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Why?
(thelemmy.club)
Only in Mississauga I find this disgusting behaviour.
Why are people just openly littering. It never used to be like this. What happened ?
I assume littering is partially cultural (not everyone is raised to think littering is wrong) and also partially about opportunity (what reasonable alternatives did people have for waste disposal).
In terms of culture, you have to get them while they're young, with propaganda designed for children, like Mr. Rogers or Sesame Street.
In terms of opportunity: maybe when ordering a new drink, people are running out of free cup holders in their car and need to dispose of their morning coffee cup to make room for the new drink they just ordered, so making a trashcan available might make the most sense to reduce littering.
Sure, we can feel anger towards the individual litterbug (probably some of them know it's "wrong" to litter and could do more to avoid the need to litter - personally I would empty the liquid and then keep the trash cup in a plastic bag I keep for trash in the car), but it's more practical to address this as a social problem.
It's also corporate culture to blame the customers for the littering. Tim Hortons produces a disposable cup, and people are simply returning it to those responsible for creating it.
Apparently Coca Cola is one of the biggest plastic polluter in the world and they lobby against deposit return systems because it's cheaper for them to pass the responsibility to the consumers. If some countries are choking with littered plastic bottles, maybe the consumers are dropping them everywhere. But maybe the ones producing the bottles could also be seen as being responsible for not taking them back.
yes, the suppliers design the system consumers operate within, and then victim-blame the consumers when they live within that system
even worse, anti-littering campaigns were designed and funded by these large corporations to distract from actual environmental disasters like rising greenhouse gases and oil spills that were causing the real harm, and which were more directly caused by these corporations
* Personal carbon footprint intensifies *
i realized my carbon footprint was actually quite small after stomping on the face of an oil executive, had to do it like 7 times to cover them!