I have a policy that if I come across a bag (usually plastic) while traveling, I pick and take it on the way.
Then I randomly fill it with trash that I can’t ignore while enjoying nature.
Unfortunately, usually only 1 bag isn’t enough.
A smart city puts trash cans every hundred feet or so.
I’ve always believed the biggest cause of littering was lack of proper receptacles.
I was proven wrong every year at the county fair.
My wife gets mad at me sometimes because I put my cigarette butts in my pockets until I can find a garbage all the time and end up smelling like cigarettes
Could you use the cigarette box? That’s what I used to do. Just stick the butt in one of the empty spots/the lid.
I visited Japan like 15 years ago, your not alone over there. Everyone does that and has little boxes to store them in. This goes for all trash they make, they don’t have trash cans in public since someone abused them once to bomb a train area. I loved it over there… so much care and respect for everything.
Lookin at you, smokers who throw their butts out the car window. Put those in your pocket!
I’ve always put rubbish in my pocket and kept it until I can find a bin after seeing a Sesame street segment about it as a young kid.
But when I smoked I did sometimes drop my butts on the ground. Normally I would keep hold of them if I was near a public bin as most of them have ashtrays in the top I could dispose of them in.
Coincidentally I’ve noticed that l, at least locally to me, the council have replaced those bins with ones with no ashtrays which has definitely increased the number of butts on the ground. Wonder if having them is seen as encouraging smoking.
But sometimes if I wasn’t near a public bin I’d drop my cig, stub it out and leave it on the ground. I used to smoke hand rolled cigarettes with no filter, just tobacco and paper. I justified it to myself saying it would biodegrade but it still can’t have been good for the environment.
I kept a 1/4 filled water bottle in my car for butts. The reason I started this is because an old mad shouted at me at the lights.
I accidentally consumed that water once. Shortly afterwards I quit smoking.
I carry plastic retail bags when hiking and kayaking.
If you flatten them out, fold them over a few times, roll them tight and wrap with a rubber band, you get a really tiny, portable bag.
