Do you throw litter from your car?
Honestly?
I was caught up in a traffic jam today and I saw so many people throwing trash out of their windows, that I figured statistically someone here must do it. So do you? and if so why? So many people do it they can't all be psychopaths, they must have a rational argument as to why it's OK? Maybe I'm missing something thinking it's bad? Does anyone dare to admit to it? Do you all do it and I'm the only weirdo who thinks it's bad? Is it a rebellion to express anger at being held up? Or a way of keeping prisoners busy? What?
Back in England I used to hear the argument that it kept the council employed litter-pickers in work. Yes, I lived in a rough area. Yes, I challenged litterers.
I really hate littering. I don't understand it. It's probably more effort to throw something out of your car window than to drop it in the trash can we you get home. Am I weird?
I only throw like, foodstuffs out the windows. you know, biodegradable stuff. The birds & the ants'll get it. Other than that, no.
I can live with that ....as long as it's into the verge/grass/hedge/whatever where said animals can get it, and not the windscreen/windshield of the car behind....
I absolutely do not. I'll spit gum out, or throw an apple core, or similar, into the weeds, but nothing else.
Some fuck-face in a Mercedes SUV about clocked me with a bag of McDonald's trash today, when I was riding to the grocery store. That's basically asking me to shove my bike pump down your throat.
It's not an environmental issue for me either. As a kid, if you came to my house to play and didn't help clean up, I hated you and probably would never ask you over again. I'm a vehement "clean your own mess up" person.
I absolutely do not. I'll spit gum out
Yuck.
but other than that, you're good ;)
How biodegradable is gum these days? In the UK in the 70s they used to scare us by saying that id you swallow it, it sits in your stomach getting balled up with other indigestible crap for ever..... now if stomach acid can't deal with it in a hurry, it's a fair bet it's going to be around for a while on the verge, right? But they used to lie a lot way back then......
I only throw like, foodstuffs out the windows. you know, biodegradable stuff. The birds & the ants'll get it. Other than that, no.
Exactly. Apple cores, banana peels. And even then I'll get an illicit thrill. I'll pour old drinks out, though (the liquids, not the cups--like leftover ice)
Nope.
I don't want to make the Indian cry.
People who throw rubbish from their cars are disgusting pigs in my opinion. They're in the same catagory as grots who don't clean up after their dogs in public places.
It's all shit in the end.
No, I don't. I live in a fairly rural area and most of what gets thrown out sits indefinitely on the side of the road, unless someone is collecting cans. A Dunkin' Donuts opened about three miles away and since then I'm seeing Dunkin' cups everywhere. It's annoys the crap out of me that people litter.
Nothing paper nor permanent, but yes, the occasional apple core. Maybe it'll become a tree, I think.
I remember the campaign about "Every Litter Bit Hurts," and it's guided my life re throwing things onto roadsides.
No I don't litter. I'm also really lazy about cleaning my car. There is always something better/ more pressing to do, so I basically drive around in a mobile dumpster.
I throw apple cores out the window, and feel like I have to hide the fact that I am, like I'm breaking the law. I don't pitch other trash out.
We have a McDonald's two blocks from my house. Every week, before I mow the lawn, I have to pick one or two hamburger wrappers off of my front lawn. I don't like it when people litter.
Ice/melted ice. Only. My car is a fucking trashcan, but not even apple cores go out the window. You should hear my kids' outrage when they see trash come out of a car window. WHen I see glowing cigarette butts come flying out of a car, I really want to do something about it. But what can you do? The cops don't ticket speeders, or stop-sign-rollers, so what would they do with a 911 litter report?
Okay, I've been known to toss a toothpick out the window, but never anything else. Not even food for fear that it attracts animals into traffic, creating a hazard.
I find it odd that a lot of people that throw trash out the car window are usually neat freaks and do it because they don't want to haul garbage in their car. Just put a grocery bag in the backseat and use it as a trash bag.
I don't want to make the Indian cry.
Heh.
"You bastard."
Nope. And while my kids were still figuring out how I feel about litter, I had to stop the car a couple times to go back and pick up a candy wrapper or two.
WHen I see glowing cigarette butts come flying out of a car, I really want to do something about it.
A driver in front of me once carelessly flicked a lit cigarette out his open window. Not only did it hit my car, but it got sucked into my open window, buzzed past my ear, bounced off the door frame, and exited through the rear open window. I spent fifteen frantic minutes on the side of the road searching the floor of the car, fearing a fire.
I have no idea how anyone thinks it is acceptable to toss burning material onto the side of the highway. We suffer enough brush fires started by lightning in the dry season.
Iron Eyes Cody
I am so bummed after reading that link.
I just read Chief Seattle's "speech" a couple weeks ago and took the hook not realizing that the whole thing is a fiction. Well written fiction, tho. Very well written.
You guys think I'm a shrill asshole, seriously?
You should be around when I see someone litter.
Yes, I actually yell at them, in public, loudly. I don't care if they are a large biker, though I can honestly say I have yet to see one litter... but I would, happily.
Something like "What the hell do you think you are doing? Pick that up fuck-head!"
Throwing litter out the window shows the level of no class and egocentricism you possess. Spitting (out a car window or on the sidewalk that people have to walk on) is also a deal breaker for me. Just trashy.
[COLOR="Red"]RED ALERT RED ALERT [/COLOR] Everyone on the Cellar is agreeing.
I think that's one of the seven signs of the apocalypse.
Pretty much.
It does bother me that the fines are not being enforced and I feel that there should be, specially hired, litter cops. The senior members of the Explorer force is a great place. (Does the UK have something like these little brown-shirts?)
This is a great place to make money to keep from having to raise local taxes for outfitting our police.
This would not be ticketing people going five-over, jaywalking, parking for ten min. over, this is a legitimate issue that would make our parks, streets and towns a better place to live and generate funding for our police.
Focusing on places where people toss/drop trash, throw cigarette butts out of their cars (worse yet, dump their ash trays in parking lots, fine for each butt, BTW), and others.
There, someone will disagree with me.
Abbey confounded environmentalist proprieties about "littering" by tossing his beer cans out the window onto roads he hated, such as the new paved road to the Bullfrog Marina at the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. As he explained in "The Second Rape of the West," "Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly."
from Edward Abbey: A Life, by James M. Cahalan
also another way to look at it is that roads will become the mines for future generations.
Huh? Roads will become mimes for future gener...oh, never mind.
how do you feel about cigarette butts?
They are litter and a fire hazard, the fine should be doubled.
So it shall be done (bangs gavel on podium)
how do you feel about cigarette butts?
That they should be in your ashtray while you drive and in a bin(=trash can) when you empty it.
Are you the first confessed litterer? If so thank you for your bravery. Come on..... statistically speaking a whole shitload of you reading this thread must do it, so either tell us why or tell us you ain't gonna do it again. Dare ya! :p
I don't have a car but if I did I wouldn't throw anything out of the window.
My mom is the only cig smoker I know who does not litter.
I bought her a Zippo portable lighter that seals. I use an Altoids Sour tin (it seals air tight) for my cigars and pipe ash/dottle and cigar butts, even though they are biodegradable. They do not look nice and people don't want them on the ground or in their flower bins.
She used a water bottle with a bit of water in it or one of my Altoid tins before then. Said the water bottle kept her car from smelling because she could seal it, unlike her ash-tray... did not work.
When i drive with the top down, i see my fiance throwing stuff out like little bits of paper and i freak out on him. I hate it when he does that. Im a really paranoid person and im always thinking "omg, what if someone fingerprints this bottle he threw out? Theyll know it was him!!". Im a total loser.
No, I don't. I live in a fairly rural area and most of what gets thrown out sits indefinitely on the side of the road, unless someone is collecting cans. A Dunkin' Donuts opened about three miles away and since then I'm seeing Dunkin' cups everywhere. It's annoys the crap out of me that people litter.
I take it that your asteroid doesn't have a nearby prison.
Or do-gooders that paid for the privilege of one of those Adopt-a-Highway sign.
Not unless she does not give it up. :D
how do you feel about cigarette butts?
You've seen what I do right? (first of all, I don't smoke in the car at all)
I twist the ember off the end, stamp it out, and the filter end goes into the watch pocket of my jeans until I get to a trash can.
I like the Altoids tin idea, Rzen. I'll have to try to remember to save one.
Originally Posted by ravenranter
No, I don't. I live in a fairly rural area and most of what gets thrown out sits indefinitely on the side of the road, unless someone is collecting cans. A Dunkin' Donuts opened about three miles away and since then I'm seeing Dunkin' cups everywhere. It's annoys the crap out of me that people litter.
Sounds like a
great opportunity for an editorial to your local paper.
You've seen what I do right? (first of all, I don't smoke in the car at all)
I twist the ember off the end, stamp it out, and the filter end goes into the watch pocket of my jeans until I get to a trash can.
I like the Altoids tin idea, Rzen. I'll have to try to remember to save one.
Make sure it is a Sours tin. The mint tins do not seal.
For the buck fifty, they are worth buying even if you don't like the candy, put it in a zip-lock, give it away, and just keep the tin.
Littering is wrong. People who litter are probably scumbags in the rest of their lives, too. Too fucking lazy to put stuff in a trash can somewhere, and there are trash cans *everywhere*.
Meh.
how do you feel about cigarette butts?
The cigarette butts disgust me. The Labrat's butt, on the other hand...
I keep a trash bag handy for all trash that is not food (the bag is at nose level of a trash-picker) or on fire. My butts go into a self-extinguishing butt kit that hangs on my door. I empty all trash into provided receptacles whenever I stop.
I have taken other truckers to task for littering (it's at it's worst at the back of a truck stop) and "eliminating" behind their trailer. But I am an asshole. Ask anyone. :D
Brian
When we go road tripp'in we keep a trash bag with us. We get them free from the grocery store. When we get where we are going we find a trash can, and recyclables container and take care of our waste then.
When I was trucking, I would get pissed when people would throw their piss bottles all over the place. (YUK):vomitblu: :vomit:
People who throw rubbish from their cars are disgusting pigs in my opinion. They're in the same catagory as grots who don't clean up after their dogs in public places.
It's all shit in the end.
Such righteousness! *oinking loudly*
You mean to tell me that you've never tossed an obnoxious hitchhicker? That you barf in your lap, spit in your silk hanky, choke on the occasional release of methane? That you never roll down the window and stick your hand out
before you flip off an obnoxious cabby? That all of those ads that someone leaves under your windshield wipers are
still there? That you've never thumped a joint when the car following you merely
looked like a police cruiser? Rubbish, indeed. ;)
You've seen what I do right? (first of all, I don't smoke in the car at all)
I twist the ember off the end, stamp it out, and the filter end goes into the watch pocket of my jeans until I get to a trash can.
I like the Altoids tin idea, Rzen. I'll have to try to remember to save one.
Ohhh my ex used to do that, except he would just leave it in his pocket ...drove me fucken nuts. Tobacco all through my washing :greenface
I do not litter. I personally like seeing my surroundings and environment very nice, neat, and beautiful, not a trash bag. God......I am sounding like my dad.
I will occasionally spit on a sidewalk but I am trying to stop it. I will also occasionally spit gum on the grass or off in a corner but I am also trying to stop doing that.
Spat out the window two fig stems during this morning's commute. I don't consider that littering. Otherwise, nothing out the window.
Trash pickup costs about $50 every three months, so I can save $200 a year by just scattering my trash beside the road on the way to work every morning.
Now, xoB... there are plenty of people who pay for trash removal, and their bins are helpfully located at the end of their driveways all night. If your stuff is bagged you don't even have to put it in the bin, just next to it.
Actually, if I was smart I'd just bag it up every day and take it to work and throw it in the dumpster. The little amount of trash I generate would easily fit in a plastic grocery bag.
But then the trash man couldn't pay his $3000 mortgage every month and his kids would have to drop out of college.
One day last summer I got an email from my neighbor across the street. She asked me if I had noticed the car parked on the street in front of my house the night before, which I had not. She said that while she was walking her dog in the morning she saw a used condom that had been tossed in the street, right where the car had been. She not only cleans up after her dog, she keeps the neighborhood clean!
Actually, if I was smart I'd just bag it up every day and take it to work and throw it in the dumpster. The little amount of trash I generate would easily fit in a plastic grocery bag.
But then the trash man couldn't pay his $3000 mortgage every month and his kids would have to drop out of college.
They deserve evey penny they get paid.