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Why cities aren't covered in empty cans of coconut water

• yellowapple 11y ago
  > My solution was extremely complicated, yet effective, and I will try my best to summarise it for you: Ask them to use smaller garbage bags. Which means more frequent trips to the dumpster. Might not be a problem for short people, but might very well be a problem for elderly or disabled people. The better solution here would not to have such tall dumpsters if possible/feasible. Not all dumpsters are garguantuan, after all. Maybe you'll need more of them, but I'm sure that's a worthwhile tradeoff. > Since the overwhelming amount of litter is junk food in one form or another [...] Dumb people throw away dumb litter. While being fully aware that people (like me) who eat fast food instead of buying organic free-range GMO-free gluten-free kale/quinoa/tofu salads at Whole Foods for quadruple the money might be just doing it because we're dumb, does the author at all suspect that maybe - just maybe - people eat junk food because they can't afford yuppie Whole Foods stuff? Not to say that the littering is excusable. My objection is solely to the characterization of people who eat junk food as "dumb", or that they necessarily have a choice in the matter, rather that recognizing that poor people aren't fictional creatures and that not everyone has the luxury of a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or whatever newfangled healthy yuppie organic store is in vogue right now. That bit came across as ridiculously elitist, whether or not the author meant it to be.