And most public bins and all smoking areas have ashtrays and dedicated cigarette bins so it wouldn’t be hard to dispose of them properly like any other piece of rubbish and even then there’s often cigarette butts within sight of the bins and ashtrays.
Comment on Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
How often do you see somewhere to put a cigarette butt? Sure people are selfish and lazy but if there was somewhere to put them in public spaces they would be used. People who smoke in the car and toss them out the window are dickheads though
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I dom’t often see any public bins where I have lived
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Where I live public ashtrays are very common in public places. The littering is not as bad as it could be (used to be worse before public ashtrays were common), but lots of people still litter in those areas.
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think this is a big part of it, but it’s also our mentality – in Japan, there are hardly any public garbage bins. Yet there’s hardly any litter.
At least from what I’ve seen in North America, people seem to think it’s someone else’s problem that there’s no garbage bin. But that’s not an excuse.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In the US a sizable chunk of the population watched those anti littering campaigns and said “you’re not the boss of me!” then made it a point to litter more. You tell an American what to do and you’ve got a 50/50 chance that they’ll do the opposite purely out of spite, even if they otherwise agree with you.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hate this place more and more every day.
palebluethought@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You’ve gotta strip it first. When my buddy came back from the military he taught to roll it around in the fingers until the remaining tobacco falls out, then the trash goes into the pocket until a bin is found.
Although, there’s not a class on that at all. I did my fair share of littering as a smoker. I still feel shit about it, which is why I bring my picker upper stick and an empty bucket with me on walks. It comes back full every time. Water bottles everywhere.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s what I do. Flick the tip and carry the butt to a garbage can.