I have never thrown trash on the ground in my life. I cannot imagine who was brought up to think that’s ok.
I only did it once when I was young and my uncle gave me the stare and told me to pick it up and put it in my pocket. That’s really all it took to teach me it was wrong amd have never littered since, at least not intentionally.
They’re about to get crushed?
Is it bad that I think like that all the time? I still do the right thing, but I’m worried that one day I’ll just see no change and get into the “fuck it” mindset.
In actual civilised countries, people do think like that, teach their kids to think like that, and call out people who don’t respect their environment.
It’s a societal problem at your end probably
This is why you need to focus on local change as the goal. By local I mean right there and then. You pick up some trash or you prevent your own from going on the ground, the change is right there in front of you: that section of ground, at that time, is clean.
If you do the small things with big changes in mind as the reason, it’s a recipe for exactly the kind of burnout you’re referring to.
There is change. It’s just small. But it’s 100% real and right there in front of you and it reliably follows from your action.
True. I teach my son that, too.
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I like to go the extra mile by washing and drying my trash before throwing it away. Paper products unfortunately don’t do well in the process and i have to retrieve the from the lint screen.
In Japan they don’t have public trash cans so if you eat a snack you just shove the wrapper in your pocket until you get home or wherever. You end up with a pocket filled with trash, ha
What else can you do?
I have a mint wrapper in my back pocket from three days ago, I’ve seen countless trash cans. This shit is getting thrown away when I wash em, become one with the trash.
You’re welcome.
Thank you
Pretty basic, really. City has trashcans everywhere, so one is bound to run into one eventually. It costs literally just as much effort to shove that wrapper into your pants pocket as it does to chuck onto the street.
Yes, if a) you were raised with such values? Common sense? Both? And b)if your city has a lot of thrash cans. I’m surrounded by a lack of both so the meme is accurate to the folks that keep trash in their pockets until they get to a trashcan.
The only public trash can in my neighborhood is at 7-Eleven. Thank god that mega corporate chain is taking their civic duty responsibility seriously because literally nobody else is. No other businesses are willing to do the work of maintaining a trash can, and apparently neither is the city.
Yeah, a public trash can is work. But in my opinion, it’s a worthwhile expenditure of time and effort. The service of being able to toss things in the trash is worth the collective price, IMO.
I like that last pocket on my backpack. Mesh pocket like the one for drink bottles, but a more of a flat pocket with no zipper, little tension band at the top. Great for that tissue or what have you.
My back right pocket has seen a lot of snotty tissues. I wash my jeans maybe twice a year.
There may be a smell that you are not aware of.
This could also be “people who put stray carts (trolleys for UKians) in the cart return even if they weren’t the one to use them”
I kind of interpret the image as he’s doing something pointless. Clearly, he can’t be holding that for real. And by that logic, meme implies that not littering is useless. Maybe an Atlas/Atlant meme would’ve worked better.
Kek, me with two pockets full of trash. Not all of my own even
If a street is full of trash I don’t bother. But if there’s a nice clean stretch with one bright piece of trash I’ll grab it.
It’s why cargo pants and shorts never go out of style.
They were never in style, they are a lifestyle.
