Why do people litter? candy wrappers, cigarette butts, soda cans, chewed gum, highway dumping, etc.?

Question

Why do people litter? candy wrappers, cigarette butts, soda cans, chewed gum, highway dumping, etc.?

Answer 1

I don't know why people do this.  This is very offensive to me and I am teaching my children not to litter too as I think this is the way to make a change.

Answer 2

I just asked a similar question as all of last week I have been picking up all the litter in my suburb.

Answer 3

I asked myself that as I passed a car battery thrown onto the side of a field just now. I think that there is a new low in civility due to very poor parenting. Too many people are not parenting their children and teaching them not to do that. I salute Bette Midler who has a campaign to clean up New York and she has done very well.  The only solution I see is to montiro and enforce no litter laws but that takes time away from the police who are stopping people killing each other. These are not good times in America

Answer 4

it gives people something to do that get in trouble and are awarded community service.

Answer 5

laziness, no morales, liberals...

Answer 6

because they don't have to clean it up them  selves its pure laziness,

      and some people just like doing it.

Answer 7

my opinion is because they don't care if the world dies and turns into a black hole.

Answer 8

laziness

Answer 9

Good question ,it's all bad but  worst culprits of all in my opinion all are the uncivilized,nasty folks that leave their kid's dirty diapers out in parking lots of stores and malls. I wish there was someway surveillance cameras could get these people's driver's license plate numbers and track them down and start fineing them big time.

Answer 10

zig,  laziness, no morales, conservatives...

maybe because their mommy didn't teach them very well.

maybe because they think someone else should pay their way.

Answer 11

and Xmas trees!  Don't forget that.  There are two or three just on the highway to get to the freeway.  Funny that they are just too damm lazy to dispose of it properly makes me wonder if they know what recycling is!? Even if we all did a little bit every time we left our homes, it would take a long time to get to a non-cluttered / littered state.

Answer 12

PEOPLE ARE LAZY!

and

they dont realize what happens to it when they do that and how it ruins the enviroment/the planet/the earth/nature.

they also may not care about the enviroment/the planet/the earth/nature.

they also may think that enviroment/the planet/the earth/nature cant be destoryed or if it is destroyed it wont effect us the "inferior humans that cant get extinct cuz we arent animals" YEA RIGHT! we are ANIMALS PEOPLE! YOU GOTTA REALIZE THAT!

Answer 13

They're careless and lazy.  Simply put.  Some do it to be a******s.