Do You drop litter?

[vikkimoog]

Judging by the vast amount of litter everywhere, there must be a fair few people in every walk of life who drop litter.
So, if you do, could you tell me why as I am genuinely puzzled as to why anybody would do this?
prompted by seeing a massive pile of empty bottles/ wrappers at a traffic lights where motorists have obviously lobbed stuff out the window

I despise litterers from the very bottom of my soul. If I could have one magic wish in life it would be a return to owner spell and every piece of purposely dropped littler be instantly returned to the bastard who intentionally dropped it. The worst offenders would be crushed to death under the weight of their ignorant disgusting behaviour.

Aaaaand breathe, Quip.

Same goes for dog shit leavers who are fully aware their dog has crapped on a pavement and they walk away with no intention of clearing it up.

Same goes for dog shit leavers who are fully aware their dog has crapped on a pavement and they walk away with no intention of clearing it up.

That goes beyond mere littering. Maybe tie the offenders down and force dogshit into their mouths until they choke to death ? Although I agree it's probably too much of a let off. I'll trawl my classics shelves later for some tougher punishments ....

I've said this before, and I think I first got the idea from mnet; I live one choc bar/ice cream wrapper/cigarette foil away from a shop. Litter is constantly pushed into my hedge or thrown over it.
Once a week I work from home and my desk faces the window to the front.

Now when I see the scummy offenders I quickly go and shout them back to tell them they've dropped something

I've had a few nasty comments, but mostly people are embarrassed or apologetic. One bloke thanked me as I handed him his childs 'dropped' Quavers packet There are a couple of the kids on the street now (they play out round here) who do the same so I'm hoping it will eventually get through to people!
It's an estate where people do know each other and their neighbours so I'm aware they probably chat shit about me behind d my back but I coukdnt give a toss

It absolutely baffles me not just people throwing things down in the street but also just chucking rubbish out of their car windows.

I witness people doing these things all the time, why do they do it?

DD volunteers at a hedgehog rescue in a rural area. They get a lot of McD's rubbish on their lane and the lady who runs the rescue collects it up and takes it back to the McDs down the road. She says she's going to campaign to shut the Drive Thru as it's causing such a problem.

I absolutely detest seeing litter.

The inside footwell of my car often resembles a dustbin, but that's because I take all my litter home with me and don't empty my car often enough. 😂

Im 50 and grew up in the era of watching the wombles (I did think they were real) and also remember we had anti litter campaigns at school, as well as having parents who taught me from the earliest possible age to use a bin or take it home.

Never. Those who do are twats.

I've seen all types do it, even these days. The little teenage scumbag (holy terror or the area) regularly throws cans, chip wrappers etc over her shoulder right in front of me. I was in my car waiting for DH and watched a grown man eat a pizza while leaning in a bin (there is one every 20 meters or so of our village high street) and instead of putting the pizza box under his arm into the bin, he launched it frisbee style into the road and walked away.
Local Jeremy Kyle guest type woman has about 5 kids, all of whom do it. The youngest was eating crisps in the local takeaway and upon finishing them, simply dropped the bag onto the shop floor. He older sister spat him out onto my hall floor in my damn house!

I remember Russell Howard doing a lovely rant about littering. He said his mother wouldn’t stand for it.
When someone chucked some rubbish out of a car, his mum marched up and stuck it back in through the window.
The driver said “I don’t want it”
Howard’s mum: “Nor does Norwich!”
We need a few more like her!

No but I do pick it up. The town have regular beach cleans in the summer to tidy up after the holiday makers that are well attended by both adults and children so hopefully our children won't drop litter in the future as they've picked up other peooles. Some of the beach cafes lend out a bucket and litter picker and in return for a full bucket you get a free hot drink.

I keep a roll of black bags, 2 litter pickers and gloves in the car, whenever we go for a walk along the beach we take them with us, as a bonus Dd walk far further without moaning if she's got a job to do. If the dog walkers that have to walk their dogs twice a day did it too the place would be spotless and they are out walking anyway.

I wonder about this too. I wouldn't dream of dropping little. Some must below out of bins, both domestic and in public but still people are dropping a lot too.

'Nor does Norwich'

They get a lot of McD's rubbish on their lane and the lady who runs the rescue collects it up and takes it back to the McDs down the road. She says she's going to campaign to shut the Drive Thru as it's causing such a problem.

When I daydream about ruling the world, such establishments will have to print a barcode on the bags, wrappers and cups which links back to the purchasers address. Any found blowing around are returned to the litterer.

(Ruling the world daydreams don't need to be picked apart, by the way )

I see things like harp toothpicks and cotton buds dropped on the pavement.

Most of the litter is cans and soft drink bottles. They are usually about a third full.

Empty cigarette packets and crisps packets are common too.

@KatherineJaneway

Your totally right!

Spat gum out on my hall floor. Not him. Ffs autocorrect.

It's so weird! I travel on a narrow road over the Yorkshire dales quite often, no pavements so only motorists travel it and the amount of rubbish astounds me.
It's appalling to sully such a beautiful landscape with your old rubbish because you can't be arsed to take it home!

I could never drop litter. Only shit brained people drop litter

Generally? No. I am quite environmentally conscious in many ways.

However, I have been "caught short" recently when my DC toddler threw up in the car on the way to childcare (cough-related - not D&V!) and I did my best cleaning the car and car seat up with the wet wipes I had, but there was no bin in sight and none on my way into work later. I will admit to dropping those wipes before having them stink out my car all day.

Then again I also regularly litter-pick.

I've seen someone toss McDonald's rubbish out their car window near where I live. It's over two hours away from the nearest McDonald's, so they travelled past probably hundreds of bins but decided to throw it in a country lane instead. Selfish twats.

ncdotcom sorry but that's revolting.
Why does your want to not have a smelly car trump the people who don't want to see vomity wipes on the pavement.
revolting
Although has given an interesting insight into mentality. So, basically people don't want smelly wrappers ( or wipes) in the car so toss them.

Surely any parent knows to have something for collecting rubbish in ? DS is 23 now, and from day one we were never without something that could have bagged up rubbish.

I hope ncdotcom isn't in a job where planning is involved ....

ncdotcom does the childcare setting not possess any dustbins? How odd

When I was growing up, there was a phase of litter bins being removed from public places due to bomb scares so I was trained from an early age to take it home with me if there was no bin in sight. We always had a 'rubbish bag' on day trips - of course, we were blithely unconscious of the environmental impact of throwing away plastic carrier bags back then.

I think possibly a bag of vomit on a stretch of road in the middle of nowhere could very possibly, maybe, ever so slightly be near to acceptable. Assuming said vomit is the result of say, travel sickness and a bag of vomit could and would end up making all the other passengers throw up too (I know the smell of vomit would have me losing my dinner after a pretty short time.)
But that's me. Many cars don't have an enclosed boot to keep the offending item in and many travel sickness bags can't be tied up and sealed.