Go to work and find someone trespassed on property.

[MossRoad]

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What you don't see out west is trash along some of the most beautiful stretches of creeks and rivers like you see here. It is different out there I promise.

Sure you do. You just have to look closer. It's easy not to see the plastic waste when things are lush and green. Go in fall or winter before snowfall when there's no leaves on the brush. You'll find plastic everywhere. And cigarette butts. I've never been to a place where I cannot fine a cigarette butt.

 

[Molalla1]

Yeah, we have that around here as well. It is sad and those people could care less about littering when they are fighting for survival. But it still disgusts me when I see it.

What you don't see out west is trash along some of the most beautiful stretches of creeks and rivers like you see here. It is different out there I promise.

You are right, it's because they (the homeless) want to be close to the free money/free benefits that the cities provide . . . Which is fine with me.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Sure you do. You just have to look closer. It's easy not to see the plastic waste when things are lush and green. Go in fall or winter before snowfall when there's no leaves on the brush. You'll find plastic everywhere. And cigarette butts. I've never been to a place where I cannot fine a cigarette butt.

A cig butt is a lot different than a bag of diapers or a couch.

 

[MossRoad]

A cig butt is a lot different than a bag of diapers or a couch.

Trash is trash. The world is not your ashtray.

 

[Molalla1]

Trash is trash. The world is not your ashtray.

Moss, I understand where you are coming from, I use to smoke (camel straights) for many years . . . years ago ashtrays were full and pretty much most people smoked . . . heck they gave us cigarettes in our rations When did they stop putting cigarettes in C rations? – Restaurantnorman.com. I hate them too my one son (44) smokes like a chimney, and when he has been at our place I find them (butts) I hate it.

 

[Rockbadchild]

A CAN OF GASOLINE OR KEROSENE, PROBLEM SOLVED

still have to pickup the springs afterwards tho

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Moss, I understand where you are coming from, I use to smoke (camel straights) for many years . . . years ago ashtrays were full and pretty much most people smoked . . . heck they gave us cigarettes in our rations When did they stop putting cigarettes in C rations? – Restaurantnorman.com. I hate them too my one son (44) smokes like a chimney, and when he has been at our place I find them (butts) I hate it.

I wonder what soldiers played low stakes poker with after the cigs went away with MREs? As a non-smoker, I always had tubular currency in every meal.

 

[Molalla1]

I wonder what soldiers played low stakes poker with after the cigs went away with MREs? As a non-smoker, I always had tubular currency in every meal.

. . .

 

[PhilG327]

No different here in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin. Every spring the county has a roadside cleanup day, but nobody comes out here in the hollow. I always try to spend the day taking care of my 1,000ft of roadside and manage most years to fill a big garbage bag of beer cans & bottles, plastic bottles, fast food containers and household trash. (I'm only 5miles from the landfill) Not counting the big stuff: broken ladder, wiring harness with starter motor attached, along with a roll of rusty barbed wire, one muffler and two computers with old CRT monitors. Had to pay the recycling center $15 each to take the monitors

 

[Jstpssng]

Had to pay the recycling center $15 each to take the monitors

That's why people are dumping them on you, instead. The worst I've ever seen was on a side road near the landfill in Milford ME; a 1/4 mile on each side of the road was lined with a steady mound of trash. Apparently people would back up to the end of the row and unload their pickup.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Trash is trash. The world is not your ashtray.

Well I do not smoke, so no, the world is not MY ashtray.

Yes I agree, I get just as pissed when I see someone throw their butt out the window as I do when they throw their coke bottle out.

 

[ponytug]

Did you hear about the folks trying to use wild crows to clean up cigarette buts in Sweden?

I enjoyed the bit about the trainability of crows vs humans.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Molalla1]

A crow is one smart bird . . . .

 

[Alien]

We have a small village about 7 klm away. Lots of renters. Local tip is only 100 meters or so from the edge of the village but is only open on Sundays. Renters move out on Saturdays and nowhere to throw their junk so they dump it on the side of the road. Next time it happens I will be checking for any papers with names on it. It hasn't happened as much since rents started going sky high as that has put some of the rentals out of the lowliifes reaches. Something in favour of high rentals I guess.

 

[Molalla1]

We have a small village about 7 klm away. Lots of renters. Local tip is only 100 meters or so from the edge of the village but is only open on Sundays. Renters move out on Saturdays and nowhere to throw their junk so they dump it on the side of the road. Next time it happens I will be checking for any papers with names on it. It hasn't happened as much since rents started going sky high as that has put some of the rentals out of the lowliifes reaches. Something in favour of high rentals I guess.

Damn Alien, you are experiencing the same as up/over here . . . cities (large) have a way to attract this . . . it's becoming a new world, I guess.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Damn Alien, you are experiencing the same as up/over here . . . cities (large) have a way to attract this . . . it's becoming a new world, I guess.

When I was growing up in the 50's, this state was very conscious of littering..."Every Litter Bit Hurts" was the motto, and we heard it on the radio and TV...and "Don't Mess With Texas". Most of us older folks did not, and still do not, throw anything from our cars or dump trash on the road. Consequently, our roadsides were very clean. Plastic bags were not in wide use like they are today, so most stuff deteriorated after about a year or so.

Today's generation seems to care less; trash is somebody else's problem. I see a lot of beer bottles and beer cans, diapers, plastic bags and other such crap today...and even the volunteer cleanup crews seem to have disappeared.

 

[Molalla1]

^^^^^ Yep, the gas stations use to hand out litter bags.

 

[lman]

When I was a kid it seemed like there were cigarette butts everywhere, now not so many butts but still too many beer cans along my road. Several years ago somebody dumped a Meth. lab down the road, now nobody cooks because mexican meth is cheap.

 

[9973720wb19]

after you clean it up, put a board down with nails coming through. that will teach them to trespass!

 

[Molalla1]

When I was growing up in the 50's, this state was very conscious of littering..."Every Litter Bit Hurts" was the motto, and we heard it on the radio and TV...and "Don't Mess With Texas". Most of us older folks did not, and still do not, throw anything from our cars or dump trash on the road. Consequently, our roadsides were very clean. Plastic bags were not in wide use like they are today, so most stuff deteriorated after about a year or so.

Today's generation seems to care less; trash is somebody else's problem. I see a lot of beer bottles and beer cans, diapers, plastic bags and other such crap today...and even the volunteer cleanup crews seem to have disappeared.

2Lane . . . . . . . . uh, uh . . . 40's