To ask if you drop litter?

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And if so, why?

The amount of rubbish I see dropped on the floor always astounds me, so presumably a LOT of people do it. Country lanes around here are littered with rubbish presumably thrown out of car windows, which I find particularly lazy (just take it home where you presumably have a fully functioning bin!). I know some of it blows out of public bins, or escapes from refuse vehicles/landfill, etc, but I don't believe that accounts for all of it (or am I wrong?).

I was raised not to drop litter and have been known to frantically chase down an errant receipt on a windy day , so I just can't fathom dropping litter at all. Even if there isn't a bin nearby (and I know that is an issue sometimes) then why is dropping it a better option than putting it in a pocket/bag until you find a bin or get home?!

AIBU in asking who is dropping it all, and why, and how can we stop it?

Fine people more. And I'm not talking which people accidentally drop something and go to pick it up etc...... but people who genuinely drop things to litter. It works in Singapore! And when I say fine I think like Singapore it should be a community service fine. They are made to pick up litter for x hours not just throw £50 at it.

In a very small park yesterday that our council has just built and put at least 8 massive bins in I picked up 2 crisp packets.
Only about a dozen people in the place.
My dc don't drop litter - in my view at least. Why would you want where you live to look like a tip?

I pick up other people's litter.

The abusive ex used to drop litter. He was an entitled fucker. It's what entitled fuckers do.

Lack of bins maybe? Where I am there aren’t many bins at all. So I’m guessing people don’t want to carry it around till they find one.

I hate litter and I’m not afraid to pull people up on it. I have had some run ins with people who think it’s fine and that someone gets paid to pick it up ffs.

We live in a naice area, but there are two schools within 5 minutes walk on either side of my home. My front garden is full of sweet wrappers and crisp packets. It's the school kids - teenagers. I keep meaning to contact the school and ask them to do something to raise awareness of the utter vileness of littering.

No.Never.Nor do my DCs .We all hate it in our family and I never return from a walk without a bag of rubbish.
I've even jumped out of my car to post litter back through someone's window in a queue of traffic because I was so incensed. That's probably not advisable.The busiest roads and junctions locally are a disgrace.Who are these people that can't just take it to the nearest bin or home ?I wish there was some seriously punatative punishment for it ,and fly tipping.A zero tolerance to change the perception of the small minority that ruin the enviroment for the majority that care.

I'm not sure if a lot of people do it. I think a minority of dickheads do it but it's enough to cause a big mess. For example - if 20 groups of people go camping at a camp site for 1 night, and 18 of those groups take all of their rubbish away with them, and 2 groups leave everything behind, all it takes is one windy afternoon and then the entire campsite is covered in rubbish. People can generate a lot of rubbish in a short space of time.

Yes I drop litter, in the sense that I would chuck an apple core or similar into a hedge. I personally don't regard something biodegradable in that sense as litter but according to MN rules it definitely is.

I never ever drop litter.
I fetch it all home in my handbag.

Never. It's a disgusting thing to do. I pick up other people's rubbish and so does DS now. He calls people that drop litter "naught people"!

If something blows away (away away like I would have to search for it and probably wouldn’t find it anyway) I don’t bother because the street are cleaned very throughly and frequently where I live. But if I drop something and can see it I just go pick it up/put it in the bin. That said there as a lot of bins around where I live so it’s gardly an encumbrance.

No I don’t. I was brought up properly and taught to put it in a bin or take it home

The number of people who don’t seem to count fag ends as litter is astounding as well

Out on a lovely country wall on Friday, bagged dog poo all along it.

I have no clue why people think it's ok to do this. Bag & remove, don't leave it to an imaginary poo fairy to do your job.

Ashamed to have dogs really.

I get so annoyed. No excuse.

Dcs always brought home litter in pockets if no bin.

No, I don't. People who toss litter out of their car annoy me the most, just take it home and put it in a bin.

A guy at work recently got fined for dropping a cigarette butt in the street. He got chatting to the litter warden who fined him, and he told him he had fined one woman three times, she just kept dropping cig butts.

Dog poo. I have been known to get one a poo bag out and deal with somebody else's dog's shit, because a) it makes me furious b) it's disgusting and c) I don't want dogs banned from the playing fields. Drives me nuts.

When I was at secondary school, every Friday after assembly we all had to go on a litter pick round the school grounds for about 5-10 mins. And if we didn't do it properly, we were sent out again. It was overseen by staff, so slacking off was noted. I think it set some good habits.

If something blows out my hand and is whisked a few feet away I might not chase after it, but everything else gets picked up and disposed of properly.

@BigRedLondonBus then don't create the litter to start with if you're not prepared to carry it. An empty bottle takes as much effort to carry as a full one. Or crisp packet etc.

Drives me potty at school when the. Kids get given sweets at home time and you see a path of wrappers up the path. And I wholly blame the parents, although my 3 yo knows he passes all the wrapper to Mum to hold

The park near us is full of litter at the end of a warm day in summer. People carry food and drink up there but can't make the effort to carry the empties home. I don't understand it.

If people are capable of holding a packet, bottle whatever while they eat and drink then they are more than capable of carrying tne litter untill they reach a bin or home. Lack of bins is no excuse.

Nope, I wouldn’t dream of it. I find the notion of littering highly embarrassing and if my DC did it I’d be mortified and tell them off immediately.

I have carried lots of litter around in pram basket/my bag/pockets before now until we have reached a bin.

I don’t. Can’t imagine ever just dropping something out of my hand onto the street and an always very open mouthed when I see someone do it.

My kids are extremely concerned about wildlife getting trapped in rubbish and my 6 year old spent Thursday lunch time litter picking at school bless her (not that they should need litter pickers at school ).

Fine them all!!!

Never but our area is terrible for it. I have a business and litter pick the surrounding area several times a week to keep it looking tidy, we also organise a monthly community litter pick and my dc like to pick whenever we have a little walk! It is slowly improving but people seem to think their council tax should cover litter picking...um, how about just not dropping it?!

Never. It upsets me how much litter the kids at school drop, and no amount of education or drilling it into them or telling them off makes them change. It's disgusting.