Littering

[ChrissyRyan]

I am amazed that so much trash is left in parking lots, on streets, literally everywhere.
These are not garbage cans!

What are people thinking when they do this?
I believe they are NOT thinking or just thinking of tossing what they do not want to keep in their vehicles or hands.

Chrissy

[davina61]

Bad manners and idleness, something prevalent in modern society

[Sephirah]

I am amazed that so much trash is left in parking lots, on streets, literally everywhere.
These are not garbage cans!

What are people thinking when they do this?
I believe they are NOT thinking or just thinking of tossing what they do not want to keep in their vehicles or hands.

Chrissy

In the UK, stuff like that is far more stringent. You can be fined $75 if either a cop sees you, an auxilliary cop sees you, or someone reports you. I know someone it happened to. They flicked a cigarette butt into the street. They got a spot fine because a "community support officer" happened to be walking past. Was the most expensive cigarette they ever smoked.

[Tills]

In the UK, stuff like that is far more stringent.

Well not so much nowadays. Littering is appalling now in the UK. The country is smattered in rubbish and getting worse by the day. No one seems to care and no one does anything about it. It's horrific.

Contrast with a country like Norway or Ireland is massive.

[Devlyn ✅]

I got a Christmas gift that was tickets to a foraging course. You know, "find survival food in the fields and forests".

So we drive out to the wilds of Norfolk and  meet up with everyone else.  There's a round of quick Introductions and we set off into the woods looking for nature's bounty. About twenty minutes in the lady who introduced herself from London just casually tossed her Starbucks cup off the side of the trail.

That's the spirit, lady. Get out into the unspoiled countryside....and spoil it. 

[ChrissyRyan]

I got a Christmas gift that was tickets to a foraging course. You know, "find survival food in the fields and forests".

So we drive out to the wilds of Norfolk and  meet up with everyone else.  There's a round of quick Introductions and we set off into the woods looking for nature's bounty. About twenty minutes in the lady who introduced herself from London just casually tossed her Starbucks cup off the side of the trail.

That's the spirit, lady. Get out into the unspoiled countryside....and spoil it. 

That was inappropriate to toss out in the woods.  Ugh.

[Tills]

I got a Christmas gift that was tickets to a foraging course. You know, "find survival food in the fields and forests".

So we drive out to the wilds of Norfolk and  meet up with everyone else.  There's a round of quick Introductions and we set off into the woods looking for nature's bounty. About twenty minutes in the lady who introduced herself from London just casually tossed her Starbucks cup off the side of the trail.

That's the spirit, lady. Get out into the unspoiled countryside....and spoil it. 

Unbelievable 

But speaking of Norfolk, if you take the A47 / A14 across the Midlands it is strewn with rubbish pretty much the whole way. The same is true in Surrey where I'm currently living. There are more trees here than any other county in England and people seem to see that as a reason to behave like your lady on the foraging course: woods are for littering right?

During my fortnight travelling through Norway I saw two pieces of litter the entire trip. Ireland was very similar.

[Devlyn ✅]

We have been there, and we also noticed the volume of roadside trash.

[ChrissyRyan]

It saddens me to see so much trash along roads, in parking lots, in any neighborhood.

Why people think it is okay to litter is beyond my understanding.  They do it to get rid of it, but this way is not excusable.