To ask if anyone will admit to littering?

[Icanttakethisanymore]

I am genuinely intrigued to see if anyone will admit to littering, on purpose. I was walking through the woods earlier and there was a starbucks cup and a few can discarded along my route. I am sure that occasionally people drop things by accident but undoubtedly some of it is intentional. I genuinely can't imagine chucking my rubbish on the floor so if anyone will admit to it, why do you do it?

@OtherS interesting you think it's got worse. I wonder why that would be. In NZ people are more environmentally conscious generally than people are here (more interested in conservation for example, the Green party always gets a lot of seats in parliament) so I think that's part of it.

NZ has only about 3 million people compared to about 60 million in the UK and a comparable surface area, that's one reason we have so much more litter here.

But we need to act!

It takes about two months for an apple core to rot away when dumped outside. Please take your litter home with you, whatever it is.

Maybe it’s the three little birds version of the three little pigs the bird mum tells them to move out , one makes a house from a pizza box😂😂

Providing bins can make the issue worse as litter can either blow out, be pulled out by scavanging wildlife or be left piled up next to over flowing bins where it's more susceptible to being left.

The amount exposed on roadsides after vegetation is trimmed has been deliberately lobbed out of vehicle windows and is a depressing sight, both in itself, and as evidence of the way so many people behave.

5 million but interesting point. I checked the population density of Montenegro Vs the UK as the rubbish was so shocking in Montenegro. 47/sq km for Montenegro, 279 for the UK. I suppose when it comes to countries which are otherwise similar in a lot of ways, like the UK and NZ, population density will be significant.

My husband is a "tradie", he was driving behind a man in a luxury car who threw litter out of the window. DH followed him, then threw the rubbish out if his van onto the man's garden, shouted something along the lines of, "I saw you lose yours so here's a free replacement".

We actually had quite an argument about this, I said DH was wrong because he a)couldn't be certain it was the man's house (could be visiting),
b) the guy could have escalated to violence

c) DH's van has signwriting including our address on it so with cctv etc he's easily traced and
d) ultimately DH also littered

Littering is disgusting, whatever it is. It's not hard to carry it until you find a bin or take a rubbish bag out with you and dispose of it as soon as you can, responsibly.
It shows a level of limited intelligence to me. It was also drummed into me as a young child, not to drop litter and I never have.
And chewing gum is one of the worst. Birds get it stuck on their beaks and starve to death. The amount of discarded gas canisters I see when I'm driving around is also horrific. That seems to have taken over from the people who used to empty their car ashtrays all over the road!
I'm absolutely baffled by some of the excuses on here! Pizza boxes breaking down, foxes causing it?! Seriously, if foxes are such a problem, secure your bins better! I have foxes visiting my garden, but they don't touch the bins as they can't get into them!
Litterers may want to live in a shithole, but the rest of us don't.

Not rtft so don’t know if they were joking, but anyone who chucks their rubbish under bushes is a vile, lazy disgrace of a human. ‘No bins nearby’ ffs take it home with you, you disgusting pig 😡.
On another note, why are there always dozens of dirty nappies left in makeshift carparks after annual events (like county shows)? Who are these entitled people?

That’s disgusting! You should have taken them with you

Summary execution really is too good for people who litter.

My mum was a stickler for not leaving rubbish anywhere inappropriate. I can still remember being about 6 and getting into my mum’s bed one morning for a cuddle . Suddenly she said “ I don’t remember you bringing home your mars wrapper when I opened the door to you yesterday after you’d been out playing “ . She then sent me out to find it ( which I did) . I never littered again and i’m past middle age now.

Never, ever. It’s just unthinkable.

I once saw a man sitting in traffic throw litter onto the road I was about to cross. I picked it up and threw it onto his lap.

I have never consciously littered in my life and would (semi-seriously) welcome capital punishment for it. Absolutely vile antisocial behaviour.

I remember an episode of Mad Men where Don Draper and his family were having a picnic, and at the end of it they got up and shook their picnic blanket onto the ground leaving all their rubbish behind. I think it was meant to show how environmental concerns weren’t big in the 60s (or just how selfish they were) but clearly there are still people today who would do the same.

Complain to the school.

It’s not me that’s littering. So these aren’t excuses. They are valid reasons why a person might do it.

Sorry, I apologise

So, this is an aside, but I think most people do not realise this:

Biodegradable material in anaerobic conditions (like landfill) does not break down into carbon dioxide and water, it makes methane which is twenty times more active as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Take them home.

Great trolling with the bird house comment. 🤣

I went on a date 20 years ago with a guy that threw his mars bars wrapper out of the car window. I was in shock and have never forgotten it. He was so nice and normal and I presumed nice, normal people didn't litter!

No, but it does depend where the bushes are. Food waste can encourage rats.

And why didn’t you just take it home with you? Dirty lazy bastards!!!

So why couldn't you take them home?

That was the definition of littering!

How difficult is it to 'not to'?