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[Porcelain]

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@cotton4me wrote:

Interesting that litter has been mentioned.  That’s also one of my pet peeves.  I take regular walks in nature parks and the amount of trash I find is unbelievable.  I began carrying trash bags and gloves so I can pick it up when I see it.  It’s also amazing how much stuff washes up from the creek when it rains.  One time I picked up over 200 plastic water bottles along with other sundry stuff.  I can only imagine how much makes its way to the rivers and oceans. 

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I do that too! One day I was walking on our greenway and I wanted to pick up some trash but it was just too groady. So now I take my latex gloves with me and I'm not afraid to pick up most items and throw them out.

[Porcelain]

Earth Day is the Original Mother's Day. Without a clean and healthy planet to live on and seas to swim in, we have noplace else to go. Just like we only get one life, we only get one Earth. What we do and don't do matters.

[Cakers3]

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@skatting44 wrote:

 For me, lets talk abt picking up trash , what does anything else mean when  all the places we go are trashed up. People don't clean up anything  or reccycle, just throw away . Some places have  big landfills , our oceans are garbage pits, space gets discarded   space craft . I've known people  all into  " saving the environment " but do nothing to tackle  the mounting trash issues  and the companies that profit on putting cities trash on garbage barges in the ocean.

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@skatting44   ^^^THIS!!!

[Porcelain]

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@skatting44 wrote:

 For me, lets talk abt picking up trash , what does anything else mean when  all the places we go are trashed up. People don't clean up anything  or reccycle, just throw away . Some places have  big landfills , our oceans are garbage pits, space gets discarded   space craft . I've known people  all into  " saving the environment " but do nothing to tackle  the mounting trash issues  and the companies that profit on putting cities trash on garbage barges in the ocean.

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Well to be fair, I've also known people who don't care at all about the environment who also refuse to clean up anything and who don't recycle. Their excuse is that they don't care about it.

[chickenbutt]

Littering has always bothered me.   Years ago I was in my car with a friend and as we drove down some street he threw trash out of the window!  I stopped and was like WTH???   We picked it up and I hope he 'got' that littering is bad but, initially, he was hacked off at me for calling him on it. 

This friend was a fair amount younger than I and I bring that up because it seems they don't teach kids anymore to not litter, like they did when I was a kid.

There is an elementary school near me.   At any given time you can find school papers, food/drink containers, etc, flying around in the wind.  They have trash cans all around the school but I guess they just don't care.

My lot is an inverted corner lot.  I live on a small 'U' shaped street and am in one of those elbows of the 'U' so it seems like the trash blows into my yard as it's final stopping place.   Oddly, it even blows into my side and back yards, over the 6' fence.  it is a wind-prone area.

It gets old and I wish they didn't stop telling kids not to litter.  I've actually seen kids walking down the middle of my street dropping litter wherever they happen to be - in the middle of the street, or in other peoples' yards, etc.   It's not even in the thought process to do something differently.