Do you sometimes randomly pick up trash?

[Number_35]

8 years ago or so, i went to the Dollar Store and bought two of those Trash picker upper tools.
I often go in the front yard or past my property line, past the sidewalk onto the City grass area and go hunt for garbage, wrappers, cig butts etc with one of these tools and a plastic bag.
Same with the back alley behind my house, especially on or after garbage pick up day. Stuff gets flown around. Also, i live with 2 blocks of a highschool and not far from a couple of elemantary schools.
Usual lazy brats tossing their chip bags, chocolate bar wrappers, etc wherever they are out walking.
Can be a garbage can every 9 inches, they just discard wherever..
Was much more worse about 7 years ago, the neighborhood 7-11 closed down for good, suddenly became much cleaner.
The high school feild can be a pig sty. The students discard all their junk , in the fields and the surrounding residential blocks.
Funny, when i was a student in both Elem. And highschool, we students were given after school detention.
Forced to go walk the school fields and property with metal tongs and a plastic pail...Garbage picking duty! From 30 to60 minutes.
And we had to show a teacher our pail to prove we cleaned up.
I never see any students these days doing the same as we did as kids.

As soon as the local schools shut down for the summer, the amount of litter in the neighbourhood drops to almost nothing.

 

[xspeedy]

Good on you! Everyone should chip in. I'm going to rant here. I don't know how we as a society have become such pigs. When I go to a HS football game, everyone just leaves their trash under the bench when there is a bin just ten feet away. When the game is over, they just get up and leave. I'll often clean up the trash in the surrounding area to help out a bit. I have thankfully instilled in my kids the right etiquette. They know to tidy up the table at a restaurant to not leave behind what looks like New Orleans after Katrina. We fold and stack napkins and create a neat pile of dishes and glasses at the edge of the table that the staff can easily reach. We always bus our own table at places that have bins (many other people won't). We'll also return stray carts at parking lots that aren't ours. I remember before kids, my wife and I went to a restaurant and saw a table on our way out where a young family ate. It looked like a tornado ran through the place. Food on the floor, all across the table, crumpled napkins strewn about... I told my wife that we would never do that when we had kids.

My first impression of bad behavior was as a kid walking through first class to deplane, and being amazed at the slop passengers left behind. Magazines and blankets strewn about, and on the floor. I think the modern wealthy are the worst offenders. There is a sense of entitlement. Maybe they grew up always having someone to clean up after them? I know they think leaving a tip gives them the right to leave behind a mess.