LITTERING: I don't get it.

[jymbee]

We live in a very rural area and I often hike or bike the back roads around here. I'd wager anyone a fair amount that they couldn't walk any more than a couple hundred feet in any direction without coming across beer cans, or soda/water bottles, or food wrappers or some other litter that some slob has just tossed out the window.

Maybe not up there with toxic waste or global warning in pure environmental impact terms, but I just can't understand why people think that their car window is a handy trash can.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Hopefully you are seeing contributions predominantly from the young before they figure out why they shouldnt.:confused3:
larry

 

[ncnurseryman]

I see it too. They throw it in my yard and nursery yard. I think they just don't care and are lazy. speaks to their character or lack thereof.

 

[tractchores]

Never understood it myself.

 

[bigtiller]

Sometimes throwing stuff out of the window just won't get the job done! They have to stop, get out and open the trunk or tailgate. The half mile gravel road from me to town has a b-b-q grill, part of a kitchen cupboard, and a 13 gallon plastic garbage sack. Last fall there was a dead white tail deer laying on a blue tarp.

 

[creekbend]

That type of behavior can be regarded as disrespect, laziness, lack of manners or concern for others. Once a week, our Son and I take the golf cart and travel about 2 miles of the roads adjacent to our property, picking up litter. The trash consists mainly of beer cans, beer bottles, liquor bottles, fast food trash, soda containers-both plastic bottles and cans; etc. Due to the increase in metal prices, we rarely see old washing machines; etc anymore. Occasionally we retrieve old tires. I have seen people litter my entire life and I really don't for see any change or improvement in the near future. We just try our best to keep our locale somewhat cleaner. We live in a rural area, and the County we live in has only a population of 23,000.

 

[rsewill]

We pay $1 for pickup and disposal of a 30 gallon bag. Pretty cheap. Yet as we walk our rural road there is trash everywhere. Usually it is fast food stuff that someone is too lazy to carry from their vehicle to their trash. And lots of cigarette butts from careless slobs who would let a field burn rather than use an ash tray. Poor parenting.

 

[Buckgnarly]

My neighbors growing up used to throw trash in their OWN driveway! It was about 300' long....guess they were too lazy to carry it in the house

 

[Jstpssng]

We live in a very rural area and I often hike or bike the back roads around here. I'd wager anyone a fair amount that they couldn't walk any more than a couple hundred feet in any direction without coming across beer cans, or soda/water bottles, or food wrappers or some other litter that some slob has just tossed out the window.

Maybe not up there with toxic waste or global warning in pure environmental impact terms, but I just can't understand why people think that their car window is a handy trash can.

The smaller stuff is just laziness. The bigger stuff such as couches, tires, and refrigerators, often get dumped because people are too cheap to pay the disposal fees which many towns charge
As Creekbend said, much of thei white goods are now disappearing with the price of scrap iron being up
I hope someday they find a largescale use for old tires; there are way too many scattered around the landscape or taking up space in landfills.

 

[dmccarty]

People are pigs. Well maybe pigs are better than people and I apologize to Oscar and his kin.

In our county you just have to have a sticker on your vehicle to dump at a collection center. Heck, I bet now a days most of the attendants do not check for the sticker. The only reason we have a sticker is that for years we did not and people from neighboring counties who were charged to dump in their counties would dump for free in our county. The amount of garbage collected in our county dropped pretty steeply after the sticker requirement.

Places that tax to dump are very short sided since some people will just dump illegally. Some people will illegally dump regardless.

A few years ago the property next to us was subdivided and the lot lines cleared such that a tractor or truck could drive down the line. I walked down one of the intersecting lot lines and someone had dumped a bunch of garden trash on those lots. They had to drive off road a good 300-400 feet to dump the trash. At the road they had dumped two 2 ton jacks they had ruined so they just thew them out.

The people HAVE to go near the trash collection station because the only two grocery stores within 15-20 miles are located near the dump station. The illegal dumpers spent more time illegally dumping than it would have taken then to go to the legal dump. People are just flat out stupid.

On the other hand a lot of trash blows out the back of trucks and on a lake, boats. I have been walking on Corp of Engineer land over the last few weeks and there is quite a bit of trash that has floated in from the lake. I don't think people thew the trash in the water though I am sure some did. Deep in the woods I have found all sorts of trash that was carried in years ago. Some, most, of it was from before the lake was flooded.

Later,
Dan