Poll: You, trash and the environment

[Kizi]

No matter how addressed this issue is, people seem to be very apathetic about keeping our planet clean. Seriously, people throw their soda cans out the window of their pollution-spewing cars, driving off to a party where they show even less care for this kind of stuff.
Walking on the sidewalk in a city or a town, only to see cigarette butts between every brick. Near the mountainside admiring the scenery, with plastic bags dangling in the tops of every tree and bush.
The simple act of holding onto trash for three minutes longer to find a trash can actually help, you know.

I'm sorry for ranting; it just bothers me quite a lot.
What's your take on all of this?

 

[Total LOLige]

I put my rubbish in the bin or if there's one near by a recycling bin. They really need to put recycling bins next to general waste bins, people might bother to recycle it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I pretty much put all of my trash into the correct recycle bins most of the time but I still put them in. I mean a few times the said recyle bin is full so I either put it in a regular bin or hold onto it (depending what my trash is).

 

[Kinokohatake]

I like to try and stress test the environment as much as possible. Kidding obviously. If there is a recycling bin nearby I'll use it. I don't have one at my house because it costs more and I won't pay the extra for it.

 

[aba1]

I was guilty of throwing my cigarette butts on the ground until a year ago.

...Who am I kidding? I still do that. Its the towns fucking fault for disassembling 70% of bins for some weird fucking reason that remains known only to them. Cunts.

But other than that, I have hardly ever just thrown litter onto the ground. Maybe 10 times in my whole life, honest. In theory it means I hold onto my litter until I can throw it in a bin. In practice it means I get home every day with enough plastic in my pockets to shrink wrap my apartment.

Also, I am using litter in the English sense here. I think it means dogshit or something in the US. Gives my post a whole new dimension.

I live in Canada but I know for fairly certain the litter is still just garbage here in North America. You are thinking kitty litter I think which is used as sort of a cat toilet. It is used to absorb cat piss and such so you can just dump it when ever you need too.

 

[Total LOLige]

I like to try and stress test the environment as much as possible. Kidding obviously. If there is a recycling bin nearby I'll use it. I don't have one at my house because it costs more and I won't pay the extra for it.

You have to pay extra for a recycling bin? Here in the UK every household has a recycling bin(s) given by the government and picked up and emptied like every fortnight.

 

[Kae]

I try to help whenever I can, I do pick up the trash that is on the street and put it on the bin, and back when I lived on the beach I used to go out clean up the beach after spring break, since spring breakers are stupid assholes that leave their trash everywhere, oh how I hate them, but other than that I can't say I do much to help the environment.

 

[Kinokohatake]

I like to try and stress test the environment as much as possible. Kidding obviously. If there is a recycling bin nearby I'll use it. I don't have one at my house because it costs more and I won't pay the extra for it.

You have to pay extra for a recycling bin? Here in the UK every household has a recycling bin(s) given by the government and picked up and emptied like every fortnight.

Yeah here in good old Ohio it's extra. Also, fortnight? Awesome!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I put my garbage in the trash can and I recycle my recyclables for a small refund to keep my car moving with extra gas money. It's nice and easy with me.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I've got recycling bins in the kitchen that I empty into the large bin out front every couple of weeks, and as a bonus, I live in the area serviced by the South East London Combined Heat and Power (SELCHP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELCHP]) power plant. SELCHP burns garbage to generate about 35 megawatts of electricity, and scrubs the resulting ashes and gas to be as clean as possible before releasing them.

 

[krazykidd]

Don't care . I call bullshit . Worst that could happen is humanity gets wiped out and another species take control . Also puhleeze . The average citezen doesn't contribute enough towards pollution to alctually make a difference . With all the factories around polluting the earth i doubt it's the common man that will make a difference , whether we pollute or not . I think it's just a trend to get people to feel good about themselves , make them FEEL like they are makig a difference , make them feel like we matter . On the large scale , we don't . We will pollute till the planet is no longer hospitable then humanity will die out , then the earth will auto repair itself , then evolution will continue. At least thats my 2 cents , my opinion isn't worth anything of course .

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I do the recycling bit from home, and I doubt I'll ever know if I comply because I'm consciencious or simply because it's the law...because it's the law, and I'm not gonna fuck with that if it could become a problem for me.

I generally don't litter because I always think it looks completely obnoxious when I see others do it.

It is funny how peoples ideas about this differ. I was walking in the woods with a friend, and we were eating ice-lollies(popsicles?...whatever). I finished mine and broke the wooden stick up into small pieces and flicked it...she looked at me like I was the devil. She also couldn't understand why I didn't pick up after my dog...when it shit in the woods...and not even on the path or anywhere where people are gonna walk. Am I really gonna bag it and put it in a receptical? It's animal shit and little bits of wood in the woods, to my mind it belongs there.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Ah yes, i noticed this when i had to move in with my grandparents.
They throw almost everything except liquid containers and newspapers in one bag.
I sort metal, plastic, paper and bio as best i can. IT IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT most of the time(once i spent a good half hour loudly dismantling my old computer chair handle which had metal tubes molded in plastic)

And do not mention lights and electronic devices.
Many times i have discovered that our radio was actually on, but with the volume at minimum. What kind of person... that is like covering the TV with a blanket for the night while leaving it on.
There are always lights on at all corners of a certain persons house.

I would bike to work if i did not live in a freezing wasteland.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I don't care. I used to be reasonably eco-friendly, but then the local council where I was living decided that instead of taking the rubbish out every week they were going to collect recycling and general waste on alternate weeks.

Have you ever wondered how much rubbish four male university students living in one house can make in two weeks? Too much to go in one rubbish bin. At one point we had to wait a full month, because the lid of the bin was being kept slightly ajar by a single supermarket carrier bag, so apparently we were in breach of some sort of code of conduct. Maybe if the local council don't want rubbish to be gathering in our back garden, they should have taken out bin away instead of laving us with one full bin and another two full weeks until collection.

So yeah, ever since that happened last year I honestly haven't cared. I don't throw stuff on the pavement because that's just rude, but I don't separate recycling and general, I don't care about leaving electrical appliances on and I don't turn lights out when I leave the room. If people want me to be eco-friendly, they should make it so that I'm not punished for trying. I'm not even asking to be rewarded for being eco-friendly, I'm just being asked to not have to pay more for a recycling service or power-saving switch things.

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

Also, I am using litter in the English sense here. I think it means dogshit or something in the US. Gives my post a whole new dimension.

I genuinely cracked up when I read this. Most of the US (read: me and a few friends) refers to litter in the actual sense of the word, being trash. I don't know where you heard the dogshit thing from, but let me tell you that it's a bit of an understatement for some of the shit that people throw out into the streets.

Hell, it's even worse around my city because there's ALWAYS a damn recycle bin next to the normal trash bin, no matter if you're in your home, out on the street, in a movie theater, in an office, it's always got both bins. I don't care how lazy you are, you ignorant fuckers. If the two bins are just a few meters[footnote]I refuse to use the imperial system because metric is used damn near everywhere else[/footnote] from where you dropped your shit, take fifteen seconds, walk over there, and throw it into the appropriate bin. It's not rocket science at all, nor is it a "librul agenda" for you conspiracy theorists out there.

On a side note, has anyone noticed how hostile I've been acting toward imaginary idiots? I must be slowly going insane. You all did this to me!

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

I use to litter all the time, but I stopped after a girl I was interested expressed her displeasure for it. You could say I dropped her like a bad habit but gained a good one.

 

[Loop Stricken]

CLEAN UP YO STREETS ENGLAND!

Your problem is, you're going to London. It's a shithole that gets everything it wants because the Government lives there.