With respect to Japan, there’s definitely a culture difference, but I don’t think it’s the consumerism/waste culture. There’s so much excess packaging in Japanese food products.
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Nikelui@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Japan it’s almost impossible to find a trash can on the streets and yet people don’t litter. The problem is the culture centered around consumerism and waste.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, but do they wolf down a half pound of meat plus fried potatoes and a half gallon of sugar water four times a day in Japan?
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You mean at the kfc, in Japan?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, the KFC with fries in Japan. That’s totally what I meant.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Yeah, East Asia doesn’t even try to minimise packaging. Environmentalism just isn’t the same there or something.
Nikelui@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I might be wrong, but I assume that the food packaging is a necessity because of the extreme humidity, otherwise it will spoil very fast.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Packaging is fine, but it’s multiple layers sometimes. I feel it’s more for presentation than function.
tunetardis@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In fairness, I remember a time when everyone smoked in Japan and flicked cigarette butts all over the place.
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plenty of consumerism and waste in Japan. For trash, it’s socially acceptable to ask a store to use their trash can.
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 months ago
This. Throwing your trash on the ground because you can’t find a trash can amounts to childish entitlement in my eyes.
No trash cans in the forest, is OP saying they just litter all through nature when they go camping?
Blum0108@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A lot of people do…
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 months ago
Yeah, I fill up a trash bag every time I go hiking
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Keep up the good fight! I’ve got several miles of trail cleaned behind my hood, one more major path to go!
Maybe you do this, if not, take a plastic retail bag, fold it over twice, while pressing the air out, roll it up tight and rubber band it. I always have 2-4 highly compact bags.
SARGE@startrek.website 2 months ago
I once dropped a water bottle out of my backpack, and couldn’t find it when I retraced my hike, but I did start noticing tons of trash everywhere.
So I started keeping a trash bag in my backpack, and filling a small bag every time I hike.
I may not have found my bottle, but I’ll make sure I clean up more than I left every time I’m out.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody
Carighan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Many americans do just that, yes. :'(
WhyFlip@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most don’t.
spookex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Funnily enough that’s where I find most of the litter in Japan, like, if you go to any non-main road that goes through a bit of forest, you will see signs threatening fines for littering, with a bunch of trash tossed in that exact area.
I have seen cans, bottles, ACs, TVs, baby car seats, bags, and general household trash. Also found a golf club once that I actually brought home because I thought that it was neat. And this is only along a single stretch of road that is only like 1km long.
So Japan isn’t some miracle society that doesn’t litter, it’s just that they do it someplace that is somewhat out of sight.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s somewhat comforting to know that no matter how far out in the wild you go you eventually find signs of humanity.
The fact those signs are pieces of trash that someone either left or blew in on the wind is depressing.