LITTERING: I don't get it.

[bigtiller]

My town's garbage collection fee is included in the water & sewer bill. If you pay for running water, you get a visit from the garbage man once a week.

My state also has a bottle redemption law that has helped quite a bit but there are still people that could care less about the mess they make for someone else to clean up.

 

[300UGUY]

I wish Michigan would extend our bottle deposit bill to cover all food containers. We seldom see a bottle or can on the roadside, it's worth as much as 20 cent. We see lots of McDonalds containers, water bottles, empty "energy drink" bottles.

 

[jinman]

My neighbor walks on our road and picks up trash along the way. She probably keeps the litter down to nothing just by herself. What a great neighbor she is.:thumbsup: I do know that you need to pick up trash and don't let it build up. Trash seems to attract more trash.

Our quantity of trash on our road has dropped dramatically since one family moved away and one alcoholic passed away. I don't think I ever saw this one fellow without a beer in his hand and his brand of beer cans were everywhere on our road.

 

[whistlepig]

My neighbor across the street and I each mow about 1000 feet of road frontage. When my neighbor mows he will walk across the road and pick up any trash that's on my side of the road. When I mow I do the same for him. One the few things that really p***ses me of is people throwing thrash out of their cars.

 

[newbury]

The problem is parents - they never taught the children to not litter.

About 35 years ago I was conducting a geology field recon with a team of 4, including one college junior summer hire, near Martinsburg, WV. It was warm and we had picked up dinner at a fast food joint and were on the way back to DC.

We were going along a country road at about 50mph. The darn kid, who was riding shotgun, wadded up his trash and I thought he was going to put it at his feet. Instead he looked around and tossed it out the window. I slammed on the brakes.

After he carefully scraped his face off the windshield I and the other three people started a lecture, he went out and picked everything up, and we continued to lecture him most of the way back.

Some people think the world is their trashcan, even well educated people.

 

[Pete Judd]

We have the biggest problem around hunting season. I live on a small road that turns into a logging road. During hunting season, booze bottles, beer cans and other junk gets dumped along the road. Hate finding it with the mower.

 

[Jstpssng]

Some of my coworkers throw their dead GPS batteries into the woods argueing that they're just returning them to the soil. I carry mine out, although I do leave the empty flagging rolls behind. Considering the amount of ribbon we hang through the woods I'm not sure that either of the former items really matter?)

 

[creekbend]

Rest assured that I am not posting again in this thread to obtain praise or accolades in any manner. As I stated earlier, my Son and I pick up trash on the surrounding roadway once a week. Around 5:00pm, after taking our inside dog for her twice daily run, we decided to travel the road since we were already in the golf cart. We filled up a 33 gallon lawn trash bag completely full, and had several larger items in the back floorboard. We collect the trash in smaller bags that our groceries come in from Walmart, and then deposit that trash in the larger lawn bag. It is a battle that is never really won, but doing this helps keep our area clean. People even have the audacity to toss trash out when they see that you are clearing the ditches and sides of the road.

 

[Ken]

A friend and I were sitting on front porch talking when noticed a pick-up stop near intersection and edge of our property.
Then the driver started to toss tires over brush and berry vines. We walked over and told him to retrieve the tires and other stuff he had tossed.When finished told him he had set a good example to his kids sitting in truck watching.

This same neighbor earlier had awoke to his dogs barking and looking out window saw a man draging bags out of his car. Quickly running out with a shotgun stopped the man from dumping and told him to reload the trash The dumper made a improper remark and the neighbor made him pick up all the trash for about 1/8th of a mile filled the car. and then told him to return to the city or burn the trash it was up to him. Watched the car return to the city direction .
This reduced the trash for a while.
No need to call the sheriff or police it is useless unlee he sees the tossing cannot file a charge of dumping.
On my 1/2 mile of highway frontage the trash will fill a pick-up bed monthly. Have had some tossed out while cleaning up.
ken

 

[CompactTractorFan]

It really is insane. People dump trash and cigarettes on our lawn all the time. We get even more trash from loose garbage blowing around on trash day.

The worst was the time I was standing on the lawn, and a car drives by, rolls down the window, and dumps out a bag of trash while I am standing there...:confused2: