The forest center near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area

there is a bin in the café according to you lmao.
this is ridiculous tbh, protecting wildlife is more important than your convenience in that place lmao, you're annoyed that you have to walk inside to throw your trash?? wtf lol.
- The only problem with the bins that got removed had with wildlife was when wasps nested in them one year. They had sprung loaded flaps

They just don’t want to pay people to empty the bins. Defunding. DEFUNDING!

"we don't want to pay human beings to do the necessary work created by our business, so we're offloading it to you."
- fwiw removing trash cans and promoting not littering is proven to reduce litter.
  It’s people that suck generally
  
  Can you cite this source? It's my personal experience that people will just drop things on the ground if there's not a convenient trash can.
  
  there's no way that's true... you mean people who can't hold on to waste until they see a garbage can, instead will hold on to it until they go home? doesn't even make sense

Growing up in the 60s, we saw anti-littering commercials, called PSAs (Public Service Announcements),on TV every day. Ask any older American what they remember about those PSAs, and they will say "The crying Indian."
Today, they never show those anymore, and i am seeing young people littering as a result. I was recently in a fast food lot, and saw a car pull in, a young guy about 20 get out, and throw a bunch old fast food trash into the bushes, then walk into the restaurant. He passed a trash can next to the door on his way in, where he could have tossed his trash, but he just tossed it in the bushes instead.
I collected up the trash, and set it on the hood of his fancy hot rod.
I've seen plenty of similar examples in the last few years, because young people dont see those PSAs telling them not to, and even their parents havent been educated to teach them.
- I remember those commercials they ran into the early 80's. Peter Sarstdet song in the background
- I was born in the early 90s but I saw those PSAs in school. We were taught very early that littering is not only immoral but illegal. We were pretty much scared into thinking of the environment. I like that approach. Made me respect the environment into my adulthood
- Idk, that was before my time and it just seems common sense to me to not litter 🤷‍♂️ the trash doesn't just disappear and it will become someone else's problem.
  It feels to me a lot of people don't care if it becomes someone else's problem and that mentality goes through all parts of their lives.
  
  And that was the secondary effect of PSAs like the litter campaign. The underlying message was that we are all in this together, we have to live with each other, so lets try to clean up after ourselves because it benefits us all.
  That message being burned in our brains at such a young age contributed to our sense of pride in America. Today, it's just everyone for themselves.
- I've seen mongoloids throw trash on the floor while they stood less than a foot away from the trashcan. Should've thrown him in the trash.

There is a potentially good way to do this, ensure the cafe uses minimal packaging and what packaging is used is compostable. Then just have compost bins.

The only way this will work is if humans behave in ways that no human has ever humaned
- There are countries where this is culturally how litter is managed. Japan is a fully developed example - bins are hard to come by, everyone brings their trash with them.
  It can be done.
  
  Unless they are in a car, take a walk along one of the less used roads and you will find empty food containers and piss bottles galore
  
  If there is a bin I will use it, if not I will take it home.
  If you don't you are scum and deserve to be pilloried in the town square.
  
  While it can be done you have to have a focus on the group over the individual like Japan for It to happen. The main issue faced in most of the countries where litter would be an issue are ones that are more indiviualistic. So you have to upend the entire culture of a country and move its focus off of self and onto the whole. Can it be done? Eventually. Will it be done? Not likely.
  So for now, there should be bins. Lol
- People who go to trails are not gaurnteed, but are more likely to care about the environment they traveled to go to. Mostly.

Pack in, Pack out.

Sounds to me like they just dont want to empty the bins any more. I suspect after a few months of picking rubbish off the floor, the bins will be back.
Or not and everyone will complain and stop going.

It's been this way as long as I can remember down at Moors Valley. From my limited observations there, it surprisingly works much better than you might expect.
- Yeah I have seen a lot of trash cans in public parks that get ransacked by wildlife. Raccoons or even crows throwing all the trash out to get into a bag of fast food.
  If someone can carry loaded food packaging in they should bring their own bag and pack it all out. It is probably better to lighten the load on the forestry workers by having a smaller number of receptacles available.
  I wouldn't be mildly infuriated by this at all. I try to pick up any trash I see anyhow. It is convenient but doesn't bother me if I take it home and get rid of it there .
  
  You said carry in. OP said this is a cafe, so not carried in. Acquired on site = disposed on site.

We survive that way in Japan with almost no bins. Of course the odd person litters, but most don't; if we can pack it in, we can pack it out. Now, if there were no bin inside the cafe, that would be idiotic.
- I do have the impression that Japanese people have a much stronger "social responsibility" with public stuff compared to most westerners.
  
  Whilst this is not wrong and shame is a big motivator in Japan, some otherwise bored cops fining literers for a while would probably prevent that situation. On the other hand, I think maintaining some bins (infra to install and hardware + maintenance cleaning and maybe the odd security check) would be cheaper, beeter, and friendlier
  
  *all westerners
  Really. Japanese society has a lot of issues on its own, but there's also a lot to learn from them.

The places with the fewest places to deposit one's trash are always the ones with the most litter. Always.
If someone wants another person to adapt a behavior, from a purely practical standpoint, that person must make the other person's job easier or it will simply not work to get them to adapt. If this wasn't a forest (such as it is, it being the UK), the only proper thing to do would be to dump as much trash there as possible while demanding the bins back until they get the message and cave in. I could write a whole book here about how the packaging industry paid lobbyists and PR firms to put the blame on consumers for the useless crap they make existing in the first place, and shaming them into keeping it out of sight and thus out of mind. I won't. But it's a tale vile enough that it convinced me that there's a time and a place for littering as protest. The woods aren't the place.
Besides, there ARE receptacles that are critter resistant. This is an absolute cop out, and seeing how landscaped the area is, a couple of bins would hardly scar the landscape. This is pure crap. I looked the place up, and it's NOT the kind of place where you deny people trash receptacles, nor is it the kind of place you can credibly base your argument on "we don't want animals to get used to people". Good lord, what a bunch of idiocy.

"To support our commitment to reducing the number of covid cases, we have elected to discontinue counting them. We kindly ask all infected to kindly die at home."
- Skip that last sentence.
  
  Maybe in some nations.

This is an interesting read:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494421001225?via=ihub
For some context: This paper discusses how more trash cans negatively impact how people perceive a natural space, but removing them without providing effective signage may increase litter.
A combination of effective signage and having easily accessible bins (for staff to maintain) near park entries and exits lowered the amount of litter and improved how people perceived the natural space.

One problem with outside bins is that the wildlife is naturally drawn to them and the contents can be damaging to them as well as desensitising animals to people, plus things like squirrels and birds will pull rubbish out of the bins and spread it around.
- Why not put that on the sign then instead of some vague, unrelated bollocks that doesn't justify the removal? If that's the case then I feel the wording on the sign is borderline dishonest.
- You can have wildlife proof bins.

"We don't have enough funds to make the guys do that route, what do we do? what did you say Shannon? masquerade it as taking care of the environment? that's fantastic"
- Hey ChatGPT, I'm a dork who works for a local council and we are cutting costs by removing two bins from a local forestry. Can you come up with a sign that spins the removal of these bins into a positive?

I used to work for the Woodland Trust and believe that this is the right thing to do. Bins in woodlands do not get emptied often and will often overflow and attract unwanted pests like rats. Rats will also eat the eggs of ground nesting birds and cause other environmental issues.
If they are selling food on site then the food vendor should have a bin that their customers can use inside their cabin/cafe and dispose of the waste daily as part of the service.
- Bins in woodlands do not get emptied often and will often overflow
  Think I found the problem— why not do the obvious thing and empty them more often?
  
  Genuine answer here, as someone who volunteers for the parks. A lot of times the budgets are tight, depending on whose responsibility it is to clean up the area and what services are there/nearby, the staffing just isn't available. Yeah it's a pretty easy thing to do in theory, but in practice when it becomes "okay and 2 hours of your shift is driving out there and emptying the cans" it's not a far leap to just "Remove the cans, make the snack stand dispose of their garbage on their own"
  I mean I get it, the cans are nice but also, like you're an adult. Throw your trash away on your own.
  "But then people will throw it on the ground!" Okay then pay someone to stand out there and slap every idiot that thinks littering is okay because they couldn't find a can in 10 seconds.
  It's common decency in plenty of places around the world to take your garbage with you until you find a can. It's not hard.
  
  Who’s gonna do it and pay for it?
  If people weren’t such babies and cleaned up after themselves, we wouldn’t need to waste taxpayers money on cleaning up after adults who could do it themselves.
  
  Because that would mean employing someone to empty them regularly, and as most woodland is few and far between in this country most woodland owners deem that an unnecessary expense.
- This is right by the cafe/site office/car park though. The reception desk is about 20m to the left and staffed during daylight hours year round.
  Not like it's in the middle of nowhere.
  I get your point, there are very few bins elsewhere (mostly by the other car parks) and that's fine. It's just that the place that gives you rubbish makes it hard to responsibly get rid of it.
  
  May I ask the name of this place? I'd like to pull it up on Google Maps and have a look at the layout.
  
  Isn't there a bin at the cafe?
  
  It's not like paper and plastic wrappers are heavy or bulky. Just hold onto it or put it your pocket until you get home or find a bin elsewhere.
- So empty them.
  
  Just take your garbage home.

This is the reason given in Australia by Parks Victoria
LEAVE NO TRACE
Advocate for minimal-impact practices wherever you go. Many people are surprised to find no bins in national parks. Waste attracts native animals, which can change their natural behaviour and harm both natural and cultural sites, as well as your personal belongings.
Always bring rubbish bags (and one for your neighbour) and take all your rubbish home. Help educate others about the importance of leaving the park pristine, minimising your impact on the delicate balance of the ecosystem.
- Have a fence, sign, benches seems pretty antithetical to LNT.
  
  Different country, different styles I guess.
  
  Yeah, they threw LNT straight out the window and down the open manhole with flames shooting out of it with great delight. If you search for pics of the place, claiming "leave no trace" is beyond farcical.
- I feel like you want more trash cans not less. Make it easy for people to clean up after themselves

I was walkin' through the forest
And a sign said they removed the bins to produce less rubbish
"We kindly ask all visitors to take their litter home!"
Man, what do I look like, a garbage bin?
I threw it on the ground!

That's not how human behavior works...
Someone thinks they're very clever and they aren't.

Gentrified forest is the most cursed phrase I heard in a minute.
- I think it's a pretty good description. Has a tarmac car park, cafe, bike hire, 3 go ape routes, wheelchair accessible routes and until recently, bins!
  
  You should look up the definition of “gentrification.” There are a ton of options that don’t suggest that the homeless people in the forest are being forced out and replaced with wealthier homeless people.
  Maybe “commercialized” would be a better word choice? Alternatively, “developed” or “sanitized?”
  
  It's like wilderness for Europeans!
- Old people have moved there and the prices have skyrocketed.

Wait, so there are bins inside and they don't want bins outside because it's a wildlife area?
Sounds like OP's a little lazy, this is a very understandable change
- But they sell disposable items, likely for profit. They can't have a system to dispose of trash in a responsible manner?
  
  Most of these places, at least in Canada, are strictly operated as not-for-profit establishments, with focus on as little actual litter as possible. So no plastic lids or straws, no packaging. Wooden stir sticks, brown paper bags, etc. Local produce only. While these decompose easily, it's still unsightly, so most of Parcs Canada / SEPAQ doesn't have bins outside either.
  I'd be disappointed if this were not the way that things are being done in England.
  
  Sounds like they have bins inside. That is responsible no?
  You have the right to purchase something, doesn't mean you have the right of convenience.
- Is only mildly annoying. Lots of people asking where the bins though.
  I can see a lot of paper cups being left in tables etc
- What inside? Inside at your home maybe.

...huh? They want to cut down on litter by removing the convenient locations for people to dispose their would-be litter?
Fuck there are some incredibly fucking stupid people in charge of places right now...
- Thats what they do in Japan and it suuuuucks so bad. By far my least favorite thing about the country. It's so annoying to carry trash around and the few bins that exist are so tiny and always overflowing.
  People praise Japan for cleanliness but let me tell you it's not because of the lack of trash bins but because people genuinely care about spaces and more bins would just make that easier.
  
  This is gospel truth and people downvoting this are delusional.

Geniuses have no understanding of how some people can be dirty.

I fully support the choice to remove the bins. I visited a beauty spot in Scotland recently that has a coffee van in the carpark. The young couple I took there went to add their empty cups to the already overflowing bin, and were baffled when I insisted they take them to the car, which was ten steps away. "But there's a bin!" Yes you numpties, and the wind is already spreading its contents everywhere. Be part of the solution, not the problem.

I'd give this some odds of reducing trash pollution. It can seem frustrating, but it MAY change people's behavior in a way that reduces litter. Behavioral economics can be counterintuitive.
EDIT: What matters is the result. If this makes more people litter, they should probably bring back the bins. If this reduces litter, they should keep it this way, regardless of how inconvenient or "stupid" you the reader find it.
- No. Most people just start littering when there's no trash bins nearby.
  
  Think of the stupidest person you know, etc etc.
  
  They're shit people. I take cans home to recycle because we don't have proper recycling at my workplace.
- If you operate a business that sells things in paper plates and wrappers, you certainly have a moral responsibility to have waste receptacles to collect those waste products.
  The problem isn't that a park lacks trash cans. The problem is that a cafe removed their trash bins.
  
  I feel the same way, but about places that sell coffee having an obligation to provide a public bathroom.
  Glares angrily at 7-11
  
  The he cafe still has bins inside, they have a way to collect their refuse.
  The park removed the bins since people from the cafe weee likely overfilling it.
  Where does the sign say the cafe removed them…? The sign is from the ministry of forestry and speaks only for what they did. Remove the park bins.

That might sound backwards but it isn't
Squirrels and raccoons will rummage, and disperse trash. There isnt much you can do about that beyond 1. Harm wildlife or 2. Reduce trash.
Edit: Damn, this thread is full of people I would be fucking embarrassed to camp with. Where do y'all like to experience the outdoors so I can be sure to not cross your paths?
- Or 3, provide animal-proof garbage disposals.
  
  I can attest that people around me in the south talk about how they love nature but if opening the trash can requires more than 3 brain cells they will most likely just throw their in the back of their truck and know it will blow out down the road or drop it next to the trash can and be proud they are keeping some custodial staff employed
  
  Or
  4. Continue to treat people as spoiled toddlers and hire servants to clean up after them.
  
  🙄
  Or just like, pollute less and stop relying on others to clean up after you.
  Especially when you leave your home.
  
  And when it’s full or people still don’t want to walk 20 feet to them?
  Also nothing is “animal proof” it’s all resistant and reliant on humans not being asses. Which they always prove they are when it comes to garbage.
  Providing garbages doesn’t make people use them…
- I'll go out on a limb that Raccoons won't rummage here :)
  I agree with the sentiment but if they have a cafe selling things in disposable packaging then the best thing they can do is provide bins to deal with it. Pretending they don't generate rubbish is just a false accounting trick.
- No racoons here. The previous bins had spring loaded flaps to keep the animals out.
- There aren't many wild camping spots in the UK, especially in forests. Definitely no raccoons either haha. This area would be more for walking or picnicking.
- Or 3) change the garbage regularly on a bin with a latching lid. (common in forested areas)
  This isn't just a random bit of forest either, it's near a shop that's providing the public with a bunch of disposable items like paper cups and napkins. Not providing somewhere to dispose of those is inevitability going to lead to people leaving their garbage behind.

Just throw it on the ground
the general public, probably
- I'M AN ADULT
- Did you mean throw?
- All the regulars will because fuck you. It not about the environment. It's about them "cutting costs"

please clean up after yourself.

So bring our own bin and pickup the stuff other people dropped as well?

Weird, when Japan does it everyone praises them. I guess us western societies are just too trashy to clean up after ourselves.
- I came here to comment on Japan, haha. Almost everywhere you go, no trashcans and no trash! Their society is like a hive mind in a lot of ways, though. I’m not sure it’ll work with Rugged American Individualism®
  Edit to add: Damn, I just realized OP is in England. Maybe they can make it work.
  
  I looked it up and they seem to still have them in train stations plus in areas where trash/recyclables is expected to be generated (convenience stores, vending machines, parks) so it seems like a bit of a stretch (also the reason for less trash cans being a 1995 sarin gas attack).
  Even just the train station bit seems like an unfair comparison for places without any sort of public transportation (where people walked/biked from home). Yeah, I can see people being more likely to hold their trash if passing receptacles is part of their planned route.
- Japan takes the garbage bins away from cafes?
  
  No they're there, however there aren't trash bins once you leave the food vendor. If you walk away then you're responsible for the trash. So people just finish eating and dispose the trash there. Even if it's a stall or food truck, you can hand your trash back to the staff, they will happily accept it.
  If it's for carry-out, people will pack their trash for disposal at home (you'll see a ton of people walking around with backpacks and totebags).
  Yeah for this reason, you don't see this culture of eating/drinking while on-the-go in Japan lol. It's too inconvenient. It's something that tourists have to adjust to. But it's nice - the country is very clean and beautiful, no trash in sight. You might see some little old lady picking up a piece of trash that isn't even hers lol. That's the pride they take in their country.
  Also there's an important difference in Japan that should be mentioned. A lot of the success is due to shame culture. You will feel like a bad person and get the side-eye for littering.
  As far as this sign in England - I think suddenly taking away all the trash bins for a place that relies on them would be a disaster! But if that's the plan, then maybe taking only some away here and there could work over time. People need to be trained after all lol.
  Source: I spent 1.5 months in Japan
  
  I've never been to a Japanese cafe, but knowing what I know about them from Japanese acquaintances, yeah, mostly.
  They'd probably either use actual dishware that is returned and washed, or yes, expect people to bring disposable waste home with them. Everything I've heard is that public trash bins are not non-existent, but they are rare.
  
  Lots of corner stores and vending machines in Japan that sell basically full meals and no trash can in sight.
  I don't think people realize that custodial staff are different than general park staff. If they have bins then they need to deal with that whole process and have at least one dedicated employee. I'd rather have to carry my trash and let the park use that money elsewhere.
  For what it's worth, I do agree it's probably "gentrification" in the sense that the concept of carry in/carry out is more prevalent in middle class communities, mostly because they are more likely to engage in hobbies where or go to places where it's a more prevalent part of the culture. I'm not sure non-middle class people have the same experiences/lifestyle that lead to thinking this makes sense to do.
- Everyone praises them? The only times Ive heard (from westerners visiting/moving there) is that it is very annoying that there is never anywhere to throw away their trash
  
  Different experiences then, because most people I've spoken to about it there and back home have talked about how clean it was despite that and commended the society for being so responsible with their waste.

This has been happening in New Zealand for a while. The theory seems to be that bins attract more litter and are a hazard to wildlife.
I was sceptical at first but it actually seems to work.
Perturbs me that they are selling food though. Surely yhe food sellers should have bins for which they are responsible in their immediate vicinity.
- How do trash cans attract more litter?
  
  I don't know. I haven't seen the research.
  I was alarmed by it at first but it's been a few years now and the parks where I go which used to have them don't seem any more littered fwiw. If anything less so.
  But that's anecdotal and as I understand it the decision was made based on more than that.
- I don't think it works. I think the resulting litter is just more distributed and therefore harder to register. Instead of an overflowing trash can, it's a napkin here, a cup there, and a lot of it ends up eaten by wildlife or in waterways so not very visible.
  
  Idk, it looks like it works (or maybe people are just getting better at not littering and it correlates), but this is one of those things that can be measured so I'd trust department of conservation research over my own anecdotal evidence.
  
  No, a lot of people are actual decent human beings and understand the simple concept of packing out your own garbage.
  If someone sees a full garbage, they aren’t suddenly going to become a decent person, no they add to the pile making it worse. Don’t give them that option, and well most people actually turn decent. Since to throw it on the ground and get caught is different than just “adding to the pile”. It’s amazing what a little public embarrassment can fix.

Just take your own rubbish home
- there should be a rule that, if you sell stuff, which produces rubbis - you have to provide enough bins for said trash.
  
  In my opinion in forests or nature parks everyone has the responsibility to behave respectful towards nature. This means do not even cause rubbish. If someone wants to sell stuff, then do not sell disposables. Instead serv in glasses or similar. On the other hand people should not buy disposables in nature parks. Just bring your own stuff e.g. thermos flask.
  
  Yes, if they sell crisps, or coffee in a disposable cup, but don't give you somewhere to dispose of the packet/cup, that's a little unfair, but ultimately not that much of a burden, and if it is, don't buy the crisps, buy something else e.g. a sandwich that comes on a plate with no wrapper.
  They should advertise at point of sale that there are no bins and you have to take your rubbish with you.
  
  I think there's a lot of franchised businesses that do use this philosophy.

It's like my university campus removing all ashtrays to stop people from smoking.
- In the US they could just restrict smoking areas

When I was visiting England I remember my grandpa and I walking around London looking for a trash can and being shocked at how rare they were compared to the US
- One reason that the UK has few trash cans is because of the IRA, a ~~terrorist organization~~[edit: paramilitary organization] that would plant bombs in them. It is kind of a sore point when Americans notice stuff like this, because US citizens were significant donors to the IRA.
  N.B. There isn't a reason why you should know this.
  source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1cxsvp/how_prevalent_was_american_funding_of_the_irish/

Think it's a mentality as well.
Had a friend in high school and after the drive in we went to, I cleaned up my trash and threw it away. My friend said "why are you doing that, they pay people to do that" and proceeded to leave her trash.
Didn't stay friends, but who the f thinks that way?
Entitled Amerikkkans.... that's who.
Pick up your own trash.
Not other people's trash.
YOUR OWN.
- I will absolutely pick up other peoples trash if it’s somewhere like the wilderness. They should have picked it up themselves but I’m there now and that trash shouldn’t be there.
  
  Me too....I bring bags with me and clean up places I hike / fish / camp....I try to leave places better than when I found it and it absolutely irks me when people can't be bothered to throw their own trash away.
  I guess it wasn't clear that I think it's ridiculous that people can't even pick up their own trash.
- You sound like tool
  
  Ahahahahahahaha

This is basically ubiquitous on many public lands, specifically here in the US. The term is "carry in, carry out." Bins accumulate trash (obviously) which in turn is an attractant for rodents, bears, raccoons, etc. which causes its own problems. Wild animals should not be artificially fed by human trash. Trash can also be blown out of cans, or scattered by animals. Overall, especially for low traffic environments, the best plan is to have people take all their trash out with them.
TL;DR: Pack out your trash.
- The problem is parks can't or won't hire enough people to empty the bins out.
  
  Because the people paying taxes would rather that money go to actual tangible benefits instead of paying for people’s laziness.
  You’re the kind of person who doesn’t return their cart because someone “is paid to do it” aren’t you.

You can always take your trash with you instead of expecting someone else to take it for you. The culture of throwing shit away instead of reusing, and reducing, is so ubiquitous, that's the infuriating thing.
- They should give me tea in a mug instead of a waxed paper cup (and plastic lid!) then!
  
  Does the cafe not have a bin?
  I'm not sure if it's a thing by you, but it's common where I live to carry your own thermos.

It mildly infuriates me that you can't see the logic in taking your rubbish with you when you leave.
- While this is the ideal outcome, in reality people are just going to throw their trash in the bushes.
  
  People who do this already did even when bins were still there. Because placing rubbish into pocket or backpack is so hard!
  
  And they should be fined for dumping.
- Saying they are committed to producing no rubbish on site on a sign, then selling things that result in rubbish, is hypocritical.
  
  Do you have an example of something that would be sold that had no resulting rubbish?
- I can see taking things that I brought with me like granola bar wrappers and water bottles, but if you have a cafe selling cheeseburgers, fountain drinks, and coffee, it seems dumb to expect people to carry all that home rather than allowing them to throw it away at the same place they bought and consumed it.
  
  Yeah but the Cafe does have bins inside. It's just the park that removed the public waste bins.
- You're weird for not knowing the OP's actual point?
- It's a cafe area; they are giving you trash with your meal/drink, not providing a bin for it, then expecting you to pack it out.
  Expecting people to packout the garbage they brought with them is one thing (that still doesn't get followed); but if you're going to provide the public with trash, you've gotta give them somewhere to dispose of it.
  
  The cafe has bins. OP amended the post admitting that they do. The bins are inside, but either way, they do exist.

That's not how this works.

Why can’t they have a dumpster with lid?
People are just going to litter if they didn’t plan ahead to bring a trash bag.
- They had some reasonably nice bins with wooden shells around them and spring loaded doors to keep the birds etc out.

If you're planning a picnic, you bring your own trash bags, sort your trash, and dispose of it properly. And you will eventually make the effort to produce less rubbish, for example, ask to take your order without napkins or a plastic bag.
- You operate a cafe and sell stuff that is trash 5 minutes later? You print a trash bin.

Looks like the bean-counters thought they could easily axe the trash cost by shoving onto everyone else. I doubt it will increase the natural beauty there.

Don't buy anything at the cafe if you're not prepared to carry it out, I wouldn't.

Performative capitalism + fake environmentalism at it's worst. Ugh.
- We all know there are plenty of trash cans available in non-capitalist societies, and everyone takes turns emptying them.
- Dont know what you mean by performative capitalism, but carry in carry out is pretty standard fare environmentalism. Though these people are not carrying in, they are making the decision to buy onsite and should then accept carry out responsibilities.

See how much garbage you can stack on/wedge into the sign before they put bins back there.
- I think the site office has a post box
  
  That's just a hassle for the postal service and people sending mail; they undoubtedly have nothing to do with this. (tampering with mail is also a felony...)

We have a commitment to producing no rubbish on-site. Well, we had one, but then budget cuts took away our garbage bins, so now I guess you have a commitment to producing no rubbish on-site.

I'm on board with this. Don't bring rubbish into woodland areas; and if you do bring it - take it back with you.
I'm sure the bins were very convenient - but its a convenience that only helps you leave trash in the woodland for someone else to collect. And as others have pointed out, the rubbish can cause problems even if it is all put in the bin.
So yeah, I can see that it is mildly frustrating - but I don't think 'take your rubbish home' is too much of an ask.
- Yeah, I agree but if you know anything about human behavior, you would realize all this paragraph you wrote was for nothing because people are going to do what people do
  
  I've just come back from a holiday which involved lots of hiking in mountains and woodlands. It's rare to see bins out there, and yet somehow the places are clean. But please tell me more about human behaviour. Getting insulted by strangers on the internet is so fun.

Translation: we fired the guy that empties the trash, it's your job now.
- I get it if the trash can is a mile up the trail. I have a problem when they take away a trash can next to a picnic area.

Even Wait Disney knew this doesn't work
- Walt Disney was a capitalist charging admission to a controlled capitalist environment. This is public land that we all collectively own and should care for. Trash bins add to overhead and are bad for surrounding wildlife. We can all just do our part. We owe Disney nothing. We owe the land and our society everything. Big difference.

So they're creating litter that they can bay about and use to make the park a members-only place.

LEAVE NO TRACE