Said here before, I clean the local woods on every trip. I can tell where I haven’t been for awhile by the trash.
It’s made a serious impact! Ya know, the whole “broken windows” thing? Most of the crap is from 3 things:
People chunking beer cans. I can understand (without condoning) that they’re likely underage and don’t want to get busted.
Snack wrappers. Again, likely kids given the waste I find. That’s on the parents.
Crap that floated down from higher ground. People see trash and assume it was chunked on purpose. Nope. Tons of it simply flooded down from spilled trash cans, fell out of the car when exiting, shit like that.
We ALL litter, believe that. No matter how hard we try our waste gets away from us. Hell, I’ve found my own beer cozies on various trails, 4 times in the last year. I find my own crap at our camp every trip. “How the fuck did I drop that?!” Oops. Pick up more than you can possibly lose. That’s all a man can do.
LOL, my kid’s when boating, “No daddy! Don’t go mess with that!” Now? They’re actively hunting trash and fishing tackle. Hell, my wife was the same way and now makes us turn around for fishing bobbers.
I pick up litter
When there’s litter, people don’t think much about adding to it, so I just pick things up so that people are less inclined to lazily drop their shit
Said here before, I clean the local woods on every trip. I can tell where I haven’t been for awhile by the trash.
It’s made a serious impact! Ya know, the whole “broken windows” thing? Most of the crap is from 3 things:
We ALL litter, believe that. No matter how hard we try our waste gets away from us. Hell, I’ve found my own beer cozies on various trails, 4 times in the last year. I find my own crap at our camp every trip. “How the fuck did I drop that?!” Oops. Pick up more than you can possibly lose. That’s all a man can do.
LOL, my kid’s when boating, “No daddy! Don’t go mess with that!” Now? They’re actively hunting trash and fishing tackle. Hell, my wife was the same way and now makes us turn around for fishing bobbers.
Same! I keep the street clean and it shows because it looks so nice. People really like that but don’t generally notice. Le sigh.