Roadside litter

GrantMO · Feb 23, 2002

Do you guys get much litter along your property? We only have about 750 feet of frontage but I pick up a bag of trash about every month. I think people around here litter more than other places.

s1120 · Feb 23, 2002

Na, I get it also. I have about 350ft of frontage and I could fill a bag every few weeks. I am hoping it lets up a bit when it looks like someone lives there.

rancar · Feb 23, 2002

This also is common on rural upstate New York roads. We have 1,400' road frontage. My wife and I go out at least twice a year (I refuse to do it more than that). We fill a good 5-6 5gal buckets, maybe more, of soda cans, beer cans, fast food wrappers, tires, bags of household garbage lazy and cheap people dump because they don't want to pay to get rid of it, even guts, skins, and heads of deer taken during hunting season. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif This last item we leave for nature to do its thing. I also climb down the embankments to retrieve garbage down there. One of last times I did this, I got entangled in poison oak or sumac. Scratched for weeks, wasn't happy. /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif We've come to accept this as part of living in the country or anywhere for that matter. The road does look better afterwards. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thomas · Feb 23, 2002

Yep..sure get my fair share of litter. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Since I live on a one way in and out road at a intersection,I'm sure 90% of the litter comes from people that live on this hill side. /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif

RobertN · Feb 23, 2002

My son found all kinds of junk on the 1.2 miles of private rounds in our neighborhood. He went out to pick up as part of his Cub Scout Wolf badge stuff.

It's bad enough on the public roads, but this is our neighbors being junky...

Anonymous Poster · Feb 23, 2002

I hate litter, so I always notice whenever I see anything being thrown out of a car or truck. I would say that around here I see trash blow out of the bed of a pickup twice as often as I see someone throw it out of a window. Anyone that throws wrappers or cans in the truck bed might as well throw it on the side of the road.

Andy

Boondox · Feb 23, 2002

We used to get a bit of McDonald's trash from folks ordering take out and driving up here to eat surrounded by nature...then leaving their trash. But the McTrash closed due to insufficient business last week, so we only get the occasional beer bottle now.

Pete

JoeR · Feb 23, 2002

I have seen trash blow out of pickup trucks too. When I worked at Disney World, I would park my truck in the employee lot for my 8-10 hour shift. One day, I leave work and get up to 55mph when I see trash flying out of the bed of my truck. People walking through the parking lot dumped trash in the bed of my truck!! You would not believe how often that happens. This was not isolated to Disney either. I was at college one day, and once again someone left a Burger King bag in the bed of the truck. People don't want the trash in their car, but they will put it into you truck!! The people who dump on the side of the road, are probably the same people who couldn't find a pickup truck to put it into first...

On another note, I get irate when I see people empty their ahstrays at a stop light. Can't they empty them into a trashcan whem they are getting gas??

Joe

turnkey4099 · Feb 23, 2002

I live right on US195. Used to the trash in the ditches. The worst was one day I hear a car pull off to the side in my driveway a minute and then leave. I walk around the house and find the mctrash bag sitting right in the middle of the drive.

Harry K