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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 13, 2023 12:59:12 GMT
Every single day, I clean up litter from my front yard.
Wrappers, cigarette butts (Oh my goodness, all the butts!), paper napkins, coffee cups, soda cans.
Little pieces of clear plastic that had wrapped candy or pastries. Chip bags.
I have a dedicated trashcan, lined with a contractor bag, for disposing of it all.
I am just so tired of it. It is demoralizing.
Sure, some might be accidental, I guess.
But what would go through a person's brain to just drop their trash where ever they're walking, without a second thought?
Do you deal with this?
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Post by KikiPea on May 13, 2023 13:05:26 GMT
Fairly often, either from trash day, or kids walking to/from school or the bus stop.
In the last few weeks, we have found a grilled cheese sandwich either in our yard, or out in the street close by. Some kid isn’t eating their school lunch!
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Post by gar on May 13, 2023 13:06:39 GMT
No I don't deal with that - that's horrible. Very occasionally a piece of paper will blow there when the dustmen are emptying the bins but it's rare.
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Post by jeremysgirl on May 13, 2023 13:13:35 GMT
I don't have that issue either. On trash day, it's quite probable something might blow into our yard from an overfull curbie. But that's about it. I would be irritated to live somewhere that is covered in random trash. I just don't even know what kind of assholes do that. I'm sorry.
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Post by Rhondito on May 13, 2023 13:23:30 GMT
Very rarely. Occasionally a stray piece of trash will be on my lawn but it's from the wind blowing it from someone's can on trash day. Although, a couple of months ago I found two random fried chicken tenders on my front lawn.
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Post by pantsonfire on May 13, 2023 13:30:24 GMT
Since out front yard is connected with 3 other homes, when it is super windy I might find a wrapper or cig butt. Or if the trash truck lost some items it may roll into the yard.
With the poop bag dispensers and small trash cans placed around in various places, people use that for small trash they have.
And maintenance will grab stuff he sees when out and about.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2023 13:35:10 GMT
Not often. City ordinance says you have to rent a trash can from a provider so there's no loose bags for birds to peck at. We do find random bits at times but not daily, usually only on garbage collection day.
At our previous house, it was daily. Garbage could be put out in bags, cans, or the larger bins that you rent. One of our neighbors never used a can so there were constantly ripped open bags. We would find chicken bones, pizza crusts, wrappers in our yard from the animals. We lived across the street from a commercial property and people just dump trash in the parking lot. Stuff would often blow under the fence and into our yard. Plus there was a bus stop nearby. We were also very close to a main street so we got a lot of walkers. I kept a box of disposable gloves to collect stuff.
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Post by karenlou on May 13, 2023 13:46:26 GMT
EVERY stinking day...And I live on a residential dead end street!!!!! What I pick up is from our neighbors on the left!!!! SO frustrating!!!!
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 13, 2023 13:57:24 GMT
Yes. We are the end house in our cul-de-sac where the prevailing wind blows, and all the litter blown from rubbish and recycling bins ends up down our drive. We pick up rubbish most days, and put it back in our recycling bins for the bin-men to collect the following week. That's all though. Our neighbours are as considerate as most. I've been out litter-picking though, and I'm very thankful we don't live on the school route (general food/drink waste), dog walking route (bags of poo ) or by the bus stop (cigarette ends and packets). Yuck.
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Post by moodyblue on May 13, 2023 13:57:26 GMT
What little I get is generally from stuff blowing in the wind from somewhere, like a trash can or when they are being emptied. Occasionally I’ve found something that was probably tossed out on purpose, but that’s rare.
I grew up across the road from the high school football field. We would get some trash after football games or track meets, mostly stuff that blew over. Long after I grew up the head maintenance guy at the school would send someone over to clean up any litter in the front yard so my parents no longer had to do it.
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Post by dewryce on May 13, 2023 14:00:23 GMT
I’m sorry you’re having to deal with that!
Everyone here has to use the same trash/recycle bins provided by the waste management group so we don’t often find things. The children walking to the bus stops seem to be pretty well-behaved groups.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 13, 2023 14:18:33 GMT
It's not an issue at this home or my previous one, but I've dealt with it at other houses in the past. At one house, most random trash came from falling out of people's golf carts -- cans & bottles mostly. An occasional golf score card. Once, it was someone's hat.
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Post by myshelly on May 13, 2023 14:34:47 GMT
Occasionally on trash day we deal with litter that’s blowing around the street because it fell out of the garbage truck or someone’s can or the garbage men didn’t empty people’s cans all the way.
We don’t have rules about bags and we don’t have the trucks where the mechanical arm lifts the cab. It’s still a guy lifting your cab and turning it upside down into the back of the truck.
Some trash days it’s fine, others it’s not.
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Post by lainey on May 13, 2023 14:40:57 GMT
Fairly often, we live on a really steep hill and everything seems to blow down in front of our house. Thankfully the council litter picker comes round regularly and cleans it all up.
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Post by iowgirl on May 13, 2023 14:47:23 GMT
Although I live 'in the country' - my house is along a busy blacktop. My ditches always have trash. Nasty stuff sometimes. For a while I was getting empty aerosol air cans, right by my mailbox. So someone was obviously huffing, and along the same route, since I got their empties. I also find water/pop/gatorade bottles with piss in them. Lots of cans and bottles. I mow several farm sites, so I just drive my mower from site to site. The country road ditches have so much trash in them. Cans and bottles are worth a nickel, but water bottles are not. I think they should be. But less people are willing to stop and pick up cans for the .05. As the older generation dies off, the youngers are not bothered to collect them. I use one of those grabber devices to pick up. I am not touching that stuff. I saw someone toss a big bag of fast food trash. I picked it up and followed them to their house. I gave it to them and told them I think they accidentally dropped it. They live in this neighborhood! Geesh! There used to be a bunch of old retired farmers that would drive around and pick up cans, cash them in, and go have coffee with the earnings. These guys were each millionaires, when you figured out their farm ground owner-ship. Probably at least once or twice over if not more. Drove an old van and picked up cans. LOL That does NOT happen any more. They picked up trash too.
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Post by tanya2 on May 13, 2023 14:47:43 GMT
only usually on trash day, particularly if its a windy day
but i live in a more rural area with no sidewalks & only a few people that walk past each day. This is just yet another reason why I don't want to live in the city
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Post by Nanner on May 13, 2023 14:52:28 GMT
All the time. We live on a corner. And although most people are responsible and pick it up, we also find dog poop along the outside of the side fence, which really ticks me off.
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Post by epeanymous on May 13, 2023 14:53:13 GMT
I live down a flight of steps from the street so never. But our garbage cans are up at the street in a busy neoghborhood, and people put a lot of dog bags, drink cups, etc in them. A lot of the nearby apartment buildings also have cans out front. it's a pretty touristy area (I am a short walk to the space needle), and I think having a lot of access to trash cans cuts back on the ambient trash.
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Post by Lurkingpea on May 13, 2023 14:57:46 GMT
Next to never.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on May 13, 2023 14:59:12 GMT
In general, no issues with random dumping of trash or debris in the yard.
When it's really windy, an assortment of trash(plastic bags, empty water bottles, fast food bags and wrappers, random paper bits, etc...). Sometimes the wind carries it on, sometimes it stays and needs to be picked up and put in the trash. Parking lots seem to have the most accumulation of random trash.
People can be so inconsiderate and lacking "no litter or no dumping" manners. On random streets, especially seldom travelled (with no street lights) streets, or in the shopping centers alleys by the dumpsters.......people dump bigger stuff that won't fit in a trash can (mattress, couch, broken furniture, junk they don't want, etc...).
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Post by garcia5050 on May 13, 2023 15:03:14 GMT
My house sides a semi-busy street. There is a high school 2 blocks over and 2 liquor/convenience stores a block away. It’s daily for us. We have these tall hedges along that side of our house and there is always trash shoved into the hedges. It’s kind of sad that it doesn’t bother me anymore.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on May 13, 2023 15:04:48 GMT
Most of the time, no trash in my front yard. However, sometimes teens throw beer cans/bottles out the window as they drive by at night.
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Post by compeateropeator on May 13, 2023 15:07:31 GMT
I live in condos with parking lots and dumpsters, so some.
My parents live rural on a dirt road and there is stuff on the side of the road daily. In fact a friend that walks brings a bag and collects trash daily, and always has some.
Vermont just had Green Up day. On the 1st Saturday in May we clean-up our roadsides. We have been doing this since the 70s. You see out collecting trash old people with canes, families, school groups, college students, etc. And then you just see bright green bags all along the roads with piles of tires and such waiting for pick-up. It is both a feel good and a what the hell type scene. It really makes a difference, but then it really pisses you off that you have to do it again next year because people think it’s is fine to throw shit out on the side of the road.
I don’t know this year’s total, but from what I saw it I looked like it was a good participation year.
In 2022: Vermonters picked up 497 tons of trash-- that’s up almost 20% from last (2021) year-- and they cleaned more than 75% of the state’s 13,000 miles of town roads.
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Post by Ramona on May 13, 2023 15:16:19 GMT
Every day. I live on a corner, one side is the state highway, the other a residential street that is basically a dead end. The highway side has fast food wrappers, beer cans, gloves, and even assorted tools. The residential side has the same except those litter bugs are neighbors. It makes me angry.
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Post by lisae on May 13, 2023 15:28:15 GMT
Given the type of grass, which is only mowed with a tractor, in the yard bordering the road, I'm not going to see the little stuff. We are surprisingly lucky that we only have something to pick up a couple of times a month. We are on a main road and not far from the trash collection place so people are often driving buy with their trash cans. We did haul off a chair cushion this week.
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Post by chaosisapony on May 13, 2023 15:35:52 GMT
Constantly. The edge of my property is right on a fairly busy road and I find soda cans, bottles, cigarette packages, etc in my front yard all the time. Just down the street is a little convenience store and I find their plastic bags in my yard a lot too.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on May 13, 2023 15:38:46 GMT
Not often. We do live on a street that a lot of people drive down. Maybe every other month, someone eats in front of our house at 2am and dumps the garbage in the gutter. Annoying. Also occasional stuff that probably flew out of cars.
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Post by cmpeter on May 13, 2023 15:40:59 GMT
Very rarely. I can think of twice when a bear got into someone’s van (once our own) and dragged a plastic garbage bag across our back yard into the woods behind our house.
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Post by femalebusiness on May 13, 2023 15:41:55 GMT
Almost every day. My house/front porch is situated so that anything that can be carried by a breeze ends up at the foot of my steps and stays there. We get a wonderful breeze every afternoon and I wouldn't trade that for no litter. I find all kinds of things. It doesn’t bother me though, I just pick it up.
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Post by katlady on May 13, 2023 15:58:09 GMT
Very rarely. The wind may blow something on to the yard, or before we had big plastic trash bins, a raccoon got into my neighbor’s trash bags and threw the garbage all over the place. I live on one of the main roads through my community, but it is a gated community. People are walking for exercise, not going or coming from someplace, so no trash (other than dog poop). Sorry you have to deal with rude and inconsiderate people.
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