Do you litter?

[Nightcloak]

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?

[Vaskez]

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 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

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

[Epona]

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.

[Kakero]

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.

[Lord]

Sometimes I litter, not often though

[Nanobyte]

Originally posted by Epona: 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.

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.

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by Nanobyte: 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?

[Spelca]

Originally posted by The Hierophant: 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]

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by Spelca: quote: Originally posted by The Hierophant: 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] [/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?

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by Aelia Jusa: 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 ]