Momma H Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Just wondering. I moved to a wonderful little town and there is quite a bit around. I think some people are (she whispers) litter bugs where I live. It my town the only one in the world like this?:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardening momma Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Most of the time, no. There is when the wind blows our recycling bin over and blows the trash down the street. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virg Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 No you're aren't the only one. I was used to Oregon and assumed everywhere was as clean and that everyone is careful with the environment in this day and age. Then I moved to Utah. To be fair, I think part of it is the wind. However if it wasn't dropped in the first place.... Even my kids noticed. The first few weeks we were here they kept saying, "Uh-oh! Someone is going to get a $500 fine!" (Oregon has signs to warn you not to litter posted everywhere.) "Mom here comes the policeman to give them their fine. Oh, maybe he didn't see them drop it..." Eventually they gave up pointing it out. They still spend quite a bit of time picking up the litter though, esp when it blows into our yard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyinTN Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Yes...I was very shocked at how much trash is on the side of the roads and blows into our yard. Shame on the litter bugs! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2scouts Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Yes, I live in a University community. For some reason, many college students seem to be slobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Balaban Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 The worst in our area is glass. We live right in the center of town. Two buildings over is an abandoned restaurant that had a fire several years ago. There is glass all over the sidewalk. The "sidewalk cleaners" push the glass up against the side of the building but all along the front and side of the building is glass. So dangerous. And then there are people who just smash bottles for no reason around here too. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I live on a loop of about a dozen or so houses. My family "sponsors" our street, so we pick up trash at least twice a year, and fill a minimum of 6 regular sized trash bags every time. I have to give a little leeway for bears and racoons dragging garbage around, and for high winds but, really, it just shouldn't be this bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Generally, no. But I often see prisoners picking up trash and cleaning up the streets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 No, our small town is generally very clean. The street sweeper comes by at least twice a month. We do live on a corner and occasionally get cups, beer cans (lovely!) thrown in our yard, but it's rare really. Our town even has doggie waste disposal bags in the parks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena1277 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 It's pretty clean around here. Dd worked with her AHG troop's Adopt-a-Hwy project a few months ago. Their street is a residential street in a middle class neighborhood. The girls were nearly fighting over the small bit of trash we found. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 The cleanest city I ever saw in my life was in Bremerton WA, it was so other worldly in how clean it is. Spooky clean. It was like walking in an architects dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma H Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 I will say it has been windy and that has made it worse. I didn't notice it in the summer because it is so green. The people here are super friendly but I am having a hard time with the litter. I have asked other people (people I know and feel comfortable asking) about it and they really don't seem to notice or care. I already have plans to clean up my neighborhood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 We lived fourteen years in an impoverished, crime-ridden area of the city. There was trash absolutely everywhere. Our neighborhood wasn't even "that bad"--there were other, much worse neighborhoods east of us that were not only far more dangerous but also had far more litter and broken glass everywhere. Now that we have moved to a middle-class suburb, we never see trash. It's quite clean out here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NASDAQ Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I live in Vancouver, Canada. It's clean, except for the Downtown Lower East Side, which is full of drug addicts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 No trash here except sometimes on trash day when something misses the truck when they tip the can into the hopper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetMissMagnolia Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 most of the time no---not unless a can gets knocked over by dogs (that are supposed to be put up) or something falls out/off while they are dumping the can into the garbage truck.....now it's different on the highways-there is sometimes trash where people have thrown it onto the sides of the road or something falls out/off a truck or something---they do a clean-up with volunteers or the low-risk guys from jail doing the cleanups pretty regular-I saw them out yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactus flower Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 We live in a large city. Residential streets are cleaned by machine weekly, business areas less often. Along the interstate, prisoners clean monthly. This cleaning is necessary because so many people are slobs, throwing all kinds of trash out car windows or letting it blow on trash day or in windy weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes, there is plenty here in town and on the roads (we're rural) out of town. I remember being floored when I went to CA because of how nice and clean and well taken care of everything was. It's a culture shock, to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Generally no. The highway between our town and the next sometimes has some I think but community corrections is always out there with the community service sentence people picking up so even it is usually good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Nope. Definitely not in the streets. I live in a Baltimore suburb. Sometimes you see a cup or something along the sidewalk, but they're pretty vigilant about keeping things picked up here. It's nice here for walkers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 We are very lucky to not have any trash blowing around. A lot of us here walk, so if something does accidently get blown from trash, we pick it up on our route. I also don't live at a 'high point'. If you live on a hill, it seems everything blows your way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Is my town the only one in the world like this?:confused: There are many parts of the world where people are not used to a standard of living where they expect their living environment to be clean. Clean comes after running water, sanitation and other basic needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 There are many parts of the world where people are not used to a standard of living where they expect their living environment to be clean. Clean comes after running water, sanitation and other basic needs. Yes. I've also lived in places where people aren't as concerned about trash on the streets because it provides work for those who are hired to clean it. My city has a lot of trash around right now because the snow just melted. It'll get cleaned up in a few weeks when spring is really here and look much better through the summer and fall. I'd hate for someone to see Bishkek right now and think it was always this dirty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delaney Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Not generally but I am comparing that to growing up for 21 years on Long Island.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisbeth Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 No, it is very clean and people keep their houses and yards in a Stepford-like manner. Sometimes I crave some eccentric character and love going to quirky areas to get a break from the Stepford thing. I love my town, but, being an eccentric character myself, sometime I need to breathe. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onceuponatime Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes, there is and it drives me crazy. It's usually stuff people dump out of their cars as they drive along, especially fast food trash. Come on, how hard is it to take the trash to a trash can when you stop or go home? I was telling dh that Woodsy Owl needs to make another visit to the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Depends where- my part of town, no. Very low income part of town, yes. I think it is because most of the street cleaning is done by residents and businesses and in my part of the city, all of us keep things clean. In some abandoned part, no one does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillametteMom Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 I live in a college town in Oregon and it's very clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Inna* Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes. It's everywhere. :( We live across a high school and every day I have to pick up the trash on our front yard that wind blew from there. It's really quite disguising. Plastic soda bottles, various snack wrappers, cigarette butts. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Peach Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 I think our city is generally very clean, but after the snow melts, there are usually some messes to pick up. But the city is good about keeping it clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktkcb Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 In general, no, but I live in a really good city in socal that takes quite a bit of care to keep everything looking good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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