#yet volunteer groups would rather spend their time scouring for a few peices of trash that blew into the neighborhood park in the last 24hrs | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sarenderpity · 17 days ago

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I NEED people to understand that LITTER (the stray trash we see pile up in populated areas) and LITTERING (the act of just throwing trash willfully on the ground) are often largely unrelated. Very little litter was just abandoned on purpose. Most of it makes it's way out of uncovered trash recepticals, open car doors, imperfect delivery of trash from point A to point B, and in some areas, storm water and wind carrying trash from it's landfill destination to another unintentional location.

"Who would ever litter?" Bro YOU. Any time you've used an uncovered park trashcan on a windy day.

#ive done too many fucking cleanups throughout my life where the source of the trash escape was both close and obvious #to act like its an individualism problem #also ill surely yet on my pedestal about this again on another day but #we gotta get more willful about urban pickups #it cant all be parks and reserves #like yeah i want the parks and reserves clean too but usually theres already city taskforces for that #yet volunteer groups would rather spend their time scouring for a few peices of trash that blew into the neighborhood park in the last 24hrs #than clean up the piled up garbage in the neighborhood they blew over from in the first place

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