LITTERING: I don't get it.

[newbury]

There had been one slightly bright side to littering for me. After Vermont started a deposit on cans and bottles my buddy (RIP) and I would go out on our bicycles with BIG bags just after the snow melted. In a 10 mile loop we would find probably $10 worth of cans. Bottles were heavy so we might not pick them up.

 

[wedge40]

For the people on here collecting trash, I commend you.. I hate people who litter and have always wanted to follow a few to find out where they live, then show up in the middle of the night with a garbage truck and dump it in the middle of their yard.

But a word of warning. Be careful of plastic bottles with liquid in it. They have started to do portable meth labs in them and this is a by product and is very toxic. I don't mean to scare anyone from being a good samaritan, but just be careful.

Wedge

 

[tcartwri]

I can't remember which hwy it is, but on a trip to Las Vegas we became aware of this intense band of shimmering reflections on the shoulder of the hwy. It was smashed glass as far as the human arm could throw a bottle from a moving car. Pretty incredible sight.

 

[von-mil]

I can't remember which hwy it is, but on a trip to Las Vegas we became aware of this intense band of shimmering reflections on the shoulder of the hwy. It was smashed glass as far as the human arm could throw a bottle from a moving car. Pretty incredible sight.

I saw the same thing last spring while driving through the Four Corners region of Utah/Colorado. I was on Utah state hwy 162 which becomes Colorado SH 41. Practically every square inch along both sides of the road had broken glass on it. This went on for miles and miles. Incredible - and incredibly sad.

 

[Bird]

The littering seems to be a problem all over the country, and yep, it's hard, if not impossible, to understand. We have a city park with soccer, baseball, and football fields, but also a fair sized pond with fishing allowed, piers, picnic tables, etc., and then a large heavily wooded area with trails winding all around through it. The trails are for bicycles and hiking or dog walking, even horses (though I've not seen any horses there yet); just no motorized vehicles.

Of course there's a very convenient trash barrel at each pier and at each picnic location, and yet people throw their trash on the ground or leave it on the tables.

 

[Bob Ha]

I pick up all kinds of stuff on our 1/2 mile blacktop frontage road. It's a scenic route that many motorcycle groups cruise. We pick up beer cans, baby diapers, clothes, toilets and anything else you can imagine. The one that upsets me the most are farmers with their feed bags. For certain you would think they know better and appreciate their surroundings more than most. When the feed bag is empty they just throw it on the back of the flat bed hoping it will blow off. I'm certain they do this on purpose, happens too often not to be on purpose.

 

[dmccarty]

Sunday I was walking a trail along a local river taking photographs. The amount of trash is not TOO bad but it is there. Some of it is from the river flooding but most of it is from people fishing from the bank. Beer cans, smoke butts, plastic wrap from smoke packs, worm containers, dirty diapers, plastic food bags, etc. I have seen this for years around public access areas for fishing. Where I was Sunday was a good one to two miles from parking. The farther away you get from the parking area the less trash but it is still there.

Everyone on that trail is there to "enjoy" nature. How they can just toss the trash is amazing.

Years ago there was a trailer along a major road in our county. The people in the trailer would take their trash outside and just put it in the woods. The trash was in white plastic bags so it was real easy to see the trash.

Saturday I was in a local city in a bad area of town. Some people had well maintained houses and yards. Much better yards than mine. :laughing: Then there were the other houses with trash all over the place. The city does pick up the trash. All you have to do is put it in the can and they will pick it up for you.....

People are pigs, sorry Oscar.

Later,
Dan

 

[DNC]

Why must smokers litter. Look around at the next median when you're stopped. Nasty habit made worse. They must not want to smell that cap either.

 

[DNC]

Smokers are the worse. Nasty habit made worse.

 

[Bob77064]

We live on a dead end street with two other dead end streets attached to it. There are only about 20 homes and no through traffic. But I still have tp pick up cans and bottles in my yard.