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Re: Litter
« Reply #50 on: January 22, 2021, 01:35:51 PM »
i had the idea of inventing a small trash compactor for your car. it would get emptied whenever you got your oil changed.

No silly, the trash doesn't need to get emptied.  It stays in your car to power the flux capacitor.

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« Reply #51 on: January 22, 2021, 05:32:59 PM »
When I worked in the emergency room we had a few people get in accidents from trash rolling under the brake pedal.

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« Reply #52 on: January 23, 2021, 07:16:26 AM »
I've got 3 of those (5, 3, & 8 months).  The van still manages to stay clean.
It mostly comes down to whether or not a clean car is important to you.  I really don't care what the outside of my car looks like as long as it's easy to get in/out without having to navigate through a pile of junk on the floor.

I decided a long time ago that I don't like sitting in a filthy car with my clean clothes. I ride with someone occasionally (pre-COVID) and the seat is like the bottom of a garbage can b/c the trash is everywhere. Yuck.

I don't make a big effort to keep our cars clean. I vacuum them 3-4 times per year, clear out trash (receipts, paper sacks, junk mail, wrappers) every time I exit the car. I wash them quarterly at least. And wipe down the inside with plastic/leather preservative at least once in the spring, and the fall. Preferably monthly but it depends on how busy life is and how motivated I am. Sometimes do it to help extend my enthusiasm about my aging car. Keeps me off the car lots. ;)

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« Reply #53 on: January 27, 2021, 12:21:13 PM »
What are people doing in there cars that make them so messy?
For me, parking my car is a trigger to grab anything that doesn't belong in my car.  If I'm at work, a store, or a gas station, I grab all of my trash and put it in the nearest trash can.  If I'm at home, I grab everything (trash, gym bag, water bottle, laptop, etc).

Hauling smelly, drooling, shedding, animals Is one way my car remains dirty.

I have actual dirt in my the back of my SUV because I do heavy gardening, things are loaded in buckets, the buckets tip over, etc.

One landlord tip is check the car interior of tenant applicants to see how they keep their car. It might be a clue as to how they will keep property.

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« Reply #54 on: January 27, 2021, 12:30:00 PM »
One thing I have learned from a recent thread on Nextdoor is that complaining about litter downtown is not OK if one blames  homeless people.

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I didn’t write this post on Nextdoor  but I am quite aware of the litter bugs that our homeless population is downtown. I worked  downtown and I would see the church vans come in from the county to set up their feeding stations. After they handed out their prepackaged foods, they would roll up their operation and driveOff. The homeless recipients of all of this packaged food spread the packages over a two block area.

And then, there is the regular stationary feeding programs of churches in my area. I picked up two perfectly package lunches from a bench and took them home and we ate them for lunch. They had been freshly handed out that day as part of a particular church feeding program.

There’s no point in talking about these littering activities because the homeless are not to be blamed for anything According to many voices on Nextdoor. Okey-dokey.
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« Reply #55 on: January 27, 2021, 08:07:33 PM »
B/c of this litter thread, I'm noticing more litter than ever before... I must have been blind to it.

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« Reply #56 on: January 27, 2021, 09:11:16 PM »
B/c of this litter thread, I'm noticing more litter than ever before... I must have been blind to it.
We got some fresh snow the other day so it's all gone now... Spring is going to be gross though.

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« Reply #57 on: March 05, 2021, 10:13:16 AM »
B/c of this litter thread, I'm noticing more litter than ever before... I must have been blind to it.

Me too.   If you really look, there's an astounding amount of trash where I live.  I think I was happier when I was blind to it.

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« Reply #58 on: March 05, 2021, 10:16:14 AM »
we were standing in the vaccine line yesterday and a guy flicked his cigarette butt out into the parking lot. how do we convince people not to do things like that?

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« Reply #59 on: March 05, 2021, 11:37:19 AM »
we were standing in the vaccine line yesterday and a guy flicked his cigarette butt out into the parking lot. how do we convince people not to do things like that?

Too bad his cigarette didn't catch his mask on fire.    /s

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« Reply #60 on: March 05, 2021, 11:50:17 AM »
we were standing in the vaccine line yesterday and a guy flicked his cigarette butt out into the parking lot. how do we convince people not to do things like that?

Too bad his cigarette didn't catch his mask on fire.    /s

he wasn't wearing a mask

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« Reply #61 on: March 05, 2021, 12:28:11 PM »
we were standing in the vaccine line yesterday and a guy flicked his cigarette butt out into the parking lot. how do we convince people not to do things like that?

How did this behaviour even get coded as acceptable in the first place??? Smokers just do this so casually, often right in front of a building entrance. What other case can people think of where it's just so acceptable to throw garbage on the ground like that? Especially garbage that's so poisonous??? How was that ever okay?

Is it because throwing butts in the garbage is a such a fire hazard?

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« Reply #62 on: March 05, 2021, 02:04:11 PM »
In my neighborhood, I’ve noticed that there is a lot of litter after trash day. It isn’t people throwing stuff out of windows, it’s trash blowing out of the trash truck or fluttering out while the cab is being dumped, etc. I make it a practice to police my curb and those for my surrounding neighbors if I see anything, but if it blows away before I get to it not much I can do.

Hopefully that brings back a little faith in your fellow man.

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« Reply #63 on: March 05, 2021, 02:05:59 PM »
we were standing in the vaccine line yesterday and a guy flicked his cigarette butt out into the parking lot. how do we convince people not to do things like that?

How did this behaviour even get coded as acceptable in the first place??? Smokers just do this so casually, often right in front of a building entrance. What other case can people think of where it's just so acceptable to throw garbage on the ground like that? Especially garbage that's so poisonous??? How was that ever okay?

Is it because throwing butts in the garbage is a such a fire hazard?

Originally, every part of a cigarette would decompose.  There were no foam/plastic filters until around 1950, so the cigarette was just tobacco leaf and paper.  Discarding a cigarette wouldn't really have been a problem at that point . . . and I expect that this was such a common place habit that when non-biodegradable filters started to become a thing there was already a lot of behavioral momentum that kept the practice going on.

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« Reply #64 on: March 05, 2021, 02:08:25 PM »
Filthy cars are the worst. Doesn't have to be perfectly detailed but trash free and vacuumed goes a long, long way.

I've flipped many cars over the years (as in reselling). I mean like a garbage can of trash from small car interiors. Our teen and I drove home from another city in teen's first car years ago. Was so cheap. And so filthy. I didn't want to touch anything. Wished I wore gloves bad and put a blanket over the seats bad. It cleaned up pretty good but was a gross out fest to start. One truck I purchased to flip was so bad I stopped on the way home just to empty the interior of food garbage. Took the seat out and hosed out the interior literally. Tire brush and dawn soap on everything but the dash including the cloth seats.

When someone expresses interest in a newer car I always suggest that they detail the car or pay to have it detailed. Sometimes makes a car feel new again and they are happy to own it again.

I wonder what their houses look like inside?  As the saying goes, "How you do something is how you do everything."

There is this meme. Holds true for my household; my wife’s car is a pigsty but she keeps the house very clean. I have a lower standard of cleanliness in the house, but my car is always cleanish (might be dirty but zero trash, etc). 


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« Reply #65 on: March 05, 2021, 02:25:23 PM »
I'm curious how much traveling people here have done.  The idea of littering being a problem doesn't seem to even be much of a concept in a lot of countries.  I definitely wish people everywhere would be more responsible about trash, but in my experience the US is pretty clean relatively. 

Tons of people throw garbage out their car windows in front of my house.  The used baby diaper that then went through a heavy rain storm was particularly memorable.  It annoys me, but definitely not the worst problem.  I'd clean up all kinds of litter if people would slow the F down and not drive like they were out for blood. 

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« Reply #66 on: March 05, 2021, 03:16:51 PM »
The inside of my vehicle sometimes gets a little trashy precisely because I never throw anything out the window. Cleaning it from time to time is a small price to pay for not contributing to trash everywhere else.

Considering that there are trash cans at your home, at the gas station, at the car wash, at most places of business it really boils down to just not giving a shit about littering. Whenever I have some bit of trash (empty cup, etc.) n my vehicle it immediately gets deposited in the nearest trash wherever I happen to stop next. Never out the window.

I felt like a complete asshole the other day when I rolled down my windows and one of the cheap flimsy masks got sucked out the window. I was not in a place where it was safe to stop and go get it so to pay back mother earth I went and collected some litter around my neighborhood the next day.

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« Reply #67 on: March 05, 2021, 06:31:14 PM »
we were standing in the vaccine line yesterday and a guy flicked his cigarette butt out into the parking lot. how do we convince people not to do things like that?

How did this behaviour even get coded as acceptable in the first place??? Smokers just do this so casually, often right in front of a building entrance. What other case can people think of where it's just so acceptable to throw garbage on the ground like that? Especially garbage that's so poisonous??? How was that ever okay?

Is it because throwing butts in the garbage is a such a fire hazard?

Originally, every part of a cigarette would decompose.  There were no foam/plastic filters until around 1950, so the cigarette was just tobacco leaf and paper.  Discarding a cigarette wouldn't really have been a problem at that point . . . and I expect that this was such a common place habit that when non-biodegradable filters started to become a thing there was already a lot of behavioral momentum that kept the practice going on.

Yeah, but that was what, like 60 years ago?  Most smokers I see have only known the modern filters

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« Reply #68 on: March 06, 2021, 09:44:09 AM »
Speaking of smoking without filters, do people still roll their own joints?   Or do they come prepackaged like cigarettes now that they're legal?    I don't remember much of a 'butt' left over after smoking one though...

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« Reply #69 on: March 06, 2021, 10:28:16 AM »
Speaking of smoking without filters, do people still roll their own joints?   Or do they come prepackaged like cigarettes now that they're legal?    I don't remember much of a 'butt' left over after smoking one though...

People absolutely still roll their own joints. The pre-filled pot cigarettes are expensive, also a lot of people grow their own.

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« Reply #70 on: March 06, 2021, 10:34:38 AM »
Speaking of smoking without filters, do people still roll their own joints?   Or do they come prepackaged like cigarettes now that they're legal?    I don't remember much of a 'butt' left over after smoking one though...

People absolutely still roll their own joints. The pre-filled pot cigarettes are expensive, also a lot of people grow their own.

I remember making blunts when I was younger. Haven't had pot in years though, so I don't know what the kids are doing now. I don't like the smell but maybe I will try the edibles next time I go to a legal state. That would make picking up litter a lot more fun.