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Where I live (coastal UK) the answer is quite simply that people throw them in. Yes really. More discard them in the street, where the wind does the rest. No ev
by stevetrewick 11y ago
Where I live (coastal UK) the answer is quite simply that people throw them in. Yes really. More discard them in the street, where the wind does the rest. No evidence so far that the 5p mandatory charge is changing this behaviour. So yeah, I can believe that some large portion comes from coastal litter.
Someone's sure to pop along and mention commons, but a large proportion of people who my partner or I have questioned or upbraided about their litter habits seem to genuinely believe they're keeping someone in a job, which makes it more of a broken window fallacy.
Everyone should read Bastiat [0]
[0] http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#broken_window http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#broken_window
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- melling 11y agoSame here in NYC. https://instagram.com/p/4hV_LcgD_H/?taken-by=mmellinger66 https://instagram.com/p/4hV_LcgD_H/?taken-by=mmellinger66 https://instagram.com/p/39AlorgD4n/?taken-by=mmellinger66 https://instagram.com/p/39AlorgD4n/?taken-by=mmellinger66 https://instagram.com/p/3_lmaRADx_/?taken-by=mmellinger66 https://instagram.com/p/3_lmaRADx_/?taken-by=mmellinger66
- ingenieros 11y agoIn Iceland some folks find it more convenient to dump their old furniture into the sea: http://grapevine.is/news/2015/11/01/caught-on-film-throwing-furniture-off-a-cliff/ http://grapevine.is/news/2015/11/01/caught-on-film-throwing-...
- mipapage 11y agoI see people here in Spain do this too. I suppose the thinking is that there are people who clean the streets every night, so why not just discard whatever wherever you want! So much for being responsible about yourself and your actions. And while some do argue the 'keeping people in a job' line, others don't even realise the harm in what they are doing and at the same time don't even try and rationalize it.
- SixSigma 11y agoLouis C.K. One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street … I was with a friend who said to me, “You just littered on the street! Don’t you care about the environment?” And I thought about it, and I said, “You know what? This isn’t the environment. This is New York City … New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it’s the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin’, stinkin’ piece of litter.