Why You Should Collect Your Garbage Bins Promptly

[tmorris1]

Yep, we just covered how much trash is thrown around lately …
Starting to look 3rd world here …

Isnt this the opposite of 3rd world? They threw the garbage in a trash can. I get not wanting dog crap in the can but at least they are picking up after their dog. Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[thastinger]

The house is undergoing transition. New owners do not live there and they just rented out the basement to tenants. The tenants should have taken it in.
There is a gate in front (the only house on the street with a gate), else I would move the bin away from the curb myself. Next time I walk by I will close the lid, the least I can do.

I was gonna say that what we're seeing is classic renter behavior...no lid, probably not bagged up either so the wind can blow it everywhere, and leaving it out by the curb. It is almost like renters don't care about the neighborhoods they live in.

 

[GRUMPYDUDE2]

Sad but true these days.
"It is almost like renters don't care about the neighborhoods they live in".

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

My friends across the street pick mine up and place it next to the house where we store it. If I wake early , before them , I pick theirs and mine up. We have a couple houses down the street who usually leave their cans sit there on the edge of the street with tops open for days after the truck has emptied them. LAZY? I often wonder.... where do they place their trash during the days they allow their cans to sit there?

 

[4wd]

Isnt this the opposite of 3rd world? They threw the garbage in a trash can. I get not wanting dog crap in the can but at least they are picking up after their dog. Don't sweat the small stuff.

If you want it to be - but slightly different subject regarding responsibility …
And it’s changed in recent years here - (I live where I was born) …
It’s not small stuff to see your hometown trashed …

 

[4wd]

Sad but true these days.
"It is almost like renters don't care about the neighborhoods they live in".

And don’t expect offspring to learn from them - just saw a kid throw plastic from his backseat car window - a block from downtown …

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Folks reaction to this one I bet is the same as mine. Thoughts? I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt but actions speak!

There is a house been empty for years down the street. Someone spent a fortune rebuilding the place. I know because it took them years to do. Never a sign FOR SALE or RENT.

One night around 11:00pm there comes a moving truck. (who moves in the middle of the night?) Ok. Some need to. Fair enough.

So as I watched out of my garage.... A bunch of 6-7 teens were there (NOT HELPING at ALL) but eating fast food sitting on the cars all parked in the street behind the driveway. I have to assume ? What ? Friends of the family (of course no adult man seen) moving in.
The next day, ALL of the fast food trash from bags to drink cups etc... are all left thrown over the ground and in the driveway.
The very next night was near exact instant re-play with 10:30pm to 11:30pm moving truck and all the juveniles doing the same thing.
NOT a single one HELPING, not lifting a finger...? YET eating the fast food all over the front yard and driveway again. Next morning the same thing. The kids debris strewn all across the (friends?) front yard and driveway and street.

Who? What kind of friends? Who goes to the home your so called friends? family? are moving into, you DO NOT HELP lift a finger in any way. YET you leave them with all of your garbage all over the new place they are just moving into? What on earth are we or are we NOT teaching the youth of today? * AGAIN* Not aimed at any young person @ BITOG. Please don't be offended unless u were there.

 

[Nessism1]

Car waiting at a stop light. Two young males inside. One opens a window and dumps out a fast food bag, cup holder tray, cups, etc, onto the street. There were at least 20 cars waiting at the light at this point. Just amazing, and not in a good way.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Car waiting at a stop light. Two young males inside. One opens a window and dumps out a fast food bag, cup holder tray, cups, etc, onto the street. There were at least 20 cars waiting at the light at this point. Just amazing, and not in a good way.

I have seen the same thing so many times it is almost like an ingrown habit with some people. I guess the spoken words would be "I Don't care. Let someone else deal with it." Yet I see pictures often of European cities and country side and they almost look like paintings they are so beautiful with zero trash or things out of place.

 

[walterjay]

Yesterday I saw a girl in a parking lot get out of her car and throw trash into the weeds. Reminded me of @Zee09 disposing of his buns.

 

[Zee09]

Yesterday I saw a girl in a parking lot get out of her car and throw trash into the weeds. Reminded me of @Zee09 disposing of his buns.

How were her buns btw?

 

[ecotourist]

Car waiting at a stop light. Two young males inside. One opens a window and dumps out a fast food bag, cup holder tray, cups, etc, onto the street. There were at least 20 cars waiting at the light at this point. Just amazing, and not in a good way.

Large fines for tossing garbage out along the roadway helps correct that behaviour.

$200 would sting, $1,000 for a second offense would be painful.

 

[opus1]

My mantra in this case is: your dog, YOUR problem. The justifications that say "well at least they threw it in the can vs. leaving it on your lawn" are akin to me hitting someone in the head and saying "well, I could have broken your arm but didn't." Neither one is correct.

In my case, the attitude has two causes. 1) I have to pay for the can and pickup, so I'm paying for your garbage and 2) our cans have to be stored out of sight when it's not garbage day, which means they're in my garage. I don't want your dog's "deposits" festering in my garage for a week.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

There is a family who moved in down at the far end of the street. I have not met them yet. Been there at least 6 months. All of a sudden I see that my next door house has installed some little signs across their front lawn. Signs say: "SMILE you and your dog are on camera. Pick up YOUR dog waste. Thank You." I found out the guy from down the street has been walking all this way and letting his dog use their lawn. Well. NOT anymore. Some folks can't seem to grasp two things. Their garbage is NOT anyone else's. Also, there is hardly no place left on the planet when any of us are NOT being filmed by someone or someone's security cameras or .....? I'd tend to watch what I do in public these days.