It’s an enforcement and public cleanup issue everywhere, but some are worse than others. Anytime the cost is > $0 (and it always is! Even if the actual cost at

It’s an enforcement and public cleanup issue everywhere, but some are worse than others. Anytime the cost is > $0 (and it always is! Even if the actual cost at the dump is $0, transport takes time and money), there is an incentive to be lazy and just dump stuff wherever. It’s not uncommon in rural areas that someone even has a dump ‘hole’ on their property in many places, due to the time and cost of making a trip to the actual dump. Fines often help (digging through trash to find out whose stuff it is has real benefits if you can turn around and fine someone for it!), as does social pressure. It never completely stops happening though, which is why public cleanups also are important sometimes (see broken window theory, which isn’t completely wrong!).