle. Hopefully by now they have changed their ways.

[miso honey]

27. I wish it were true...Even Whole Foods has changed their placement

of recycling bins to the entrance instead of the dining area. I assume it's because people never gave a shite and would throw trash in with recycling.

[TexasProgresive]

16. My sargent in basic training taught us to field strip cigarettes.

Roll out the remaining tobacco, tear off the paper and ball it up, flip it away (he smoked non filters so that was the end for him) he added, "If you smoke cigarettes with a tampon on it - put that in your pocket."

Since our barracks was across the street from the EM club and we had to police the area it on Monday mornings we became compulsive about not tossing butts.

I don't smoke any more but I still have memories.

[snooper2]

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I guess they come as children ass man besides just grown ass man since you were specific?


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[LeftinOH]

12. The presence of the hyphen critical-

a "grown ass man" is an adult male who likes ass. A "grown-ass man" is an adult male who IS an ass and/or does not act his age.

[progressoid]

15. Cosmo Kramer is...

[bvar22]

22. ...NOT that there is anything wrong with it.

[madmom]

10. I live close to a school football/track/baseball field. During their

respective seasons I and my hubby usually spent the day following their games picking up all sorts of trash that collects in our gardens and along fence lines. Everything from candy wrappers to coffee cups, so it would seems the perpetrators are extremely varied.

[LeftinOH]

11. I pick up trash from my yard *every* day. There is a lot of section-8 housing

around here, and there most certainly IS a pattern of litter-tolerating and litter-generating around some of those homes.

Broken glass on my sidewalk?: I clean it up as soon as I see it.
Fast food wrappers in the bushes out front?: I gather them up and toss them regularly. Trash strewn around the bus stop where I wait every morning?: I throw it out.

I'm no martyr, but I have little patience for the culture of civic irresponsibility.

[grasswire]

14. right now I need to go pick up two piles of dog poop from the neighbor dog...

.....on my front lawn.

[snooper2]

17. I usually just break that up in smaller pieces and throw it up in the air

Is called the dispersion theory LOL

[tallahasseedem]

18. I'm right there with you...

I work in North Philly and the litter is HORRIBLE! I witnessed more than a few people unwrapping a food item and then just throwing the wrapper on the ground. WTF?

[gratuitous]

20. Once upon a time, we had these things called PSAs

Stood for "public service announcements," and were part of the cost of a broadcast station doing business on the public airwaves. For the right to use Channel 6 UHF or FM radio band 101.9, the station had to devote a certain amount of ad time to public service announcements. I suppose they still do, but the requirements seem far lower, and are crowded out by the incessant ads for stuff you can't buy (like prescription drugs with more time devoted to how the drug is going to hurt you than how it might help you).

Some of those PSAs were about helping to prevent forest fires (drown your campfire, stir the ashes, then drown it again) or picking up after yourself (please, please don't be a litterbug). But we got to the point where anyone telling you anything is decried as "nanny statism," and we rugged individualist Americans don't want nobody telling us where to throw our cigarette butts. And anyone who does is probably the right hand man for Osama bin Laden.

I blame the Republicans.

[bvar22]

23. The plastic WalMart bags are the WORST.

The wind whips them into the tree tops where they stay for YEARS.
I live in a very rural area (Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas),
surrounded by many miles of National Forest,
and yet, when I drive through the country roads
these bags are visible in the tree tops everywhere.
especially during Winter.

One blew in from somewhere during a storm last Summer, and lodged about 35' up in a Hickory Tree behind my house.
It was visible through a back window every time I walked by.
I tried long sticks to knock it down, but it was too high.
I tried throwing rocks, but that was futile.
I tried to shoot it to pieces with my 12ga and bird shot.
After 10 shells, my shoulder was bruised, and the bag was perforated, but still clinging to the tree top,
and laughing at me.

Eventually, it had the power to ruin my day.
I HATED it every time I was forced to look at it, which was every day.
Last week, WalMart Plastic Bag met Mr. Chainsaw..
I cut down the tree and disposed of the plastic bag.
I did an endzone dance, and a HighFive with my wife.

The tree was cut into firewood.

[miso honey]

25. In my area, the Whole Foods banned plastic

I think it's nation-wide but I'm not sure. Trader Joe's always had paper. I bring tote bags most times.

[pansypoo53219]

24. my grandfather would take walks and pick up litter

he was rewarded by finding money. i do as much as i can. at least paper is biodegradable.