Do you ever drop litter?

I don't see how these two things are related.

You can eat in the street without littering and you can litter without eating in the street.

No. I don't.

It was a long time ago but possibly because there was a lack of bins around, there still aren’t that many bins when you are out and about where I live unless you are in some sort of park (obviously would hold onto my rubbish now).

I didn’t do it all the time, I just remember doing it on a few occasions.

Also, and I heavenly read the whole thread so apologies if this has already been said, but a lot of the litter probably hasn’t actually been dropped there. With the rise of household recycling not all councils have very secure bins/boxes/bags for recycling so items can get blown away when residents put them out for collection. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m sure it is always more windy on bin day at my house! Plus the lorry has big open doors on it where they tip the boxes into so I’m sure when the lorry is moving stuff flies out of it that way?

Absolute bullshit

What a load of bullshit

can you remember why you did it?

Anyone upset by the horrendous litter needs to write to their MPs. Councils are not responsible for most roads; the government's highway agency is. The terrible litter is harming wildlife who come near the road to rummage through it and get killed, as well as a danger to traffic as the bodies create obstacles in the roads. The government needs to sort this out through more frequent tidy ups and stop littering campaigns. If you don't write to your MPs it will just get worse and worse

No. It’s slovenly and could cost me £180 if a civil enforcement officer materialises beside me

No, we accidentally taught our dog to litter pick as a puppy, if he picked up a bottle etc we would take it off him and say good boy etc, he now still does it, luckily we live in a low litter area so usually its limited to one poo bag of rubbish. Where we live people would tell you off in the street if they saw you dropping rubbish.

Nope. But I’ve watched people finish a McDonald’s or similar, roll down the car windows and chuck the rubbish out many a time.

it’s like the people who don’t pick up after their dogs.

was in Japan last year, so clean, so tidy.

Several of the receptionists at a GP surgery where I worked would repost prescription forms discarded by inconsiderate oinkers outside a local pharmacy. They would post them back to the patients address with their address as return address so at the least they got them back. Often at an unstamped fine added.

That’s simply not true and has zero to do with the prevalence of littering.

I sometimes do throw away apple cores. Otherwise no, and I do volunteer for the community litter pick.

I do notice the sad state of the dual carriageway verges.

I never (knowingly) litter. I’m sure something must have fallen out of my pocket at some point over the years, but never on purpose.

I was teaching a young lady to drive once and we were practicing bay parking in a McDonald’s. I mentioned how awful the litter in the car park was and she replied “oh that was me and my mates last night” - I was really shocked! When I questioned why she said that the bins were full and on the suggestion that they should take it home with them she said that some people lived as far away as 10 miles. Now I know McDonald’s isn’t the healthiest of foods, but it isn’t radioactive and won’t harm anyone if it’s in the car for 10 miles!

Then a man came out of McDonald’s with a black bag and litter picker and she piped up “That’s why! That man has a job because of us!”

Oh and the dogpoo people! Them too! What is it about?

I am interested in these semi-hidden people. You'd think you'd be able to hear from them online in anonymous or pseudonymous fora, but you rarely do (I know I could go to cesspits like 8chan or kiwi farms and find them, but that's a bit too rich for me).

I wonder about the people who:

• drop litter
• play their phones out loud
• poo on toilet seats or stuff toilet paper in toilets etc
• smear food on seats

And so on. It seems like they are not completely the same people as violent criminals, who are basically mental. But they are still engaged in this permanent war of enshittifying the world. What drives them? How conscious are they of their own essential shittiness, and is this part of it? Are they sort of embodying and enacting this on the environment? I wonder about this!

trashing their bodies, and the environment

I live l opposite a primary school and clear litter from my front garden daily.

Primary school round the corner from me. Empty crisp packets on my front after they've gone past in the afternoon.

The school was my polling station up to last year. I liked to look at the displays in the hall when I went in there to vote. One poster listed all the things 'We don't do'. One was 'We don't drop litter'. That message obviously wasn't reaching all the children.

We can never do a pick without picking up Red Bull cans or McDs crap. Must have ingredients that makes the ignorant more ignorant

I have never dropped litter. I find it incredibly disgusting and selfish.
The main offenders always appear to be smokers, vapers, outside booze or energy drink drinkers, and fast food consumers.
I draw my own conclusions from the association of these behaviours.
Dog poo is another issue of course. Can’t tell who those culprits are although perhaps dna poo analysis might be interesting.

its not helium, but nitrous oxide. They use those massive ones now which weigh about 3kg. They chuck them out from cars. One was dropped out from a car in front of me and hit the roundabout kerb. It could have done serious damage to car if went under the car.

Last week, I saw one on a mini roundabout and stopped to move it. Got beeped at. Shouted at the idiot, do you want your car to sustain massive damage? (He was in an electric car - dread to think how much that repair would cost).

I think a very high % of it is thrown from cars. No idea why people do that.

I live l opposite a primary school and clear litter from my front garden daily. A lot of it is the school's letter or homework sheets. Also loads of sweet wrappers. I'd like to think it's mostly accidental!

Then there's the inadequate recyling bags we're forced to use. There 's litter everywhere the morning the bins go out.

I've never dropped litter and I chase after it if I drop eg a tissue accidentally. We were in town once and we saw a classmate (c.6yo) of DC1's coming out of the bakery with her mum. Child took the snack out of the bag and dropped it. DC1 pounced on it and handed it back. Not to make a point, but becuase he believed she must have dropped it by mistake. Mum took it off him and put it back on the floor. It's a minority, but I think some people just don't see it as wrong.

The thing I don't get about littering is that it surely only avoids the most miniscule inconvenience for the litterer?

Like, I obviously think dog owners should pick up dog mess, and it's antisocial not to. But I do understand why they wouldn't because it's a bit grim!

But I don't get why you'd drop your crisp packet rather than put in your bag or pocket to throw away when you get home. Or why you'd leave boxes and wrappers where you ate them in the park rather than walking 2 feet to the bin.