Do you litter?

[ThaddeusDeVilliers]

Do you litter?

When you create rubbish and waste from wrapping, containers and boxes, do you leave it lying around in public and just walk away?

Do you care if someone litters?

Is there circumstances that makes you think its ok to litter?

 

[Corty]

I’m not an animal, no. And anyone who does needs whipping publicly.

 

[Sylver]

Nope

 

[Alski]

You should go outside and survey the younglings.

 

[Lysander_Works]

Waiting for that one person to vote yes...

 

[harrydouthwaite]

I'm actually the complete opposite. In my jurisdiction we have refundable deposits on drink containers (pop, juice, water, milk, alcohol) and I obsessively remove them from garbage cans and collect them in bags to return for a refund (10 cents for each one).
Littering is bad, but so is putting refundables in the garbage, or filling said refundables with cigarette butts/ash.

 

[JHarp]

Back when I used to go outside, like a decade or two ago I think it was, I still didn't litter, because I'd have bags and pouches and everything to put anything in.

If I can pick up rocks for a collection what makes you think I can't find a use for the bottle I just drank from?
Especially the crisp packets, they used to be made out of proper plastic that you could heat them up with a flame to shrink them into mini keychains and the like, the oven was safest for shrinking the packets.

 

[LoominMoon]

I would like to think that anyone with enough sense to read and/or write should know that littering is unacceptable.

With the votes currently standing at 20 vs 0, I am proud of this community

 

[T.H-Scribe]

One of the greatest dishonors possible... Creating messes you do not clean up.

 

[CountVanBadger]

I would burn fields, demolish cities, spread plagues, and drive every cute, furry creature on this planet to extinction. But I would never, ever litter.

 

[Florestes]

It’s always mind boggling contemplating why it’s something that happens so often when there are dumpsters/trash cans available?! Why is it necessary to drive out of the city to dump your 1-3 shopping bags full of trash off road where normal people go for walks?
Even if your personal/house trash collection is full right now, WHY dump your garbage outside where it will be decorating the environment for years?!?

 

[Hans.Edward.Trondheim]

No, I don't. I'd even fill my pockets with trash if there's nothing around to throw the garbage. And carry it with me until I find something to throw it in.

My fellow Flips, however, do. Last time I was disgusted when I saw mayonnaise packets discarded in the supposedly 'clean' drawer filled with hotdog sandwich wrappers in my local 7-11.

And the trash bin is just a glass pane away.

 

[ArchlordZero]

I do, but with small garbage only. Tiny enough that nobody would notice.
So hail Satan, I guess

 

[JHarp]

we whine and fret about swatches of paper, a biodegradable product of trees.

We whine and fret about metals and cans, some of which cause heavy metal contamination for years in the soils, poisoning and degrading the land
A non-biodegradable 'product' of rocks.

And we do it online. At our phones and computers. Which are powered by lithium. Which must be stored for centuries, like spent nuclear waste. Hell. The biggest virtue signallers among use lithium to power their cars.

And we do it online, a social and mechanical tool designed for sharing information in the long term which is a completely different conflated direction of harm! Which still do not cancel each other out and don't suddenly introduce blatant hypocrisy.

Why I don't use this forum half the time is these completely unfiltered category shifts, thank you for mixing personal-scale litter with industrial pollution, let me just shut down my personal lithium mine because you found the hidden hypocrisy in asking people not to throw rubbish on the ground.

Congratulations, multiple problems of different scales, importance and degrees can exist at the same time, with both being bad, but one being something you can personally account for and improve on in the short term through raising awareness.

This civilization is doomed.

At this rate, I'm inclined to believe you based on your own merits.

 

[JayMark]

No, cows and bulls have one at a time.

 

[Jerynboe]

I litter, technically. My rule is that if something is biodegradable, like an apple core or banana peel, I feel no shame as long as I’m tossing it into a space that has minimal foot traffic and a dirt floor. Plastic, metal, or highly processed/waxy paper, stuff that won’t rot away in a few weeks at most? Nah. I keep that till I find a trashcan.

Im a delivery driver. If I’m in a rural area, the remains of the apple I eat for lunch is gonna get yeeted into a random forest on the side of the road.

 

[Alski]

The lithium batteries in a Tesla S-type require as much energy for their manufacture as a normally aspirated four cylinder car consumes over five years.

Have you got a source for this? I know in my country the payoff for the average EV battery is less than 2 years because we use large amounts of renewable energy.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

No. Im fact In regularly use a bucket and one of those claw thongs to pick up trash around my local park

 

[morgan_arlen]

I feel like littering indicates a lack of respect for one's surroundings, and ultimately, oneself.

 

[Redemit]

Depends what it is
If its like a paper straw wrapper sure I know it will breakdown pretty fast
Napkins take longer but will also pretty quickly breakdown

Harder papers and cardboard go in my fire pit

Plastic metal or glass is a big no though those go to the future Plastic mines aka the landfill