Do you throw stuff on the ground if no one is looking?

Question

Only if it's really small? (cigarette butt, gum wrapper)

Depending upon whether it's biodegradable matter?

(Apple core, tomato slice you didn't want on your sandwich?)

If it's somewhere where some will be sure to pick up after you(like in the park)

Or somewhere that no one ever goes (you are driving across southern utah desert and you shoot your McDonald's bag out the window)

Do you think that there is too much trash on the ground, and if so, does it bother you?

It bothers me a lot to see so much rubbish on the ground, but I think that I am the only one that it bothers.

Answer 1

I would only throw something natural like an apple core, which is like throwing a leaf on the ground.  Anything else is trash and should be put in a trash can.  Yes, there is too much trash on the ground.  I saw somebody throw paper onto the subway tracks recently and had the strong urge to shove them onto the tracks as well.

Answer 2

This is one of my biggest pet peeves!!  I cannot stand to see people throw trash of any kind on the ground!!! What's worse is when someone throws there trash on the ground and there's a trash can like 4 feet away!!! I hate it when you're in a really beautiful place and you look around only to see trash on the ground!!  Even if I rolled down my car window and something flew out I would turn back just to pick it up!!!

Answer 3

yae sometimes

Answer 4

Never. Not if no one is around. Not is someone will pick up later. Not if it's biodegradable. Never.

Answer 5

No!!! I think about the person who has to pick up after me, as I work for my local council, and these guys are the poorest paid workers in England, and yet they do an awful job. We had one poor guy in the other day, he had a gash down his arm that was 7'' long, and required 6 stitches, simply because some idiot threw a broken bottle into the undergrowth he was clearing rubbish from. If only people gave a thought for these guy's, and also the animals who suffer too, through man's selfishness. A dead fox was found the other day, with plastic from a six pack wrapped around it's neck, that kind of thing is almost a daily occurance.

Answer 6

Yep you caught me. Yes I do on some occasion throw stuff on the ground when done. Not always and not stuff that real big. I never toss and garbage out the window of a car driving. But why am I explaining myself a litterer is a litterer. Yes I would say it bothers me especially if I see garbage on the ground when a can is near by. But there's not always a can around lots of times too.

Answer 7

If it's biodegradable and the place I am throwing it is somewhere I know it won't be (or become) an eyesore, then yes, but otherwise no. I am part of a cleanup organisation so I am very careful about this now...but even before that, I have not done that since ...I don't know...maybe when I was a pre-teen and didn't care about such things as litter.

You are not the only one that it bothers...did you know there is a litterproject? It's something global...you can join...and you pledge to pick up one piece of litter a day...I found it in a book called "500 ways to change the world." I thought it was a cool idea, but i have only just looked up the site. Although...you know you will be picking up other people's litter...can't avoid that...but if it bothers you to see the litter...at least you can feel better by having done something about it. :)

Answer 8

Littering is no different from brazenly expelling gas in public.

Not cool.

(Unless you're talking about sunflower seed shells, which I spit all over the place when coaching my sons' Little League teams...)

Answer 9

I throw things like apple cores and watermelon rinds. When I do though, I make sure that they are somewhere that will not be seen or make the place look junky. For example, I don't throw them beside a path in a park, I would through them in the forest in the country. Most of the time, it all goes in the garbage (or my personal composter when applicable!).

Answer 10

Apple cores, banana peels, chicken bones are all biodegradable or food for wild life and don't count.

Answer 11

Integrity means doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking.  I won't even toss a gum wrapper.  It vexes me to no end to see that people are so lazy that they can't walk 10 FEET to a trash can because it's just too far, so they toss their trash on the ground.  It's not an environmental thing with me..........I just hate lazy people!!! I see knuckleheads toss stuff out of their cars instead of just waiting until they get home to put it in the trash.  I'm sick of watching people flick their cigarette butts out the window to explode across my windshield. We have an over abundance on grass fires on highways that are caused by people that think the cigarette butt will make their car stink.  Guess what.........................IT ALREADY DOES STINK!!!!!!!! More than likely, the car came equipped with an ashtray, so use it!!! It's the law!!!! (he says, climbing down from the soapbox).

Answer 12

yea,i should stop.

Answer 13

In the immortal words of Woodsy Owl:

"Give a hoot, don't pollute

never be a dirty bird

in the city or in the woods

help keep America

looking good".

Hoot hoot!

Answer 14

No, except for spitting my gum out.  It's a bad habit that I'm trying to stop because I know that gum takes a long time to break down.  I try not to spit it in high areas of foot traffic though.

Answer 15

YES!!!! it really bothers me your not the only one i NEVER throw out rubbish i always find the nearest bin because you need to think about animals choking on them,the environment that not going to be very healthy,global warning,that's getting very bad every second.More people need to throw them into the bin or the recycling bin.

Answer 16

Never!!!

Apple cores, tomato slices, etc, sure! they are natural and maybe a bird or wild animal can eat it.

Sometimes I do get sick of picking up after people, but I cant just NOT do it because I feel guilty for Mother Earth!

I wish we had some sort of enviromental police, where I could pull over and ticket every s****.that throws out their cigg butts!

Answer 17

Never!