I wonder why people litter in the USA?

In Japan it's almost impossible to find a trash can on the streets and yet people don't litter. The problem is the culture centered around consumerism and waste.

Get what you pay for. The minimum wage is still 7.25 federally. I can’t believe employers just choose not to pay livable wages.

Lose me with this “nobody wants to work anymore” bullshit. Nobody wants to pay anymore.

Or, hear me out... carry it until you find one with room? If finding full trash cans "forces" you to litter, that says more about you being an entitled piece of shit than it does about anything else.

Personally, if I see a full trash can I will keep my trash with me until I can find a place to dispose of it. I can’t imagine just throwing it on the ground regardless of the can situation.

I feel like the solution to having some trash while the trash can is full, is to...just carry it with you till you find an empty one?

This post gives me "people don't want to work anymore" vibes.

Another way to look at it is, people don't want to pay people to work anymore. Either the pay is such shit that the employees have no incentive to give a crap, or the employer doesn't hire enough people to get the work done.

There's a litter bin near my house in a rural area that the council has obviously forgotten about. It's been full for weeks!

You should see the amount of litter scattered around

Oh wait, it's absolutely none, because we're not fucking selfish savages

No fucking excuses for littering, ever. That's a societal problem, not a bin problem

Maybe we should reduce the amount of shit we have to throw away.

But also maybe pay the garbage men fairly, and tell the business or municipality that the garbage collection is insufficient for their needs.

Perhaps one should ask why there is so much trash to be thrown away in the first place.

Bins wouldn't always be full if there was simply less trash to put in them.

Meanwhile in Japan public trash cans are extremely rare and people are expected to bring their trash home and throw it away there. And they do. We are just a spoiled society.

To be fair, I work at a job where I need to empty trash cans and I can honestly say I don't get paid enough to haul y'alls shit off to the dumpster. Y'all put dumb shit in there that you shouldn't be putting in there. It's at the point where I take my trash home with me.

That’s no excuse for littering - but it is super annoying.

There’s a dunks near me that moved its trash out of the drive in line WAAAAAAY over to the other side of the parking lot. Intentionally, so that I don’t bother them by throwing away, you know, the bag and napkins they give you.

That was the straw that broke the camels back - I just make my coffee now in the morning. It’s 1/100th the price and aggravation.

You should be more angry at the throwaway society we've become to create so much trash, rather than rant at the person who might be the sole employee until someone else comes in to do the regular morning cleanup duties.

So you think some full trash cans cause people to head out to the interstate and only then throw shit out their window? Guess they're making a statement or something...

When the convenience store only has one employee, even often during peak times, that has to run the register, stock shelves, clean, and take out the trash, in that priority order, is it any wonder that the lower priority tasks just don't get done at all?

Maybe you should try to do the job of the trash collectors for a week and see if it's really honest to say "Its unbelievable people go to work and choose not to do their job anymore".

Most jobs have lunatics in leadership positions who think people can survive on exposure or gift cards or a minimum wage that cannot afford 3 healthy meals a day.

"Unskilled Labour" is a lie told by business people to swindle money from hardworking people. Most of the rich people on the planet are scoundrels.

Bro I remember in Japan there were almost no trash cans anywhere. We fuckin lucky here

Keep it in your pocket. Not really hard tbh.
Of course other humans are trashy :/

If you treat people like trash, don't be surprised if they turn out to be garbage.

"I litter because the trash can was full"

And you're trying to think about perceived societal problems. How about introspection?

It's a societal problem.

https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-shibuya/article-a0002380/

It's infuriating that we have so much trash that needs throwing away. Most of those cans were probably empty in the morning.

This just seems like a lot of words for the same ol' no one wants to work anymore bullshit

People should take their trash home. It's great for awareness.

Just dump the can out on the ground and put your own trash in. Now you don't have to litter!

Don't worry once we get AI to take care of this we don't need those useless employees that we didn't hire to do the jobs to do the jobs anymore!

/s

Same in the UK :-(

They probably emptied them when they opened and it’s been busy since it’s the morning rush.

But sure bitch and moan since you think they’re lazy instead of probably slammed by people like you wasting their time.

If they took time to empty it people like you would just bitch there’s a lineup instead, can’t ever be pleased eh?

Many times you can compact that stuff down with minimal effort. Just use the bag or whatever you're throwing away so that you aren't touching the other garbage with your hand.

This likely isn't a matter of people "not doing their job". Did you communicate that there was a problem with those trash cans being full? Likely, no one else did, either. Since everyone seems to expect everyone else to complain?

A similar thought process, even though I agree with your original sentiment that we need to have trash cans available: If you would have "done your job" and communicated, there may have been 4 more trash cans available.

Same reason they leave all their garbage in movie theaters

Maybe they are due to be emptied later. 8am is quite early.

I could put trash in the bin for money.

I swear there are less garbage cans in public areas now than 15 years ago. It's probably my fault for for doing quick car cleans and dumping at every gas station and retail store.

Side note: garbage is expensive these days

Also in your country they say "trash" to things they are done with. Like oh you don't like this toy any more? It's trash now. Oh, the bag of jerky is empty? This plastic has completed it's cycle now and will have to be let go to circle the Atlantic