Obviously some people do! Do you?

Please respond to the scenarios with what you would usually do (just so I don't have to arse about with 'well sometimes I do this, but other times I do this' indecisive posters ;) )

I am a boy of justice and righteousness, therefore I do not litter. It's just plain lazy and besides: the trouble you get into for dropping litter isn't worth the luxury of not walking two feet to a bin. Even if no-ones around to catch you, litter is just plain unpleasant to look at and even one small piece of litter can totally ruin the perfect location.

And gum? Don't get me started on it... Is it really too much of a hassle to wrap it up and throw it away? Gum on the floor spoils everything. I'll stop at that for my own good.

I don't smoke but if I did I would put it in a bin - it's almost become socially acceptable to casually drop a cigaretee and ground it down to ash. Well, in some places anyway.

What about you, Aelia?

I never litter, I keep all my trash on me until I find a trashcan if there is none around. I just can't even imagine leaving a food wrapper on a bench or just tossing it on the ground and walking away. Don't know why I am this way, no particular reason I suppose, but I just truly don't litter.

I'd rather carry a wrapper in my pocket than leave it on the ground.. There's enough trash lying about.

Cigaretbutts are litter too right ? In that case i litter, yes. No empty cans, paper or other stuff though, that's a-social. But i wouldn't know where else to put my cigarette when i'm outside. You can't dump it in a trashcan, because you might set it on fire.

You can get fined here for that now btw.

I've been fined for everything in Holland. Chucking a cigarette out of a car window when driving, peeing on a perfectly pee-able object when drunk, even putting my dustbin out a day early. It's terrible.

But back to litter - in general, it depends on the size of the object and promiximity of a dustbin. If there's one within say, thirty yards, I'll always chuck whatever I have in there. If I have a small scrunched up piece of paper in my hand and there's no dustbin anywhere, chances are I'll chuck it in the bushes. But if I have, say, an empty two-pint bottle of coke, I won't just throw that into the undergrowth. In that case I'll always wait til I see a trash can.

Darn those pee-able objects just lying around begging to be peed on huh! Entrapment really! :D

My poll originally had options for 'do not smoke' and 'do not chew gum' but I forgot to add them back in when I added a new question - sorry about that ;) .

I know what you mean about it being acceptable to drop butts about, Jaradu - I have a friend who smokes (we have a break in lectures and she's like wanna go for a smoke? Mmmm nothing better :rolleyes: ;) ), and she always just drops it on the ground and steps on it when she's done. Icky.

While I don't 'litter' (ie: I put my garbage in the designated bins), I can appreciate the irony in the fact that the state does my littering for me. All that garbage has to get dumped somewhere eventually... Which leads on to the next question: do you recycle? [img]smile.gif[/img]

And when I was a regular smoker I used to flick my butts wherever was convenient [img]smile.gif[/img]

I don't litter. Wrappers are carried in the pocket until a appropiate waste storage facility (trash can) has been spotted.

I have to say, I honestly don't litter and it pains me to see trash/rubbish lying in the streets, on the grass on highways, outsides stores, anywhere in fact. I in fact hate it very much, but apparently I still don't have enough incentive to pick up the messes others have made, and I believe this is something I should overcome. Unfortunatly I also have OCD, and I think i'll catch any disease, virus if I perform a certain act, which is another reason why I don't touch other peoples messes, I just don't know where it's been.

-Im thinking i'll strap on a rubber suit, rubber gloves, and a respirator, get me those nice sticks with spikes on the end and go on a trash picking up spree. And then afterwards take 5 showers one every hour just to be careful.

I'm health crazy, i'm 16, don't eat any type of candy whats so ever. When I come home from school i'm eating 3 - 4 bananas, 2 tomatoes, and some grapes to fill my stomach [img]smile.gif[/img] . Another OCD phenomenon. I can't even take cigarrette smoke (not a bad thing) but my parents seem to get pissed when my windows are open when its 32 degrees outside... with a fan on and door shut. (I'm laughing so hard right now.)

Sorry for a post after another, but I wanted to point out an interesting "no-litter" law. My friend use to live in Singapore, and apparently its illegal to chew gum there since people seem to like to place their chewed up rubber where ever they pleased when they were done with it. Anyone know any other interesting such laws?

My littering is usually minimal but depends on the size of the object and proximity of nearest bin. If it's anything bigger than, say, a chewing gum wrapper I'll always take it with me. Otherwise I might chuck it away slyly if there's no bin in sight. Chewing gum and apple cores I usually throw in a bush if there's no bin. I won't stick gum under tables etc. cos that's damn annoying. If I chuck something in the direction of the waste paper basket and miss at home I'll probably be too lazy to pick it up straight away but generally tidy it up later :D Don't smoke, smoking is for dummies and teenagers trying to look cool although I can understand an occasional puff on the green when someone is feeling really down :D

[ 05-16-2004, 06:35 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

For some reason I can't open the poll window to vote :(

Littering is wrong.

When I see people drop things in the street I honestly want to pick the litter up and shove it down their throats.

We all have to live in this world, and people that don't respect the environment (both on a global and a local scale) make my blood boil.

I don't litter, always throw it in the dustbine ala shooting basketball method. anyway, it's an offense to litter anyway. you can be fine up to $100 if you are caught.

Sometimes I litter, not often though

My sentiment exactly.
If you can't care for the world you live in, what does that say about you, as a person? A lot.

Sure, but you're not looking after your world by putting garbage in a garbage bin. It still ultimately gets dumped in a landfill. But out of sight out of mind, right?

Or at least somewhere where it doesn't get stuck to my shoe or where my dog can't eat it. ;)

No, I don't litter. I get really angry at people at uni when they eat lunch, and then just leave their trash on the table when the trash can is 2 metres away. And they even walk past it on the way back to class... Or people throwing the trash into the can but missing, and then just leaving it on the floor... [img]graemlins/1pissed.gif[/img]

Or at least somewhere where it doesn't get stuck to my shoe or where my dog can't eat it. ;)

No, I don't litter. I get really angry at people at uni when they eat lunch, and then just leave their trash on the table when the trash can is 2 metres away. And they even walk past it on the way back to class... Or people throwing the trash into the can but missing, and then just leaving it on the floor... [img]graemlins/1pissed.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]Yes I agree, I hate that! I can't believe people actually can throw their rubbish 'near' a bin but it not go in and not feel a huge twinge of conscience that makes them pick it up again [img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img]

Well, some rubbish obviously gets recycled, Hiero ;) . What is your alternative to landfills?

Why, frolicking naked in the wildnerness, picking berries and hunting deer of course ;) What else is there? [img]smile.gif[/img]

Seriously though. The alternative to landfills is changing our 'throwaway' culture. I think there needs to be a fundamental shift in our 'consumer' society's use-once-and-abandone philosophy. Instead of having supermarket shelves full of individually-packaged products whose packages are destined for the landfill after they have been used, simply sell durable, re-usable containers and let customers 'refill' at their leisure. This would be plausible for many different landfill-fodder products. Washing powder, soap, milk, bread, you name it, even meat and vegetables (hell, it's how they did it in the old days. Go to market with your basket, pick up your goods, take em home). Just little changes in general social lifestyle to minimize all the decadent waste that goes on these days.

Right now I think 'The West' has convenience-disease. And I don't think I'm being excessively prophetic when I say this illness is going to get really terminal in the next decade or two.

[ 05-18-2004, 06:42 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]

^^^^^

Word.

Well acording to the poll looks like alot of clean people nice to see. The only thing I may be guilty to is the gum on the ground I just wait for a bird to get it. Or the bear that has been in to my garbage the last two nights. And yes bears litter. ;)

I am not a litter bug, I don't like harming the natural environment, we need the environment to survive.

the only littering I do, is the cigeratte butts, everything else I pretty much put in a trash bin, there are a few times I have not, but most of the time, I try and keep things cleaned up

Hmm Am just a social smoker so usually I throw it in an ashtray... well it depends on the place also.

In general, I want the world to be a clean place so there. I won't litter as much as possible... [img]smile.gif[/img]

I never littler. I hate to see other people doing it so I don`t do that myslef.