Do you litter?

[*~SilenT~*]

I just wanted to no who liters and who don't, but being Pagan and all i try not to, im not saying im a tree huger, it's just arnt we sa'spost to keep mother earth clean? i hope you no what im saying

[Gwion]

I drink 1.5 liters of water a day whether I workout or not.

> im a tree huger<

Well, Woody, I don't wanna brag, but...ok, it was the entdraughts. Hoom-hoon.

[Silver_Alhena]

Nope, I hate litter, and I hate seeing people just dropping their rubbish.

[Eeluna]

I absolutely depise littering and think that people who litter have no feeling of respect or responsibility towards the Earth, others or even themselves. Littering is a thoughtless, selfish act that harms the enviroment and marrs the beauty of this world.

I'm not talking about biodegradable stuff like banana peels, nut shells and apple cores which is helpful to the enviroment. I'm referring to cans, bottles, plastic, etc.--stuff that lays there for years or even centuries until someone picks it up and disposes of it properly.

[Radocs]

Never.

[stormyray]

I try not to and everytime we go for a walk or down to the river a trash bag always goes with us and we pick up other peoples trash. It is amazing how people throw things in the river and swear they dissaper forever... grrrrr

[shnen]

I never litter, and sometimes pick stuff up, but I am scared of where its been to do it all the time, besides, the raccoons and skunks and cats do the littering enough around here!

and I try to drink 1 liter of water a day... ;)

[MammaStar]

Nope. I don't. My car is proof of that. If I don't have a garbage can nearby, I hold onto it and sometimes forget to toss it once I get out of the car. :lol:

If it's biodegradable, like a snack I've brought on a hike, then I don't have any problem with tossing a peel or shell on the ground. I know it won't hurt.

[flar7]

wow. wow. Almost everyone litters. No one recycles one hundred
percent of their waste. Does it make it more ok that you give
your trash to someone else to litter with? It seemed black or white
to me. I voted yes. the only one so far. I wish I didnt. I wish I
had the will and the energy to recycle all my plastics and paper,
to compost all my organic material, but I dont. sorry.:rolleyes:

[Gwion]

In fact, I pick up other people's litter. Not because I'm into that sort of thing, quite the contrary; but I know that if I don't, nobody will. Maybe it's a Virgo thing. And I recycle everything I can. Halloweens' jack-o-lantern is in the garden gradually becoming mulch in a wonderfully gothic way. What is filling up the landfills are disposable diapers. What ruins just about every national park or beach are the millions of cigarette butts, flicked away, often still burning, by the socially incontinent.

[flar7]

I guess it depends on what one considers littering.....
as humans we pollute our enviroment, we manufacture things that
cant be re-absorbed by the planet. We purchase goods that
are made my corporations that are unfriendly to the enviroment,
we drive cars, we have electricity, etc. etc.

If you mean, "do you throw down a candy wrapper?" thats different.


I watched a special on a man dedicated to recycling, and he was
good, but still he admitted that no one can "not litter" we just
make too much stuff. His weekly trash would fit in a coffe can.
Was very cool, but a ton of work and advanced planning.

[Rubi Waters]

I try not too....but I'm not 100 percent perfect......but my car is fact that i hold onto stuff and forget to throw it away later!!!! :)

[Psyche Ague]

I'm a tree hugger!!!

*hugs her favorite oak tree*

[Flar's Freyja]

Originally posted by flar7
wow. wow. Almost everyone litters. No one recycles one hundred
percent of their waste. Does it make it more ok that you give
your trash to someone else to litter with? It seemed black or white
to me. I voted yes. the only one so far. I wish I didnt. I wish I
had the will and the energy to recycle all my plastics and paper,
to compost all my organic material, but I dont. sorry.:rolleyes:

He is NOT that bad, believe me, I'd kick his butt. He litters in his car and sometimes it even gets into the trash bag..........

I answered "I really try not to" because I'm really into this honesty thing lately. I can not say that I am 100 percent perfect but I do my best. I even wrapped a piece of gum and put it in my coat pocket recently............

[Psyche Ague]

By the way, I really DO recycle EVERYTHING. I live in a dorm and there are separate bins for paper, comingled, and regular trash. It's right outside my door. It's VERY easy to recycle everything. Some people just don't want to put any effort out at all. *shrug* I guess it depends on how important the Earth is to you...

Every little bit helps.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Ick..No. It's a disgusting habit. I hate walking home from school and seeing all this litter on the way. If I carried a bag with me (rather than just taking my books...) I'd probably make an effort to pick some of it up as well. :sick:

[Saphra]

I voted yes, but not all the time, because I do throw my cigarette butts out the window (they make the car really stink like smoke if you don't), but I don't litter the streets with garbage, I even pick up garbage when i take a walk or am at the hospital grounds. But I agree with Flar, everyone litters, the garbage dumps are proof of that, it may be all contained in one "neat" little space, but it is still littering. Does everyone just think we put our garbage out on the curb and it just magically dissapperas???

[Psyche Ague]

Yeah, that's true enough, Saphra. Point taken.

I had defined litter in the more "traditional" sense of the term. I don't think everyone thinks of their trash as litter, per se...

But it is.

[Aviendha]

I try not to litter. I yell at my husband when he throws bottles or cans out the window. I might throw a paper wraper out the window, but if you look on the floor of my car, you'll see paper wrappers all over the place. ;) You know what, I'd like to have one of those earth dombs...any one know what I'm talking about?? Earth dom? Earth ship? Anyway they are made from tires and soda cans and mud. They make the roof with a dip in the middle so that it will catch the rain and that is where your water comes from. (It has a purifier in it.) You cook outside in a solar powered oven. The whole house is run off of solar power, so your bills are like nothing and your not polluting...well, not nearly at all. Oh, and your water waste (your tolet waste, too.) go out into your garden! Isn't that nice? Ovously not your veg. or herb garden, but your flower garden. You put your food waste in the veg. and herb garden.

Love to have one! (Love to have my own house.)

[Cajime]

I really never litter, it's just not nice and pointless. I just hold on to my rubbish untill I find a bin no matter how far away the next bin is.

Everyone I know seems to litter so I often annoy them by shouting at them to pick there rubbish up and throw it away.

[Gwion]

where all the residents were very concerned with keeping the forest pristine. It was the "flat-lander" tourists who would come up and throw their garbage, (and lit cigarettes) all over the place.
I stopped to put out two roadside fires last year that were started this way in piles of leaves. Now I carry two fire extinguishers in the car. Last year thousands of acres of national forest were lost from fires ignited by discarded cigarettes. The world is not your ashtray, nicotine-suckers! Real Pagans and Witches don't defile the Goddess.

[Valnorran]

I don't litter because I get to live with its effects. The ditches up and down my road contain all sorts of neat and interesting rubbish. Most of it is the usual stuff, but every so often something new pops up. I've found boxes full of duck parts (wings and heads). Have no idea what that's about. The canal that bisects our property has become a universal recepticle. I've found the odd family pet in trash bags, butchered deer, major household appliances, furniture, and auto parts. Every so often a bit of porn gets tossed out the car, some of which blows onto my property for my children to find. But my absolute favorite is when people dump their left-overs on us. Boiled seafood is very popular around here. For reasons I've never figured out, people who live in town will have a crawfish/shrimp/crab boil and drive all the way out here to dump sacks full of the shells. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the fragrance of rotting marine life, but after all these years it has become an aroma to remind me of home. I wish I could get these people's license numbers so I could find out where they live and dump the remains of my next crawfish boil in their front yard. They also like to dump their live pets on us, even though the Humane Society is only two or three miles away. We've got something like a dozen cats around here, none of which were bought.

[WandererInGray]

Originally posted by Saphra
because I do throw my cigarette butts out the window (they make the car really stink like smoke if you don't)
:eyebrow: Um, I'm not trying to jump you, Saphra....but that's kind of an odd way to go about it. You don't want to mess up your own car so you throw your butts out the window?
If you clean out your ashtray (which is there for a reason) after you get home then your car won't smell as bad.

And like Gwion said...cigarette butts is probably one of the biggest litter problems in this country. Mainly because people can't see a problem with "throwing one little butt out the window"
There obviously is a problem with is as we had several forest fires start this summer because of people doing that, and it's not illegal to toss a butt out the window.

*smiles* Like I said, I'm not trying to jump you...I just spent a great many weekend mornings with my 4-H club cleaning up a stretch of road and 70% of what we picked up was cigarette butts and fast food wrappers. :rolleyes: Makes it kind of a hot button issue for me.

As far as the "no one can not litter" argument....there is to me a difference between trash and litter. Littering is defined as not putting trash in its "proper" place. Recycling is good and well worth the effort....but at least disposing properly of your trash is better than just throwing it down where you're standing and forgetting about it.

[Emaleth]

I voted I try not to. And it's not because I'm pagan, but because it's how I was raised. My parents always made a big deal of keeping the world clean and not littering.

However, I can't honestly say that I never, ever litter, cause I don't know. Not on purpose, that's for sure.

It's funny that I found this thread, you know. I just had a lesson about pollution and littering with junior high students:)

Blessed Be

[MidnightSun]

I never throw anything on the ground unless I know darn well it's biodegradable, and will sometimes pick things up to throw them out. I hate going to the park and finding all sorts of yuck all over, in such a beautiful area.

[flar7]

"Real Pagans and Witches don't defile the Goddess" can only be
your opinion gwion, as many pagans may see it differently. Not
all pagans are earth friendly and thats a fact. Just a point.

[Gwion]

>"Real Pagans and Witches don't defile the Goddess" can only be
your opinion gwion, as many pagans may see it differently.<

I guess I was referring to those Pagans and Witches whose traditions are nature-based.

[flar7]

;)

[spookykakooey]

So I have, but that was a long time ago, when I was too young to understand. I get so angry when I see litter on the ground, especially when it's right beside a trash can. Sigh, what a messy world we live in.

:(

kak.

[Chibi-Fallon]

I try not to. I don't do a whole lot of eating outside anyway, at least not stuff with wrappers. I can't remember the last time I littered, but I'm sure I have.

[Saphra]

Okay, I have to say something here..... I don't throw my cig butts out if it is dry outside, or I am near any forest, I'm not that dumb. I will use my ashtray if I have too. I also don't throw anything else out the window of my car. I love mother nature as much as the next person, so, just for you people, I will put my cigs out in the ashtray.
And yes, I am a nicotine-sucker, Gwion, but I'm trying to quit.
And I do understand all of your points. ~mumbles something about keeping some of her opinions to herself~

[FaeFollower]

I am unbelievably obsessive about littering. I hold onto my garbage if there is no can nearby. At school, I hold onto paper scraps so I can bring them home and recycle them. When my sister was in kindergarten, she would bring home bits of construction paper in her socks to recycle them. I guess its a family thing. :lol:

[pawnman]

No, but it has nothing to do with being pagan and everything to do with wanting my neighborhood to look nice.

[pawnman]

I voted yes, but not all the time, because I do throw my cigarette butts out the window (they make the car really stink like smoke if you don't), but I don't litter the streets with garbage, I even pick up garbage when i take a walk or am at the hospital grounds. But I agree with Flar, everyone litters, the garbage dumps are proof of that, it may be all contained in one "neat" little space, but it is still littering. Does everyone just think we put our garbage out on the curb and it just magically dissapperas???

You know what really makes your car smell like smoke? Smoking in the car.

[Contra Mundum]

NO, i hate it when other people do it.

[ADSFuse]

Actually, I've got an entire backseat of litter from what I've gathered walking to and from my car. It's almost an OCD kind of thing where I can't walk passed a piece of trash.

And while it's true that just taking something and placing it in the trashcan can be considered littering in itself, I still find it better than leaving it about for the wildlife and streams near me to be polluted. But it's not about solving all the problems, it's about preventing more.

[Thunder]

Based on the traditional definition of the word; Carelessly tossing trash on the ground.

I also pick up other peoples litter. I don't let my car fill up with it but I do dispose of it properly. I recycle religiously and compost as well. I do not have a burn barrel and would admonish anyone who does to read up on it and stop burning trash.

[MalPixie]

I can't remember the last time I did... I use to in school but ya know how that goes stupid kids!!!!!! I was dumb then. I just didn't seem to care much back then! But now I do!!!!
Glad to see that most people don't though:cheers:

[LyraDragonStar]

I try not to, but of course I have before. It bugs me when people do right in front of me... just toss their stuff on the ground when there's a trash can close enough.

[Catiana]

Absolutely not. I've even yelled at people before when I've seen them throw something on the ground, they just look at me like I'm weird and keep going. Just another reason why I hate people.

[Happy Shrew]

I remember baffling the group I was with when I carried an empty orange juice bottle around London for a half hour before finally finding a trash can. The street is not a Dumpster, folks.

[illusi0ns4u2luv]

To be perfectly honest, I try my hardest to always be concious about it and not litter. I used to not even think twice about throwing my cigarette butts down, UNTIL I met my fiance. You won't ever catch him throwing even his smoke butts down, and it has officially rubbed off on me. Usually I will hand them to him because I don't like the butts in my pocket, but even if he's not around...I don't throw them down anymore. :)

[WokeUpDead]

If there is nothing to throw my trash away in all I have to do is take about 20 steps. It's really not that hard.

[Benvarry]

I don't litter, but I put things down the drain that are not biodegradable, and I throw things in the trash that aren't biodegradable, and I live an American lifestyle so I have a lot of solid waste in general that's harmful to the environment... _inabox_ Litter is a small problem compared to the enormous quantities of things we throw away in our everyday lives... Just because it's in a trash bin, doesn't mean it's going to go away. :(

*steps meekly off of hypocritical self-righteousness box*

[pawnman]

I don't litter, but I put things down the drain that are not biodegradable, and I throw things in the trash that aren't biodegradable, and I live an American lifestyle so I have a lot of solid waste in general that's harmful to the environment... _inabox_ Litter is a small problem compared to the enormous quantities of things we throw away in our everyday lives... Just because it's in a trash bin, doesn't mean it's going to go away. :(

*steps meekly off of hypocritical self-righteousness box*

At least it's going to a site specifically for trash. I think people make too much of the biodegradable thing.

[Astara Seague]

I try to leave everything just a little better then when I arrived there, not only in camping but in everyday life.

[phoenixblayze]

absolutly not......i cant stand it when people just toss stuff out of their cars, or where ever......its one of my pet peeves.....and i make my friends that smoke when they are at my house save their butts, no way thats littering my yard

[Astara Seague]

Oh I know I hate it when I find butts in my garden!!! they are usually my hubbys so I make him go clean them up! I work hard to keep my gardens nice, and yes tobbacco maybe good for the earth but not in butt form!

[RunningBear]

Nope I hate litter, but it's a bif problem in the UK. People just toss stuff all over the place :(

[Meabh23]

I don't litter. I also tend not to eat or consume things that come in wrappers or other throwaway packaging. So I don't have anything to litter with. I can't stand it personally, when people throw their trash on the ground, anywhere. I feel that the behavior reflects a lack of dignity and respect for this life.

[Benvarry]

At least it's going to a site specifically for trash. I think people make too much of the biodegradable thing.

They do when the product isn't actually biodegradable. But materials that take hundreds of years to break down, and/or those that are harmful to the environment are consumed and thrown out at a level that can't continue, because landfills are filling up and we're shipping it off to poor countries to make their lives even worse with our waste.

Not littering is a great thing to do... but it's not the entirety of the responsible waste management issue. Not buying things that cannot be reused, decomposed, or recycled responsibly is just as important, IMO.

[pawnman]

They do when the product isn't actually biodegradable. But materials that take hundreds of years to break down, and/or those that are harmful to the environment are consumed and thrown out at a level that can't continue, because landfills are filling up and we're shipping it off to poor countries to make their lives even worse with our waste.

Not littering is a great thing to do... but it's not the entirety of the responsible waste management issue. Not buying things that cannot be reused, decomposed, or recycled responsibly is just as important, IMO.

The filling landfills is a myth. We have a greater landfill capacity now than at any other time in history. All of the trash in all of our landfills would fit into a 5 square mile site.

[WiccanGoddess]

I litter all the time at my school, but hey, look around the courtyard, you can barely see the grass. I just attribute to the 'decor'. ;)

But, honestly? I hate that I litter. I try not to, but everytime I place my trash in the can, the can ends up knocked over, and it's all over anyways.

I don't litter anywhere else, though.

[johenn123]

i litter at gigs but theres not much else you can do :/ but out on the streets i just can't do it

[2steps]

I don't throw litter on the floor at all, I put in in my pockets, an dthen forget it so they just fuller and fuller :foopsies: though if I have an apple or something like that I put it on the grass or in bushes as it's better than throwing it in the bin

[CoolJ]

I don't litter... not like it matters, really...

[The Lady]

Nope.

[Imbrium]

Not usually...although sometimes I lose my gumwrappers to the wind when they fall out of my pocket as I dig around for something else.

oh....the humanity.:foopsies:

Otherwise, no...no littering.

[Ninjakitten]

I try not to, but it's impossible to always keep track of every little thing you carry on you throughout your entire life, so I do drop things without noticing. I'm trying to learn more about how to recycle anything that I actually do throw away, but it doesn't always happen.

[Jenne]

I don't even spit gum out the window anymore. I'm a clean-freak.

[Nighthawk]

Nope... in fact, I wanna quit my job and drive around in a pickup and pick up road litter....

[DoktorSick]

I don't litter because of what this one combian said.
You throw some trash out the window and it might land
next to a dead body and now they have your finger prints
at a crime scene and now you're are suspect.