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I don't think corporations are solely to blame. In Japan they use a lot of plastic packaging[0], and have a lack of public rubbish bins[1], yet they don't litte

by koube 7y ago

I don't think corporations are solely to blame. In Japan they use a lot of plastic packaging[0], and have a lack of public rubbish bins[1], yet they don't litter[2]. Can we not hold customers accountable as well for not disposing of their garbage properly, as they do in Japan? [0]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd573w/japans-excessive-packaging-fetish-299 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd573w/japans-excessive-p... [1]: https://jpninfo.com/54373 https://jpninfo.com/54373 [2]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/why-japanese-dont-litter/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/why-japanese-dont-lit...

PetahNZ 7y ago
They also fine you up to $5,000 and give you community service if you litter.
- anonymous5133 7y ago
  Same goes for Singapore. Crime to littler and also the culture there values cleanliness of the city. When I was there I almost never saw trash on the ground, ever. I once saw a plastic cup get blown off some lady's table and the next person who was working on the street who saw it picked it up and tossed it in the trash bin. Public trash bins are everywhere. Absolutely a world-class city in every sense of it.
  - ethbro 7y ago
    Jetlagged in Tokyo one morning (maybe 4:30 AM local), I watched a lady open her eatery. She cleaned and readied everything inside, swept the front curb of her shop, then proceeded to perfectly sweep the ~10' wide sidewalk in front of her place to the street's edge. How Tokyo lives with its hyperdensity suddenly made sense.
- ethbro 7y ago
  From an individual's point of view: they also fine you up to $5,000 and give you community service if you get caught littering.
  - siedes 7y ago
    Good thing in Japan, even if one or two people litter, there's at least 100 other fine people who will be there to pick up after you happily without even thinking about it. Man I'd love that here in the US
astazangasta 7y ago
I would pay at least $5 per item never to see Styrofoam packaging again. But this is impossible because the market is incapable of offering me this sort of thing. Putting it on consumers is unfair.

by koube 7y ago

PetahNZ 7y ago

They also fine you up to $5,000 and give you community service if you litter.

anonymous5133 7y ago
Same goes for Singapore. Crime to littler and also the culture there values cleanliness of the city. When I was there I almost never saw trash on the ground, ever. I once saw a plastic cup get blown off some lady's table and the next person who was working on the street who saw it picked it up and tossed it in the trash bin. Public trash bins are everywhere. Absolutely a world-class city in every sense of it.
- ethbro 7y ago
  Jetlagged in Tokyo one morning (maybe 4:30 AM local), I watched a lady open her eatery. She cleaned and readied everything inside, swept the front curb of her shop, then proceeded to perfectly sweep the ~10' wide sidewalk in front of her place to the street's edge. How Tokyo lives with its hyperdensity suddenly made sense.
ethbro 7y ago
From an individual's point of view: they also fine you up to $5,000 and give you community service if you get caught littering.
- siedes 7y ago
  Good thing in Japan, even if one or two people litter, there's at least 100 other fine people who will be there to pick up after you happily without even thinking about it. Man I'd love that here in the US

astazangasta 7y ago

I would pay at least $5 per item never to see Styrofoam packaging again. But this is impossible because the market is incapable of offering me this sort of thing. Putting it on consumers is unfair.