LITTERING: I don't get it.

[cdaigle430]

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.

I think those who do this have are selfish, lazy, self centered and I wonder why they live in a rural erea or bother to be in the country.

I know of several morons who own pickup trucks around here. They throw their trash in the bed of the pickup. I aks them if the know it has a good chance of blowing out and the usual reply I get is that they know and its how they keep the inside of the truck and bed clean. These morons dont care that it will blow out of the bed and into the roadside.

 

[kootch88]

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.

Same problem on my land that I allow hunters to use, but am considering closing to public use because of the litter. I don't understand how of all people hunters seem to be the worst effin pigs out there. Freaking piss jars, candy wrappers, hand warmer packets, ammuntion boxes and all kinds of trash. So I go out to hunt on my land on weekends and have to look and pick up this crap.

I remember when I was a kid it was worse though. The bottle law really helped to clean Maine's roadways up, and the trash is not as bad as it was in the sixties and seventies, but it is still enough of a problem that it makes me sick to see, especially on my own land.

 

[rekees4300]

I think those who do this have are selfish, lazy, self centered

+1 you hit the nail on the head

 

[jim_wilson]

I have overhead many discussions where people say "I paid my taxes to pay for someone to go out and pick up the trash - so it is okay if I throw it out." It seems many are teaching their young that being concerned with trash is for others to deal with. We have always taught our children and now grandchild to take care of the outdoors. Another local problem we have is the selective enforcement of the covered trash vehicle requirements. Alot of the debris is simply from the loose trash coming out of the transportation vehicles.

My answer to people like that is:

" Excellent point - please give me your address so I can come by your house and dump all my crap on your front lawn. Then you can call the town to come pick it up - just remind them that you're paying taxes for them to do this. I'm sure they'll get right on that".

 

[mjarrels]

Two places you don't want to live around here, on the road to the landfill and the road to a poutry kill plant. Trash and feathers every where.

mark

 

[Bird]

Two places you don't want to live around here, on the road to the landfill and the road to a poutry kill plant. Trash and feathers every where.

mark

I usually go to the Waste Management landfill once or twice a year when I prune trees in our yard, and in fact, took some limbs or brush, and other trash out there 3 days ago. But the road there is a good road and clean. I reckon there may be a couple of reasons it's clean. In the first place, with a water bill and drivers license that shows we're WM customers at home, it doesn't cost me anything to take stuff to the landfill myself, but I think there's a $30 charge if you go there without a tarp over your load. When I stop on the scales to check in, show ID, etc., the guy always asks what I have (under that tarp). And I don't really know, but I suspect WM has people keep any trash picked up along the road.

 

[Taylortractornut]

The storm we had at the first of the week we are taking brush free as long as its not mixed waste or contains household. I was following a truck comming in and the 2 boys in the bab threw out a Sonic bag into the pond and ontop of the haul road he threw out 2 bottles. They got banned for a days hauling and had to pick it up. Then at our shavings bin a horse owner and his helper got out and loaded a load of shavings on a trailer. after they left there was a pile of garbage from underthe passenger side of the truck. We called him and told him that his helper needed to come out Monday and pick up his mess or no more shavings.

 

[sld]

I was working in my garage one day and heard the sound of breaking glass as a car was driving by. I looked out and saw a brown paper bag lying in the street. I grabbed a 5 gallon bucket and walked out there and picked up the broken quart bottle of beer, put it in the bucket and set it in the back of my truck. I followed the guy home and went up to his porch. After dumping the bucket on his porch I rang the door bell. The guy and his wife answered the door and I told them that he left this in front of my house and I thought I would give it back to him.

Turns out, he had just had a DUI and his wife was giving him the business for drinking again. I smiled and said good luck with that and left.

I did a lot of stupid stuff as a punk teenager but we never stole, vandalized or littered. That stuff gets me worked up in a hurry.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yes sir, officer Obie, I put that envelope under that 1/2 a ton of garbage. :laughing:

Mostly beer related litter in my front yard, since they don't want to get caught with an open container in their vehicles. I also get several trucker bombs, since there is a lot of truck traffic on my road.
Watch out for the bottle bombs, that will explode when picked up.

 

[Daronspicher]

The smokers is the one I don't understand.

Seems no one would stand in a group waiting for the light to change and throw down their McDonald's bag, but every smoker will throw down that butt comfortably.

Same with them tossing it out the window when heading down the road. Hard to see during the day, but at night I see the sparks bounce all the time. I never see that fast food bag fly out the window.

There is plenty of garbage in the ditch to suggest that the bigger stuff goes out the window also, just can't think of the last time I was following someone and saw it.

Smokers... All the time, no reservations...

Why is that?

-Daron