People Littering Their Used Masks & Gloves - Page 3

pigletsmom · ‎11-21-2011

You can add this to the list of reasons they really didn't want to tell people to wear masks. People already don't wear them right and they touch their faces a bunch while they do, then they toss them on the ground, toss them on a counter when they get home and then pick them up again.No point in wearing a mask if you aren't going to do it right.

Financialgrl · ‎03-13-2010

I've seen the same thing - but I realized that at least our Walmart has a trash can fastened to the bar where the carts are to remove the gloves when they return their carts.

I saw a pile of gloves on the ground and realized that the last two days here in N. VA it was so windy here the trash can got upended - I felt bad for the worker trying to round them up but at least he was wearing a mask/gloves and had a rolling trash can with a black trash can liner and one of those picker upper/grabber things (or in my case I have one I use to get things off the higher shelves

DustRose · ‎03-10-2010

Not surprised

dex · ‎03-09-2010

@gardenman @That is disgusting.I am Canadian and can honestly say I never saw much trash on the streets and highways until we moved to the USA.Once while my dh was pumping gas I saw a couple of young people throw their fast food wrappers on the ground even though there were garbage cans available.I was so angry that I asked them why they didn't love their country and proceeded to pick up the garbage.They apologized and helped me.I don't understand how a person can put their hand on their heart with trash on the ground...sorry but trashing the environment is my pet peeve.

MorningLover · ‎10-04-2015

The spreading coronavirus pandemic is leading to an outbreak of another kind: pollution.

Protective gloves, masks and disinfecting wipes are frequently showing up on the ground instead of in trash bins. It's not only unsightly it potentially poses problems for the environment, for wastewater treatment plants — and, at least remotely, provides a possible pathway to infecting others with the COVID-19 virus.

A discarded rubber glove sits on a storm drain grate in the parking lot of the Kroger supermarket on Union Lake Road in Commerce Township in this March 26, 2019 photo

Discarded rubber gloves -- two different kinds -- are strewn on the pavement of the Kroger supermarket parking lot on Union Lake Road in Commerce Township, Michigan. South Jersey towns are having the very same issue.

A pair of discarded rubber gloves lies on the pavement of the Walmart Supercenter parking lot on North Pontiac Trail in Commerce Township, Michigan in this March 26, 2020 photo. South Jersey towns are having the same issue.

It seems to particularly be a problem outside of supermarkets and big-box retail stores, where patrons shop wearing gloves, then discard them in the parking lot, on the pavement.

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

@dex wrote:
@gardenman @That is disgusting.I am Canadian and can honestly say I never saw much trash on the streets and highways until we moved to the USA.Once while my dh was pumping gas I saw a couple of young people throw their fast food wrappers on the ground even though there were garbage cans available.I was so angry that I asked them why they didn't love their country and proceeded to pick up the garbage.They apologized and helped me.I don't understand how a person can put their hand on their heart with trash on the ground...sorry but trashing the environment is my pet peeve.

It's gotten worse here in recent years as local communities have started charging for trash pickup. Trash pickup used to be included in your property taxes, but in the last twenty years or so the local communities have started to make you pay separately by either buying trash stickers to put on your trash, or buying special trash bags sold only by the township. This has vastly increased the amount of littering and illegal dumping. I have to buy a $1.50 green sticker for my trash and it can't weigh more than 20 lbs for every sticker, so lots of people just toss their trash out their car windows rather than pay to dispose of it.

Our local Walmart has trash cans out and if you sit in the parking lot for ten minutes you'll see people bringing bags of trash and dumping them in those trash cans instead of paying to get rid of it. People will sit in their cars and take things out of the packaging and then throw the packaging in the Walmart trash cans. It's ridiculous. My front yard is only about 40 feet wide, so it's not a vast acreage, but it gets tons of trash dumped on it as do my neighbors. It's just crazy.

The back roads around here get all kinds of large stuff dumped on them. Furniture, TV's, appliances, all of which you have to pay a fair amount to get hauled away, just end up getting dumped on someone else's land for them to deal with. The communities have created a monster and won't give up the trash revenue to fix it. SImply including trash pickup in your taxes with no extra fee would solve much of the problem, but they like that revenue and won't give it up.

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lovescats · ‎03-10-2010

@dex wrote:
That is disgusting.I am Canadian and can honestly say I never saw much trash on the streets and highways until we moved to the USA.Once while my dh was pumping gas I saw a couple of young people throw their fast food wrappers on the ground even though there were garbage cans available.I was so angry that I asked them why they didn't love their country and proceeded to pick up the garbage.They apologized and helped me.I don't understand how a person can put their hand on their heart with trash on the ground...sorry but trashing the environment is my pet peeve.

my father used to tell me years ago that you would never see all the trash you see on the streets you see here if you went to Canada. I don't know why it isn't taught in schools not to litter. kids walk back and forth to school eating candy etc and let the wrappers just fly out of their hands.