Do you sometimes randomly pick up trash?

[pbm]

I have often picked up trash if there was a garbage bin nearby to throw it in but since Covid I've been less inclined to do so.
Another thing that annoys me is people throwing recyclables in the garbage. At the gym I go to (a large national chain) people throw their cans and plastic bottles in the garbage when there is a recycle bin 10 feet away....they also throw their garbage into the recycle bin.

I also get annoyed with the clowns who take half hour long showers and use up all the hot water. If I were the manager I'd put up a sign stating something like "Be considerate of fellow members and limit your shower time to approximately 5 minutes". It seems many people believe "It's all about me" these days.

 

[ATex7239]

Yes.

People who litter are little more than feral in my opinion. Cleaning up after yourself is basic human decency.

 

[danstraylee]

people throw their cans and plastic bottles in the garbage when there is a recycle bin 10 feet away....they also throw their garbage into the recycle bin.

I am one of those people and have a very good reason for it. The trash trucks grab all three at one stop: the green waste, recyclable and trash are all dumped in the same truck. Also when you go to a waste management facility everything goes on a conveyer and is sorted anyway.

 

[pbm]

I am one of those people and have a very good reason for it. The trash trucks grab all three at one stop: the green waste, recyclable and trash are all dumped in the same truck. Also when you go to a waste management facility everything goes on a conveyer and is sorted anyway.

Where I live the recyclables are picked up by a separate truck.

 

[Capt W]

Not only do I pick it up, both of my boys (26 and 22) do the same. We also pick up items people carelessly toss on the floor at stores. It's called being a good neighbor and citizen.

 

[incognito_2u]

Yes, I still do.......
Im that guy who picks up others discarded waste. I feel that garbage left in the street makes my block look filthy. The only thing is, my neighbors never seem to be bothered picking it up.
I also pick up the rolling trash cans in the road on garbage pickup day and place them on the curb.
To expand on this, Growing up when I was a Cub Scout, our Scoutmaster used to have us walk the local Strip malls parking lot every Saturday morning, picking up trash and most importantly nails and other sharp objects along the way. I wonder how many flat tires were avoided by us doing that little deed!
Any change found was yours to keep!

 

[Jeffrey Behr]

Yes; have been doing that for decades. 'Tis unfortunate that there are SO MANY SLOBS among us.

 

[uc50ic4more]

I always do when I can; and if possible I try to make sure someone is watching me when I do it; preferably kids: I'd like to normalize the idea.

Sometimes I organize neighbourhood cleanups, too, which are supported by our local Neighbourhood Watch program. Same deal: I make sure we'll all in bright orange vests in high-traffic areas to people can see what's happening.

 

[Pew]

I like videos were people will pick up and throw trash back into the car that tossed it.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

Almost daily when walking my dog. I hate those stupid free newspapers blowing around my neighborhood. No one wants them, the company should be fined for littering. At the beach or whatever I always make an effort to pick up some. If everyone picked up 1 or 2 things, the world you frequent would be much nicer.

 

[mk378]

Also those little plastic signs advertising various things. When placed on a roadside or other public property they are litter.

 

[JeffKeryk]

We are in Japan right now; the streets have zero litter. Impressive, at least to me.

 

[AdrianH]

I work in public transport and regularly visits bus depots, workshops and factory and always pickup sharp items.

I also use the train to commute and move items left at stations by naughty kids away from the platforms - if it’s on the platform there’s a chance it’s going to be on the track, and that means delays

I do the grocery store thing and trash in front of my yard.

 

[RedSpider]

I live in a rural-ish area just on the outskirts of suburbia and I often go about a 1/3 of a mile either direction of my driveway, and collect trash. The first time I did it, I filled three garbage cans full of bottles, crushed cans, cardboard, whatever. Now that I do it on a regular basis, I can maybe fill one can a quarter full every other month or so, if that. I get agitated when I see anything at all along the road, especially since I seem to be the only one picking it up.

I was down in Chile on business a while back, and on the way to the airport, we were traveling parallel to a narrow river. While we were at an intersection I looked over and watched some guy dumping bags and bags of garbage right into the river. I said to my local driver/host, that guys about to get in big trouble if they see him doing that. He looked over, then looked at me and shrugged his shoulders and said nope, a lot of the poorer neighborhoods in that area dont have trash pickup, so the locals just dump everything in the river or nearby creeks. Very common and nobody seems to stop them. The closer to the airport we got, the more trash I saw. In some areas, it was a lot. It was really bizarre how much there was and how this was just deemed acceptable for some reason.

 

[ecotourist]

Like fixing broken windows, I suspect picking up any trash makes a neighbourhood safer. I think there is evidence for the broken windows thing, but I don't have evidence for picking up trash, just a suspicion. Something to do with being a tidy and well maintained area vs "nobody cares anyway".

If you dropped a piece of toilet paper on the floor, in which bathroom are you more likely to pick it up - one that is marble with gleaming metal work, or one where the floor is dirty and there are bits of trash here and there?

 

[KMFDM]

take 5 min after riding dirt bike and mountain bike to pick up trash in the woods around my parking area. Used to do a lot more, do Park Clean up days and so on.
Sometimes people are PIGS

 

[mcm0455]

There were some ice pop plastic remnants while I was walking my dog at our local park the other day. Always feels good to leave something better than I found it.
When I was a kid in the 70's, we had a neighbor who would ask us to help him pickup up trash when we were walking on the beach. When I worked at the golf course as a summer job in high school, we would pickup trash along the highway on days it was too wet to mow. 7 bucks an hour and I though I had hit the lottery!

 

[svtrit]

Part of being an offroading Jeep guy is picking up the trash of the dirtbags that leave their trash behind. Independence day seems to be the day that tons of redneck morons decide that the forest clearing is their place to leave the fireworks remnants behind. If I want the trails open, I need to keep them clean. It's just part of the deal since people are pigs.

 

[ZZman]

Not only do I pick it up, both of my boys (26 and 22) do the same. We also pick up items people carelessly toss on the floor at stores. It's called being a good neighbor and citizen.

Nice!

 

[ZZman]

I live in a rural-ish area just on the outskirts of suburbia and I often go about a 1/3 of a mile either direction of my driveway, and collect trash. The first time I did it, I filled three garbage cans full of bottles, crushed cans, cardboard, whatever. Now that I do it on a regular basis, I can maybe fill one can a quarter full every other month or so, if that. I get agitated when I see anything at all along the road, especially since I seem to be the only one picking it up.

I was down in Chile on business a while back, and on the way to the airport, we were traveling parallel to a narrow river. While we were at an intersection I looked over and watched some guy dumping bags and bags of garbage right into the river. I said to my local driver/host, that guys about to get in big trouble if they see him doing that. He looked over, then looked at me and shrugged his shoulders and said nope, a lot of the poorer neighborhoods in that area dont have trash pickup, so the locals just dump everything in the river or nearby creeks. Very common and nobody seems to stop them. The closer to the airport we got, the more trash I saw. In some areas, it was a lot. It was really bizarre how much there was and how this was just deemed acceptable for some reason.

Wow.... Sad