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?

Not sure about the banana skins. Bushes aren't compost heaps

People seem to take a different view on apple cores and banana skins - are they different? I assumed in both cases some little insects would eat them. I'm happy to accept I could be wrong though!

I would only do it in the countryside, not in an urban or suburban area.

Never. I'm a litter picker.

I bet the majority of cigarette smokers have littered and still litter.

Just take your rubbish home with you, whatever it is. If you wouldn’t throw it on the ground in your own home, don’t throw it on the ground in someone else’s. That hedge is home to a lot of wildlife who don’t want your peel or grapes or whatever other bits of detritus you want to get rid of.

Just leave it to rot away? To you leave rubbish in your garde? Can you not take your rubbish home or just find a bin? I am sure there was a bin near.

Do you throw apple cores in your garden to rot? No?

The Keep Britain Tidy campaign began in 1955, initiated by a conference of 26 organizations following a resolution by the National Federation of Women's Institutes in 1954 to start a national anti-litter campaign. The original campaign featured initiatives like the "Tidy Man" symbol, public information films such as those featuring the animated character Dusty the Kangaroo, and then campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s aimed at reducing litter and promoting recycling.

You are wrong.

'Little insects' would struggle to demolish a banana skin

And there are rats in the countryside too

Fair enough. I’ll take the banana skins home with me in future.

I never ever litter. Why would anyone ? It's dangerous to wildlife as well as an eye sore

I used to work in a school. One summer a group of pupils sat eating their lunch on the grass, all fine. They then got up and left their litter on the grass, a teacher told them to go and pick it up, to which one of them said it’s ok , the Janitor picks it up …

I don't litter at all

When mine where small,I'd carry a carrier bag on the handle of the buggy the rubbish the dc produced

My friend allowed hers to just throw rubbish on the floor and walk off (there would be a bin in front of her and she'd walk past it while telling them to throw it on the floor

I work at a druve-thru

There are 5 bins scattered around (2 at the exit) and we are sent out 3 times a day to litter pick as people can't be bothered to lean out if the car window to put their rubbish in them and they just dump it and drive off

The same people leave their trays/mess at the table/floor while walking past at least 3 bins on their way out-i work so hard to empty them as soon as they are 3/4ths full

It's disgusting

My grandad taught me to 'take nothing but photographs and leave nothing but footprints'

(If I've made a spelling mistake and this is unreadable,I apologise,I'm slightly paranoid now after another poster who very nicely pointed out that i do this due to dyslexia,i have triple checked my post but my brain may have missed one)

I was hoping @didntlikeanyofthesuggestions would come back to explain herself or tell us she was winding us up.

I agree. I’ve used cardboard as a weed suppressant in my garden (under mulch). It’s still there, more than six months later, though somewhat degraded. I’d imagine plastic-containing pizza boxes will be there for a long time.

Yes - me too. I have a feeling they weren't joking though. I assume that by their logic, they would be happy for people passing their front garden to just chuck empty pizza boxes there as the birds could use them for a house!

I doubt she will after these responses. Whilst I don’t agree with what she did at all, her rationale was the incorrect assumption that it would break down quickly and be used by wildlife. I wish she’d been given the benefit of the doubt and educated rather than piled on.

Again - I assume you're happy for people to use your garden as a bin seeing as it will break down quickly?!

Absolutely not, I said I didn’t agree with what she’d done. I don’t litter either, before you start!

Sorry - I misread your message.

No never because I’m not an antisocial bastard. There is no excuse. If there isn’t a bin take it home.

I took relatives to a local park this summer. It was full of food litter like this. It was also full of rats. I’ve never seen so many rats, walking around in broad daylight. Pizza boxes aren’t going to quickly compost if they’re shoved in the bushes.

Never, consciously.
I have left a paper cup on the sidelines after a long football match, once.
I taught my DC from a young age, to save their papers until we find a bin.
If everyone threw one piece of rubbish, the streets would be covered.

I can’t believe anyone would go on a public forum and outrightly admit to teaching birds arts and crafts by leaving them empty pizza boxes to build a house with.

That is littering and totally unacceptable.