To think people treat the world like their own dump?

[AbzMoz]

On the train today. It stops at a station. Man puts his empty can down on the station platform. I politely say, are you leaving it there, aye? He says what else can I do with it?
how about taking it to a bin you moron?
to be clear this was a fully capable, grown man.

Agree, he was a dick, snd people leaving rubbish on trains pisses me off. There are bins, use them

The one that bug me are the one's who park their car in residential carpark then tip their subway/Macdonald's crap out so their car is tidy but content to turn where we live into a tip.
Two large recycling bins either side of the carpark about ten metres apart.

Do they have bins in rail stations? I know in some places they just don’t have bins and really shouldn’t be surprised that people put down a can and leave it.

You’re right, they do. The absolute state of grass verges and the roadside is a national disgrace. It can only be lobbed from cars - I mean, who actually does that? People are disgusting.

I wish we could heavily fine all these idiots. They deserve it, and looking at the state of the streets, there are too many of them.

The worst ones are the ones on the beach.

On the way to the pub the other night I noticed a huge bag of rubbish on the pavement - noodles, cans etc spilling out everywhere. It was a huge shopping bag and looked like someone had just lobbed it out of their car. 🤮

Still there on the way back, so I took it home and put it in our bin. Too big for public bin.

I think British people in general have quite poor public behaviour and this extends to poor behaviour around litter. They don't see public spaces as "theirs".

But then that remove from ownership/responsibility widens when you look at western attitudes to waste disposal in general - we think we're throwing things "away" when really we're putting them in a container that someone else picks up, and someone else transports, and someone else ships, and someone else transports ... and so on, until you end up with a massive floating island of crap in the Pacific Ocean, that pollutes the waterways and gives the fish and animals and all the kiddies cancer.

And then you realise there is no "away", there is no good place to put your crap. So actually a station platform is maybe as good as anywhere.

It’s not just the British people. I have seen rubbish & graffiti everywhere in our travels throughout Europe & the US. The few Asian countries I’ve visited & Canada are measurably cleaner.

Don't be daft.

He could've taken it with him and binned it as soon as he found one.

He was happy to carry it while he was drinking it, why did it become such a burden when he'd finished?

Oh I absolutely hate this too, litter dropping from people’s hands as if they haven’t even stopped to think about finding a bin.

A few years ago a friend and I were going to the local little theatre. On the way in we saw a car full of girls also headed for the theatre. Four girls opened the car doors and chucked the remains of a Chinese take away all around the car.
At the interval my friend vanished for a good ten minutes and when we came out after the show the Chinese containers were neatly lined up on the car roof whilst the leftover Chinese was decorating the car windows nicely. She swears she didn’t do I but I kind of hope she did!! 😆