No. If you say yes take a look around and ask why the fvck anyone should have to pickup the crap left behind by the losers like yourself who left it there. I can understand litter by accident (had paper/napkin blow out my open car window) but to deliberately throw or dump something you need to get a fvcking clue.
Baked
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As everyone knows, how clean your neighborhood is is based on what the avg. income/house hold. Rich neighborhood tend to be very clean and have monthly street cleaning. Medium to low income neighborhood tend to be some way dirty to very dirty w/ people dumping their own garbage next to public garbage bins, and have weekly street cleaning. At least that's how it is in my city. Lately, assholes have been dumping large bags of garbage right on the curbs on street cleaning day. Man, I wish they get run over by the street cleaning Zambonis.
DannyBoy
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I selected yes because in _certain_ situations I've had no choice, but I'll usually go out of my way to find a bin, heck I've even seen empty bins with rubbish around it and I've ended up chucking half of it in the bin myself.
I don't smoke but I would love for you and all smokers to ride behind me with your window open and I toss a lit butt out the window into your face. :| :disgust:
not on a regular basis or anything, but if I'm trying to clean out my car in a hurry and there are some small food wrappers or something on the passenger seat, I might dump them outside if there's no garbage can nearby.
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This house isn't in a neighborhood, it's on a main road through a suburban area in central NJ. It's a high income area, but because it's also a high traffic area there's a lot of litter. The trash wasn't concentrated near the road, so I didn't expect to pick up nearly as much as I did. The wind had scattered junk into the back yard as well. I stopped when I filled the first trash bag because it was getting dark. I had covered about the first 200 feet from the road.
I never litter. I'd put trash in my pockets before I'd throw it on the ground.
Don't mess with Texas.
Don't mess with Texas.
Rock Hydra
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Well Almost never..........
I do spit my chewing gum onto the road sometimes.
Never on the sidewalk.
http://adc.angel.net/campaigns/historic_campaigns_pollution/#
http://adc.angel.net/campaigns/historic_campaigns_pollution/
http://www.adcouncil.org/pdf/pollution_print_iron_eyes_cody.pdf
Ever hear of fire started by cig.??
It happpens way too often.
http://www.tobacco.org/articles/category/fires/%20/
http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/cigbuttimpacts.htm
Assorted articles about cigarette butts and fires:
According to the National Fire Protection Association, cigarette-caused fires result in more than 1,000 civilian deaths, 3,000 critical injuries (many among firefighters), and $400 million in direct property damage each year. (Source: Albany Times Union, June 13, 2003)
March 2004, Richmond, Virginia: Cigarette butts tossed in a jammed trash chute likely sparked a March 26 fire that destroyed 26 buildings and caused $20 million in damage, fire officials said Thursday. Arson has been ruled out, a preliminary report released by the city said. The wind-whipped fire started about noon in a five-story apartment building under construction to house Virginia Commonwealth students. A chute used by workers to toss debris and sawdust was likely the source of the fire when still-smoldering cigarette butts were tossed into the chute with other trash. Wind gusts of 20 mph blew embers onto homes, some of them six blocks away. It took 200 firefighters about five hours to control the fire. One death was blamed on the fire when power to the area was shut off and a woman's oxygen tank quit. (Source: CBS 6-TV, Richmond)
In January 2001, a motorist driving along Interstate 8 in San Diego County flicked a cigarette butt onto the center median, sparking a fire that eventually burned more than 10,000 acres, destroyed 16 homes and charred 64 vehicles.
* In 1999, a lorry driver in France threw a butt from the cab window. The smoldering cigarette ignited a fire inside the Mont Blanc tunnel that killed 39 people.
* Investigators are still searching for the cause of the massive Durango fire in Colorado that has destroyed 56 homes since it began last month. The leading theory, however, is a discarded cigarette butt. Local police received 10 calls from drivers who saw other drivers flicking butts out the window at about the time the blaze began.
September 18, 2002:
CAMP PENDLETON (CA)- A wildfire that scorched 247 acres on the base Monday afternoon was started by a cigarette butt tossed by a passing motorist, fire investigators said.
The fire burned for about four hours along Vandegrift Boulevard, near the airfield, before firefighters got it under control. Scott Simpson, an investigator with the Camp Pendleton Fire Department, said there are thousands of cigarette butts on the ground in that area, but he was able to find the specific one that ignited Monday's fire. "Burn patterns helped indicate the point of origin," Simpson said
Cigarette-caused fire threatens four San Andreas (CA) homes:
Smoking blamed for San Andreas fire; crews keep flames away from homes
Smoking is blamed for a grass fire that threatened at least four homes just south of San Andreas on Friday. The fire started about 11:44 a.m. behind a house on O'Connell Lane off Highway 49 and quickly ran up a hill of dry grass and trees fed by the vegetation and fanned by a stiff breeze.
A citation was issued to the smoker, according to information from the California Department of Forestry. At least one firefighter was treated for heat-related injuries as the temperature climbed above 100 degrees. As a precaution, PG&E shut down power along a line in the area, disrupting service to about 2,300 people, PG&E spokeswoman Emily Barnett said. The blaze consumed five acres of grass and oak.
A long stretch of hot days and warm nights has local fire
I litter sometimes,I will of course throw refuse away when there is a rubbish bin close by.But If not I chunk it.My problem with people who are against littering is that they state "littering is an eyesore" or "damage the enviroment" as if landfills are beautifull enviromentally friendly locations.They just dont want to be confronted with their own consumption.
Nope. The most I do is throw tiny tiny tiny pieces of paper on the floor. Anything that's not biodegradable goes in my pocket until I reach a garbage can
Originally posted by: Gurck
Same till I quitOriginally posted by: Zim Hosein
Same here
*Absolutely HATES seeing cigarette butts on the ground*
RelaxTheMind
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in new york city... all the time. anywhere else i try to stay clean.
for when i did smoke. i used the ashtray in my car and emptied it into trash cans. I also hated seeing cigarette butts everywhere.
for when i did smoke. i used the ashtray in my car and emptied it into trash cans. I also hated seeing cigarette butts everywhere.
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