Hands up: do you chuck rubbish out of your car window?

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My city is having its annual big litter picking weekend. Hundred of volunteers clearing their local areas and placing full bags near bins for the council to collect. It's fabulous😊.

My "picking" area tends to be heavy traffic and it's clear most of the litter is food and drink related and thrown from car windows when drivers are waiting at traffic lights.

I am quite interested to know who does this and why (someone must!). It's not dropped by accident and there will surely be an easy to use bin when you leave your car? Posted for traffic and the mix of opinions.

I tend to have a positive mind set when volunteering..no point getting too angry about litterers - I just hope one day, someone spots a windswept middle aged woman clearing the roads and decides to change their behaviour!

Never - but it'll be the same tw@s who just drop their litter in McD's car park when there is a million bins around them.

They probably aren't great at reading or writing.

Never have.

The only thin I have ever thrown out of a car window are apple cores and only in rural areas where the local wildlife could. Make use of them

No, I would never. I put gum in whatever’s lying around (receipt or tissue) and any food I use the bins where I park or wait till I get home to use my own bin.
I was once pulled up behind a car at a junction and the driver threw a whole salad bowl out the window then drove off!!

I’ve seen grim looking men throw things out vans 🤢and all sorts of people throw out fag ends. I like to think it’s mostly bins that have had items blown out.

Absolutely not - I hate litter and wouldn’t dream of throwing litter anywhere but the bin

Absolutely not, I was once behind a van when a pile of litter and old sandwiches came flying out of the window. I noted the van's number and the company's name, when I got home I called the company and reported their staff's behaviour. Not sure what happened but I felt better!

I am always baffled by people who litter. It's beyond lazy, in fact, it almost takes more effort sometimes than to just put it in a bin.

The most baffling one I ever saw was half way up Scafell Pike - two lads sat down to eat their sandwiches (they'd got themselves a meal deal from Boots by the looks of it) a little way up the path from where we were eating ours. They finished their lunch and just got up and walked away leaving all their rubbish on the side of the path. We called them back and they acted like they'd forgotten/were just about to come back for it, and the very churlishly shoved it in to their bags. (and had to keep it for the rest of their walk as we were of course behind them the whole way!).

But I just couldn't believe that they'd done it. Who did they think would clear it up? And they'd made the effort to walk up a beautiful mountain, but thought nothing of lobbing their sandwich wrappers and cans half way up it? Such bizarre behaviour.

I have dropped Apple cores etc into bushes and I’m ashamed to admit when I smoked as a teen, early twenties I would often drop butts on the floor as I didn’t really think it counted as litter which is bizarre now.

the country lane I walk down for the bus to work connects to an arterial road that comes off the motorway and I often see people dumping their rubbish out of their car windows once off the main busy road. Men in BMWs, men in white vans or cars full of teens, but again predominantly men.

Never! To those that do - take your damn rubbish home with you

There's quite a few apple trees on an A road near me. I like seeing them. Makes a nice change from Buddlia.

Never, but the inside of my car is a tip.

I did that too, I saw two blokes wiping the inside of a misted up car with some kind of wipe then dropping them out the window. I marched up, picked up the wipe and threw it back in the window’you dropped this pal!’ No ‘I think’ he did look embarrassed. I also called out a guy who dropped his cigarette on the ground just a few feet from a bin ‘excuse me, could you bin your rubbish please?’

My pockets are always filled with wrappers etc as it was drummed into me by my mum. ‘Do not drop litter, only idiots and dirty people do that!’

I would never and no one I knew would either. I was once standing outside a shop and watched a middle age lady with a teenage girl her the car parked in the carpark right in front of shop, open her door and carefully push a Macdonalds takeaway bag full of rubbish under her car then reverse out the space and drive away with all the rubbish flying around the car park as she left. I really couldn’t believe she thought that was an acceptable way of disposing of rubbish!

My next door neighbours throw rubbish out of the car door outside their own house, on their own street. It's absolutely gross. I picked all the rubbish out of the garden today that had blown in from them, and from parents on the school run who drop rubbish over the front wall.

Same! The inside of my car is shameful. I should buy a car bin or something. I do occasionally clear it out and feel ashamed at finding 20 empty Diet Coke cans, banana skins and Kit Kat wrappers. 😳 I drive a lot for work but even so!

I would worry if I did throw something out the car window, it would just fly back in and hit me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

When the kids were little, I used to remove the front seat headrest and slot the 'prongs ' through the handle of a carrier bag, then put the headrest back for the kids to put litter in, so the bag and the litter stayed secure.
It's a habit I've kept so I've always got a rubbish bag to put litter in.

My dad died a couple of years ago and thanks to an inheritance I have, for the first time in my life, a nice car. I don't eat in it (in previous cars I have picked up fast food at lunchtime and eaten in the car, I let the family eat in it - no more). I permanently have a bottle of water in the car and a travel mug of coffee for my drive to work but I refuse to eat in my car.
Someone I worked with many years ago smoked in her car. One day she threw a cigarette end out the window and it flew back in, landing in her DD's car seat in the back. Fortunately her DD wasn't with her.

Nope. I have never chucked rubbish out of the car window. In fact, my daughter did it several years ago whilst I was waiting at a junction, so I made her get out and pick it up. Can't stand littering!

No I never would (probably why my car is a total disgrace 😬)

My dad did growing up though, so I guess he's one of them!

The only time I ever throw anything out is apple core. I'd never throw out a crisp packet or something.

I was with my great aunt once (90, quite posh) she through rubbish out the window once. My horrified 18 year old self was too scared to say anything. She died not long after so didn't need to bring it up

No no no