When I smoked cigarettes, I would roll the cherry off and stick the butt in my pocket and carry it until I saw a trash can. The cretins at my work who leave cig butts on the ground make me sick. I saw one drop his butt in a garden planter the other day. A trash can was ten feet away. Assholes.
When I was still smoking, I always forgot my little portable ashtray, so I did this a lot. My pants were abysmally smelly - but I can’t stand cigarette littering.
Did you ever accidentally set your pants on fire or melt a hole through polyester? This is a real question, by the way, I have no idea whether cigarette butts are still burninating when you’re done with them.
Not the commenter, but you roll the burning part off. The remaining tobacco burns into ash and there’s no (real) littering. It is a form of pollution, but it sort of blows away.
Usually, I would squat down, press it against the concrete to put it out, then wait for a few seconds to make sure it’s not glimmering any more, then put it in my back pants pocket.
I have always found the concept of littering bizzare. And not from a “do what is right” perspective.
“Do you not understand that it will be there basically your entire life, unless someone picks it up!? Every time you walk by, you will see that wrapper you just threw on the ground for months and years. You have pockets!”
Those people don’t even care about that. If it massed up in a pile outside their house, but not in an area they used, they’d walk right past it every morning. Plus (to them, anyway), that wrapper won’t be there, because of wind/rain/wildlife. It’s out of sight, out of mind for them, and fuck anyone who has it end up in their area.
I think that since you care about cleanliness of your environment you have trouble wrapping your head around some people not caring at all about that.
Some people don’t even notice garbage on the ground. I have seen a soon to be engineer throwing their trash out of the window like a century ago. He didn’t even notice the trash in the street below even though he was walking through it everyday.
It’s not about morality it’s about not giving a fuck to something so hard you don’t even notice it.
Also some people have a life so hard it’s just not possible for them to care about it. When it comes to survival I don’t blame people for not being able to care. If your concern is your next meal throwing your trash properly seems irrelevant.
Wait wait wait, are you telling me my actions have consequences?
I love doing this, because two/three days later when I do laundry I find what I’ve been doing for the last few days as if I had kept a journal.
/cries_when_forgetting_to_check_pockets_prior_to_laundering
I always grind my teeth when I see someone litter a receipt or a candy wrapper. They’re so small, put them in your pocket to throw away later!
Nooo, that’s disgusting. The wrapper from the thing I just shoved into my face is trash now after all 😭
You fold it into itself so that it’s not dirty at all anymore?
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Yeah I do this too and my pockets are smelly but it’s great to empty my pockets at the end of the day and find pretty rocks and oddly configured screws
I was shocked when I visited the US and people actually occasionally just threw stuff on the ground without a second thought.
In my country you’d get so many bad stares from bystanders if you did that lol. I once got yelled on by an old women because I accidentally put my PET bottle in the general bin.
People living in Japan nod in agreement. On the surface, the lack of public trashcans is an anti-terrorism measure in the wake of the sarin gas attacks and other domestic and international terrorism. In reality, it’s probably also a cost-cutting measure for the fixtures and their maintenance.
People making tiny inconveniences for themselves instead of imposing them on everyone else is the essence of civilization.
You sir are both a gentleman and lawful good
