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Oceans are big and mysterious, but land is right here and if you go to just about any forest from California to Vermont, you'll stumble on human garbage about r
by yostrovs 8y ago
Oceans are big and mysterious, but land is right here and if you go to just about any forest from California to Vermont, you'll stumble on human garbage about roughly every thirty steps. Cans, bags, shotgun shells, shoes, buckets, really just about anything. And same for inland waterways. And yet besides Earth Day, it doesn't get cleaned up. I put fault on the abstract environmentalism we practice. This is easily done with cheap resources, yet so much is spent on meetings, treaties, awareness and education, science and studies, etc.
Edit: To make things less abstract, I now tend to bring a plastic bag on walks in the woods to collect the litter.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoOn average maybe. Trash drops off sharply once you get beyond what's a reasonable day trip from a major urban area.
- yostrovs 8y agoTrash being so close to so many people should be even more reason for it to be picked up. You don't have to travel to the middle of the Pacific to collect it. Yet old cans with pull off tops are still common in the ground in popular outdoors areas.
- house9-2 8y ago> I now tend to bring a plastic bag on walks in the woods to collect the litter. wear gloves
- astura 8y agoBetter yet, get a grabber.