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Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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Blum0108@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
A lot of people do…

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- pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, I fill up a trash bag every time I go hiking
  
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  - shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
    
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- SARGE@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
  
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- Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody
  
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Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

they just litter all through nature when they go camping

Many americans do just that, yes. :'(

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- WhyFlip@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Most don’t.
  
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spookex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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