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I live in the suburbs, where littering isn't a matter of dropping something on the ground, but literally throwing it out your car window in preference to just l
by CWuestefeld 3y ago
I live in the suburbs, where littering isn't a matter of dropping something on the ground, but literally throwing it out your car window in preference to just leaving it on your own floor until you get home.
And I get my exercise partly through daily walks. At least once a week I take a trash bag with me and clean the entire street from the start to my house, a distance of just about 0.2 miles[1]. In about a week, that 0.2 miles (on both sides) typical gets a shopping bad mostly full. The contents are almost entirely from beverages with a little bit of other stuff mixed in. And of those beverages, a large proportion are alcoholic - beer, hard cider, those little bottles they give you on airplanes. Yes, people are making themselves some kind of vodka cocktail in the car.
So my personal experience is that the people littering overlaps significantly with people with bad drinking habits.
[1] I leave the part beyond my house to anyone else who wants to help.