Three separate places I went to at 8 in the morning. Gas station, dunkin’ donuts, and then a convenience store. All of them, trash is full. People wonder why they litter in the USA, there’s nowhere to throw away trash when you’re out. It’s unbelievable People can just go to work and choose not to do their job anymore. That people see this and they don’t have any problem with it, no interest at all to keep things neat and tidy and clean. Nope.
Personally, if I see a full trash can I will keep my trash with me until I can find a place to dispose of it. I can’t imagine just throwing it on the ground regardless of the can situation.
I’ve had plenty of times where I get home and empty my pockets of the trash I accumulated with no can nearby.
And if I try to put something in a can and it falls out, I’m taking it with me because I didn’t succeed in throwing it away.
Shrugging ans saying “well I tried” as you walk away isn’t even trying.
Japanese people do that as trash bins are very rare. It is an education issue and not the lack/full of trash binsy
You’re a rare breed
I would pull the top of all of these (without breaking it) and make all the trash fit, or, if absolutely required, carry it as you say
Don’t. You will catch a needle doing that and get hepatitis.
I feel like the solution to having some trash while the trash can is full, is to…just carry it with you till you find an empty one?
otoh if you’re lazy and not the best person, and if it’s too much of a hassle to carry around…
…it should be legal for civilised people to nail it to your fucking forehead
Perhaps one should ask why there is so much trash to be thrown away in the first place.
Bins wouldn’t always be full if there was simply less trash to put in them.
I worked for a park for a summer and it was an eye opener I’ll tell you that much. They had someone (me!) basically just emptying trash cans all damn day and it wasn’t enough! They filled up constantly.
Your point is valid (as I read it “if you have less trash there will be less trash”) but the path you used to get there is illogical (as I read it “if I have less trash, but people empty the trash at the same rate, this would not be a problem”).
OPs complaint is not that trash produced exceeds our capacity to remove it, it’s that people are not removing it. This remains true regardless of quantity.
Maybe we should reduce the amount of shit we have to throw away.
But also maybe pay the garbage men fairly, and tell the business or municipality that the garbage collection is insufficient for their needs.
Don’t garbage men have surprisingly handsome pay? Or is that just an urban legend I’ve fallen for?
Yeah, OP is complaining to the internet when they should be bugging town council. Although they seem to think it’s just low-wage workers messing with them personally…
There’s a litter bin near my house in a rural area that the council has obviously forgotten about. It’s been full for weeks!
You should see the amount of litter scattered around
Oh wait, it’s absolutely none, because we’re not fucking selfish savages
No fucking excuses for littering, ever. That’s a societal problem, not a bin problem
Eh, It’s a bit of both. No amount of societal pressure will solve a complete absence of waste disposal infrastructure. It’s a matter of making sure the sense of shame and/or duty is greater than whatever distance there inevitably is to a working bin.
A bit of one and mostly the other. The other being “you don’t drop shit on the ground expecting someone to clean up after you”
You know, civilisation. Society. Decency
Really boils my piss
Careful, if you’re mad that people are shit you’ll be mad forever.
People aren’t shit though.
There’s a tiny 4% of the planet that thinks everyone’s shit because they are
People generally are fucking amazing
Uh, history? Almost all of it. You think that’s the history of a nice species? Or do you think everyone has spontaneously become nicer, just for this generation? We haven’t, at least not appreciably; we just have stronger institutions now to manage it.
Also, it’s way more than 4%. I’m guessing it’s a majority that would agree with that statement. There’s even religions about it. Weren’t you the one just complaining about everyone being littering savages? Hopefully you don’t just mean people not where you live - that would be a very historical thing to think.
People generally are fucking amazing
Rent is due in 2 days
You should be more angry at the throwaway society we’ve become to create so much trash, rather than rant at the person who might be the sole employee until someone else comes in to do the regular morning cleanup duties.
So you think some full trash cans cause people to head out to the interstate and only then throw shit out their window? Guess they’re making a statement or something…
That’s no excuse for littering - but it is super annoying.
There’s a dunks near me that moved its trash out of the drive in line WAAAAAAY over to the other side of the parking lot. Intentionally, so that I don’t bother them by throwing away, you know, the bag and napkins they give you.
That was the straw that broke the camels back - I just make my coffee now in the morning. It’s 1/100th the price and aggravation.
If you treat people like trash, don’t be surprised if they turn out to be garbage.
It’s infuriating that we have so much trash that needs throwing away. Most of those cans were probably empty in the morning.
This just seems like a lot of words for the same ol’ no one wants to work anymore bullshit
Don’t worry once we get AI to take care of this we don’t need those useless employees that we didn’t hire to do the jobs to do the jobs anymore!
/s
“I litter because the trash can was full”
And you’re trying to think about perceived societal problems. How about introspection?
It’s a societal problem.
https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-shibuya/article-a0002380/
People should take their trash home. It’s great for awareness.
Keep it in your pocket. Not really hard tbh.
Of course other humans are trashy :/You keep your not quite empty styrofoam coffee cup in you pocket? Don’t you get sticky and start to smell like overripe coffee beans?
Keep that in your hand or bring a small bag to keep it inside.
I wouldnt use a styrofoam cup anyway. Usually my thermos or drinking bottleThat’s how it’s sold (well thankfully several states have banned them so it’s often paper)
Also you’re euro right? Europeans jump through so many hoops to justify not having public toilets/trash, it’s like that continents version of American health care.
