300UGUY
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That's why I said "all consumer packaging". It would be a huge pia to the fast food folks, but it would keep the clutter down.
Some people are Pigs
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That's why I said "all consumer packaging". It would be a huge pia to the fast food folks, but it would keep the clutter down.
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Night is the worst... the Hospital Parking Lot at one time has had all manner of discards...
One of the worst for me was someone changed their oil by letting it all run out on the parking lot...
Major appliances or parts of them are pushed off the back of a truck for someone else to clean up after.
Ever since Waste Management raised the dump fees... costs a lot to dump... the problem has expanded exponentially.
I've gone on a number of Law Enforcement ride-alongs and the officers are very quick if they see someone tossing trash out the window... it's intentional with utter disregard and I'm all for writing the citations...
One of the worst for me was someone changed their oil by letting it all run out on the parking lot...
Major appliances or parts of them are pushed off the back of a truck for someone else to clean up after.
Ever since Waste Management raised the dump fees... costs a lot to dump... the problem has expanded exponentially.
I've gone on a number of Law Enforcement ride-alongs and the officers are very quick if they see someone tossing trash out the window... it's intentional with utter disregard and I'm all for writing the citations...
I see that as part of the problem too...years ago here in SC I went to one of the collection centers and had an old boat trailer tire among other trash. They would not let me leave the tire there, said I had to take it to the main facility 10 miles away.
It suddenly became clear why I see so many discarded tires in ditches etc...
One of my main gripes, too.... I work as an aide in a middle school; you can't walk in any direction from anywhere without passing a trash can within 25' or so, yet junk still makes it to the floor. Heaven help the kid I see do it.
Does it say somewhere on those pull-tab plastic bottle caps "To open: 1. Pull tab 2. Drop on floor"..... Arrghh!!
One of the "other things" I try to teach our young..... I go quite ballistic when a confronted-for-littering child says, "That's what we have janitors for."
When I see a student go to a trash can and put something in, I make sure I give 'em a pat on the back!
OK, time to calm down now.....
Does it say somewhere on those pull-tab plastic bottle caps "To open: 1. Pull tab 2. Drop on floor"..... Arrghh!!
One of the "other things" I try to teach our young..... I go quite ballistic when a confronted-for-littering child says, "That's what we have janitors for."
When I see a student go to a trash can and put something in, I make sure I give 'em a pat on the back!
OK, time to calm down now.....
Quite possible, though in the relatively liberal suburbs of Geneve I don't think it would have been "more likely".
It is 2nd., 3rd hand story since a neighbor of his explained to him what the other neighbor had been complaining about.
No French, no German, no Italian, but he could get by in an international city.
dave1949
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I see now.
Don't know how that would work in reality. Some of the packaging is being made more quickly bio-degradable at least.Dave.
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Like to share a story with y'all. This happened many years ago when I was living in Phoenix, AZ. While attending college, I worked in a "service station" (give you an idea how long ago this was)?
Anyway, next door to the station was a Fish and Chips place, a young couple went to the drive through window, got their order and then parked on our lot to eat. I watched the passenger drop a bag of trash out the car window and onto our lot. I just casually walked on over to the car, picked up the bag of trash and handed to the young lady sitting inside the car. I told her, "I think you dropped this".
She looked at me DUMBfounded and I walked away. Her boyfriend started the car and they drove off. They probably threw the trash out the window some where down the street.
Some people are Pigs.:smiley_aafz:
Anyway, next door to the station was a Fish and Chips place, a young couple went to the drive through window, got their order and then parked on our lot to eat. I watched the passenger drop a bag of trash out the car window and onto our lot. I just casually walked on over to the car, picked up the bag of trash and handed to the young lady sitting inside the car. I told her, "I think you dropped this".
She looked at me DUMBfounded and I walked away. Her boyfriend started the car and they drove off. They probably threw the trash out the window some where down the street.
Some people are Pigs.:smiley_aafz:
Ridgewalker
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I have a half mile of highway frontage on my place, every time I am there I have a new batch of fast food trash to pick up. Most of it seems to collect in a little draw and then it will float to the back of property in a wet weather creek if I don't catch it in time.
What fires me up is smokers who think the world is their ash tray. I have done the "you dropped something" trick with a burning butt someone tossed from their car. It's kinda fun to watch them start slapping and hopping in their seat trying to locate their burning butt.
If a cigarette is so disgusting they don't want it's remains in their car why would they put it in their mouth in the first place? Disgusting!
What fires me up is smokers who think the world is their ash tray. I have done the "you dropped something" trick with a burning butt someone tossed from their car. It's kinda fun to watch them start slapping and hopping in their seat trying to locate their burning butt.
If a cigarette is so disgusting they don't want it's remains in their car why would they put it in their mouth in the first place? Disgusting!
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Where we live, it is kinda like a neighborhood with land. There is a retired neighbor that walks the local road daily for exercise and says every day he ends up picking up trash from people passing through. When ever i'm out either grading the road or filling pot holes I'll pick up trash and bring it to the trash at home. It is a little dissapointing that even people in our own neighborhood dump trash on other neighbor's properties.
RadarTech
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It is nice in SC.. I have several co-workers and friends in SC..
In the counties they live in they can go to the landfill for Free!!!
Here in NC, we have to pay for almost everything!!
Henderson county has the 1 and 1 program -- 1 bad of trash for 1 bag of recycling for free... Equal amounts....
Later,
J
