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?

No I don’t but looking at my local area, I think lack of rubbish collection is a big factor, as well as allowing too many take aways in certain areas-their business rates should be covering clear up of the immediate area so not sure what happens there

I don't drop cigs, but they are degradable, tobacco and paper, no plastic in mine.

No and I judge people who do. If there's not a bin nearby I'll take it with me until I find one. No bins is no excuse.

Never.

I have a littler picker and do the local park and around my house. pity my grotty neighbours can't see litter in front of them..

Actually some of the worst are people who flick cigarettes out of car windows. It drives me crazy. Usually smart cars like BMWs or Audi's too. It's that sense of "not my problem" and the entitlement that I can't stand.

I have to say I can understand cigarettes. They are hard to extinguish so you’d be mad to keep them somewhere flammable, and they set fire to bins frequently. Often they need a good stamping on to ensure they’re out (I’m not a smoker so don’t actually do this but it does make sense)

I have been known to pick up litter and hand it back to the litterer saying 'I think you dropped this'
I even threw a bag of rubbish back into a car after the driver threw it out the window.

I have also picked up litter thrown out by a driver and lobbed it back into his open window with a cheery, ‘you dropped something’!

I don't. I think it's fucking terrible behaviour (because it is such a small effort to use a bin). I make people pick theirs up if I see them drop it.

How odd no one has yet replied 'yes'!
No I don't. I pick up quite a lot as I wander about but usually only when I can see a bin.
Its incomprehensible really. In a world so full of horrible things with no easy solution, litter could be stopped tomorrow if people just didn't drop it.

No!!!
I cannot stand littering. It is disgusting and it drives me mad seeing people do it. So disrespectful. It's one of the few things in the world that really gets me cross!
Why these people can't just take it home and put it in the bin, I'll never know. Especially those scumbags who throw their crap out of car windows. Disgusting!!

jasjas we get the same here in the Peaks. Bags and bags of rubbish left by people coming to enjoy the countryside just thrown from their car windows.

Dog shit in bags tucked up into walls.

Tissues and sweet wrappers from ramblers

Helium balloons and lanterns.... each time there is a balloon release event / protest and primary school "weather experiments" in Manchester or Liverpool that releases balloons we spend months picking them off the slopes of the Pennines.

No it gives me the rage and I can’t understand anyone who would do it.

No, I do not drop litter and find it disgusting and annoying that people do.
Over the Easter weekend all the bins at the riverside and around the local Green were overflowing, despite the council doing the rounds to empty bins constantly. And it wasn't that there aren't enough bins, there are plenty.
People just dripped their litter next to the bins. From my point of view: If you can carry your six packs of beer and wine bottles to the river when they are full, you can carry the empty bottles and cans and dispose of them at home.

Every morning I walk past a Gregg's, McDonalds and a Pub. Every morning it is a complete mess, especially outside the Golden Arches. Companies like these should be obliged to clean the pavement outside their premises. Instead the council cleaners do it, without fail, every morning.
And there are two bins right outside McD's, and they are never full, it is just so much easier to just drop the litter.
Fast Food outlets should charge a deposit on takeaway orders, which is at least as much as the meal itself, maybe that would solve the problem.

I was parked near a shop in my town the other day and 3 kids were playing a game counting up how many of each brand of dropped energy drink can they could find.

Our town could be lovely but many areas are a mess of dog crap and litter.

One of the worst things is the beach in the summer - tourists and locals alike just leave entire picnics worth of rubbish at their arses.

What I find really bad is the huge pile of cigarette butts on the ground next to bins, or left stubbed out on the top. The smokers have bothered to put them out correctly on the top but not bothered to then put them into the bin below leaving them to Blow off at the first gust. There are always about 50 or so all around the bins in my local town.

God no.

Real issue with fly tipping around me. And general litter dropping.

Honestly don't understand the mentality. Its not hard to keep your liter with you until you find a bin.

I don't drop cigs, but they are degradable, tobacco and paper, no plastic in mine

They take ages to biodegrade though! Still litter. Just like an orange peel on the floor is litter. Or a banana skin. Or the biodegradable plant based takeaway containers.

Never, its disgusting. Most of the litter in our streets is due to bin men though. I've witnessed them dropping it out the bins and just walking away, it flying out the bin lorries. It's a lot worse since we started recycling everything.

No. It's disgusting. But somebody must be doing it. Taking up cycling has opened my eyes to the amount of rubbish people throw out of their cars.
I really can't understand it.

Nobody will own up to it. But I do suspect a fairly large proportion of it is teenage bravado- it’s a very easy way of rebelling and showing that you’re a big tough guy who doesn’t care about upsetting grownups.

No. Never. Pisses me off no end. I’ll pick it up sometimes though!

Sometimes chuck fruit ends in a bush but anything actually rubbish gets left in the car till I clean it at the end of the week 😂😂😂

TBF you're going to notice if there's no bins only if you don't want to litter, one area in the city centre is particularly annoying.

Proud DS doesn't litter at all either (he's 4), though he'll happily leave rubbish around the living room .
I did have a woman moaning at me for littering in our native language, she turned green when I replied in the same language . For context, a receipt flew out of my hand when I was crossing the road whilst pushing the pram, funnily enough I didn't let go and start chasing it .

Most of the litter in our streets is due to bin men though. I've witnessed them dropping it out the bins and just walking away, it flying out the bin lorries. It's a lot worse since we started recycling everything.
This!!!!!!!!!! They take no pride in their jobs round here and end up scattering bits of recycling along the pavement through laziness and the crap way they wave the recycling boxes at their wheelie bins. The roads are fine before they go round unless it's been really windy, but afterwards there's crap everywhere. They can drop a bit right by their feet and not bother picking it up. I end up putting loads of bits back in the empty boxes as I walk the dog along where they've been. Drives me bloody mad.