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Post by leannec on May 13, 2023 16:12:19 GMT
Never ... I live in a condo now where they are very good at keeping the grounds clean ... When I lived in a house (for 25 years until last November), I was at the end of a cul-de-sac with little foot traffic so there was almost no one passing in front of my house ... it was awesome! Your situation would make me mental!
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Post by lavawalker1 on May 13, 2023 16:32:19 GMT
Never where I live now. Our association keeps everything really clean, but on the farm roads surrounding our area, people dump stuff all the time 😡. Too lazy and cheap to pay for a dump run!
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Post by paperaddictedpea on May 13, 2023 16:43:08 GMT
Frequently. I live at a stop sign and people seem to think it’s perfectly OK to toss trash from their car into my yard when stopping.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on May 13, 2023 16:44:04 GMT
I live in a small townhouse subdivision. It's full of "divorced guys" and "retirees." There are only a handful of kids, and it isn't a walking area.
I walk my dog, several times a day, and always carry a few poop bags and another bag. I pick up debris and dog poop as I walk. My personal record is 32 nips bottles in a .5 mile loop after the snow melted! I pick up from neighbors yards, moreso than mine, because no one walks or drives past my house (back of a cul-de-sac.) Few people in my neighborhood have dogs, and only a few families have children (I think there are 5 now, 3 in the same family!) I know whose dog I tend to pick up after. Grrrr but I just do it if I see it because it's usually in the yards of people that don't have dogs and that is just messed up. I'd rather build doggie owner good will.
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Post by lgr4 on May 13, 2023 16:45:53 GMT
karenlou Same girl, same! Except mine is across the street-its ridiculous!
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Post by katiekaty on May 13, 2023 17:03:07 GMT
Never! We live in a great neighborhood. Lots of people walking everyday. Carry a grocery sack and pick up any debris. Me too. We love where we live and it seems everyone else does too. Tras flying everywhere or tossed is just not an issue.
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Post by Zee on May 13, 2023 18:16:55 GMT
Almost never but we did see on our Ring that the guy who cut the neighbor's yard deliberately blew the grass trimmings and a plastic bottle into our yard. Dick move!
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Post by leeny on May 13, 2023 20:23:12 GMT
A couple of times a week, but we have a middle school just down the street and elementary school around the corner. We have found school ID cards, homework, candy wrappers, disposable masks (Lots during the pandemic!). Don't get me started on the dog poop that isn't from our dog. Occasionally we find fast food bags with garbage sitting on our curb from some inconsiderate person parking for just a short time in the neighborhood.
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Post by StephDRebel on May 13, 2023 20:39:32 GMT
Basically always, but we're in the middle of the city. Most weekend mornings there are cups and tequila bottles from people leaving the bars on the block to drink on the street where it's cheaper. Other than that it's just trash blowing around.
I'm grateful there is much less poop on the streets here than there was in richmond where people really enjoyed squatting near where we parked. 🤢
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Post by peabay on May 13, 2023 21:02:37 GMT
Just little nip bottles thrown in the woods. Not often and not a lot, but that's what we occasionally find.
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Post by Merge on May 13, 2023 21:10:34 GMT
No, not at all. How strange. I guess I might expect that if I lived near a bus stop or a place where kids congregate after school.
I am amazed at the litter I see along the roadsides in our city. I don’t understand people who just throw their trash out the car window. It’s no effort at all to just trash or recycle it when you get where you’re going.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 13, 2023 22:55:05 GMT
Sometimes there will be a random piece of paper or chip bag, etc. I think most of it isn’t from people intentionally littering though. I see it blow out of the trash trucks on trash days (Mondays and Thursdays in our neighborhood), it’s mostly recycling stuff that’s blowing around. All of the trucks that come through have the hydraulic arms that lift and dump the cans. I think it’s because a lot of the time people have their recycling loose in the single sort cans so it blows out easier on windy days when the cans are dumped, while most actual trash is in bags inside the cans.
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Post by AussieMeg on May 13, 2023 23:09:01 GMT
That sounds awful! Thankfully I have never had to deal with other people's rubbish on my property.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 14, 2023 0:53:17 GMT
Very little. I am impressed with how little, because we have an elementary school bus stop right outside.
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Post by maryannscraps on May 14, 2023 1:50:30 GMT
None. I live on a very quiet street. Almost no foot traffic or car traffic. Busier roads in town get a lot. Prisoners from the county jail regularly clean up a ton of roadside trash here.
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Post by elaine on May 14, 2023 2:40:20 GMT
Daily.
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Post by librarylady on May 14, 2023 2:46:27 GMT
What a mess! About 2-3 times per year we might get a stray item that has blown in from somewhere but never on a regular basis. Even on trash PU day, we don't get trash blown in.
I'm sad for all of you who have random trash blowing in.
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Post by snyder on May 14, 2023 2:48:56 GMT
I don't really have an issue. Once in a great while something will get blown into the yard. I don't live on a high traffic street and especially with walkers. Maybe a few here and there walking their dogs. That is really horrible you have to put up with so much trash every single day. Could code enforcement be of any help to you? Like somone monitor the area a little to see who might be the culprits.
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Post by papersilly on May 14, 2023 3:36:38 GMT
Thankfully, close to never. Mostly people who don't clean up after their dogs but no regular litter.
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Post by papersilly on May 14, 2023 3:38:40 GMT
Thankfully, close to never. Mostly people who don't clean up after their dogs but no regular litter.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on May 14, 2023 6:11:37 GMT
Only golf balls from very bad golfers.
I think the amount of trash is probably directly proportional to the amount of traffic, whether foot or vehicle. We have a beachfront lot along a Highway, and it needs frequent pick ups.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 14, 2023 12:51:08 GMT
Could code enforcement be of any help to you? Like somone monitor the area a little to see who might be the culprits. I doubt it. Litter seems to not even be on the radar of local government.
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Post by KelleeM on May 14, 2023 13:55:01 GMT
Very rarely. I live in a townhouse complex with 25 units. We have a dumpster that is emptied twice a week. There’s an orange tennis ball near a tree across from my home. I just said to ds this morning that I wondered where it came from. He said there are a couple of dogs living here now and I told him they should learn to pick up their toys and bring them home 🤣🤣.
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Post by padresfan619 on May 14, 2023 14:14:56 GMT
Every day, we live off of a pretty busy road and people are gross. Usually it’s just receipts or a random fast food wrapper. But I don’t mind the trash as much as the cat poop a random feral cat leaves in my flower beds every day.
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Post by janeliz on May 14, 2023 14:49:31 GMT
We get some occasionally when litter blows up against our fence from a nearby road. People who throw stuff out of their cars are such assholes.
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Post by grammanisi on May 14, 2023 16:25:21 GMT
Every day. We live in the county, on an acre, on a corner. One time there was a full bag of trash in our yard. I put on gloves and opened it. There was mail with the culprits name. I took to their house and dumped in their yard. Maybe not the smartest thing I've ever done, but I was pissed!
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Post by monklady123 on May 14, 2023 18:58:33 GMT
Rarely, thankfully. The day I'm most likely to find litter is on trash pickup day if something has blown out of someone's recycling bin as the truck lifted it up. The pickup guys are usually good about grabbing stuff that spills but if it's windy things do get away. Otherwise I suppose something might blow down the street once in awhile, but not often. Plus, there's a group of boys in the next block up who are radical about litter. lol. I know that because I see them at school all the time and they'll mention how they go on trash pick up walks (something that many of us started during the pandemic)... So maybe they're taking care of any random thing that dares enter our street. haha The boys do tell me in great detail about how disgusting people are on the busy road where the 7-11 is a few blocks over from us. I agree with them, some people are disgusting. One said once "There's a big garbage can just on the corner, they could walk a few steps and throw their bags in there!!!" said with all the indignation a 9-year-old can muster. lol.
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Post by melanell on May 14, 2023 20:54:35 GMT
Very infrequently---IF I don't count any that we find on garbage day---because I know that's a case of something being dropped when the trash is collected and then blowing about during the day.
But people just dropping trash as they walk by---almost never.
Oddly enough, I currently live somewhere with a lot of pedestrian traffic. Previously I lived on a street that almost never had any pedestrians because it had such heavy vehicular traffic. And there we did get a lot of litter, apparently from people dropping trash from their cars.
I don't know if it's the behavior of the people that is different, or if it's simply a difference in the lay of the land. The road was higher than our property before, so trash would roll/blow down the front hill or down our driveway. Now our house is on a curve midway down a hill, and the house yard & driveway are higher than the road. So maybe the litter just winds up someplace else? I really don't know.
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Post by melanell on May 14, 2023 20:56:13 GMT
I will say, however, that part of our yard and part of the neighboring yard are lightly wooded, and so to anyone passing by, it might give the impression that it's an empty lot. And perhaps that's why, but people try to stick signs for their business on our property in that section with some regularity.
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Post by smartypants71 on May 15, 2023 12:30:53 GMT
Daily. And it's even worse on recycling pickup day because no bags are allowed in the bin. In addition, we are waiting for the city to come pick up a dead raccoon. So gross.
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