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

[Beebopwasthebest]

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 thrown rubbish out of a car whilst car in motion, parked up or getting out of it or ever thrown rubbish on a pavement or road.

See it at times in supermarkets, road siders they have their bags of big mac/fast food and leave the rubbish I the middle of the car park even though there are bins close by

I once had a cigarette butt still smouldering land on my motorcycle's tank, against my (luckily) leather clad leg. So I simply picked it off, and carefully edged forward and popped it back through the window it was flicked from. I let it land on the gentleman's lap with a comment 'You dropped this, you litterbug'

He had shorts on.

Never. But then I've never knowingly dropped litter in my life. It was drummed into us so fiercely at primary school to the extent that when oranges given out we were assured teachers would follow us to down track dropped peel that I've never done it. Bloody Catholics.

In later years my better-informed sense of its being an intrinsically shit thing to kicked in.

Omg, absolutely not ever. I absolutely hate litterers.

No. The complete lack of respect for others this displays speaks to how disaffected the disconnected people have become.

I see this behvaiour as one of those that increase as the fabric of society diminishes.

Jesus! No!

I'm not in the UK, but I thought that sort of thing died out (mostly) in the 80s or thereabouts. I'm sure some people still do, but I haven't actually seen them do it for decades, and I certainly don't do it myself, and never would.

I have to agree that a lot of litter is food related - or drink (looking at you weekend partygoers in flat 3!).

What kind of monster does that. Disgusting

No and how amazing of your community

No, never, my parents led by example, and my children don’t drop litter either.

I litter pick in my street and an alley, it’s a short cut to a railway station and littering is rife. Mostly cans and bottles, as groups of mostly men loiter there drinking. The council tried with a bin, but it just attracted fly tipping, so it was removed.

i once challenged a women fly tipping a huge bag of wood offcuts, i must have looked quite scary as she picked it all up and probably dumped it elsewhere.

Not a chance! It's lazy and disgusting.

I bought a little bin for my car and its been amazing. I definitely recommend getting one.

@Beebopwasthebest I just don't get it... she'll hang on to the plastic and bin that at home, but whizz the paper/card in the verges in our lovely rural area!

She was really astonished just how pissed off I was at her doing this, really taken aback by it (and I was shocked at how casually she did it!) like I was somehow being over-sensitive or goody-goody!

i saw a young group of lads throw 2 bags full of Macdonalds litter out of their car whilst it was stationary in the Macdonalds car park. I went over asked them to roll window down and and put it back in their car. The main driver called me a name I can’t repeat on here but I didn’t care

It's generally young men late at night, in supped up cars. We are rural and the fast lanes are full of junk food and gas canisters.

We also get bottles of piss. I kid you not. Fairly recent phenomenon, from delivery drivers. They can't stop to piss so fill up bottles, then dump them.

Personally we also don't allow food or drink in our cars. Ever. Even when the kids were young. So no litter. We have water bottles, nothing else.

Yes, I've been behind a bin lorry on an A road before and rubbish was flying out all over the place!

No never, but I will admit that I used to drop cigarette butts in the street in my early twenties and it never crossed my mind, because it seemed like that's what everyone did on a night out.

I am now a volunteer litter picker in my local area and the litter is terrible. I make a special point of picking cigarette butts as repentance!

The state of our roadsides, particularly A roads and motorways which have a constant stream of litter alongside the carriageway is depressing.

@KnittedCardi That has a name "Driver Tizer"! It's absolutely disgusting, you see it everywhere, country lanes, lay-bys, gutters.
I can't see why they can't put it in the bin at the end of their day. I get it, you get caught short, but really, just throwing it out of the window?! And that's definitely men, I certainly couldn't pee in a bottle! Don't think most women could! Vile! 🤢

You think that’s bad- the summit of Everest is like a dustbin crossed with an open air morgue.

Don’t ask how, but I ended up falling down a YouTube rabbit hole and watching a video about motorway traffic officers, and they showed a lay-by on I think it was the M25… shit and bottles of piss everywhere. Poor bloke was trying not to vomit cleaning it all up.

Nope. It gets shoved in the back till I can be arsed cleaning the car.

I realise this still makes me lazy but at least I'm not littering.

Good heavens, no.
And I ill wish those that do.

I would never throw litter at all - whether out of my car or otherwise! It drives me absolutely mad when I see litter dropped.

There is absolutely no excuse. If there isn't a bin nearby, you either take the litter home to put into your own bin, or hang on to it until you find a bin.

Quite happily support the death penalty for anyone who litters. It's objectively worse than going up to a random stranger and punching them in the face.

When you litter, you are saying to an entire community of strangers you have no respect for their environment and well being.