In the road and sometimes an occassional bottle or can in OTHER peoples property.
In my experience, the police aren’t likely to be of any help in a situation like this, and are more likely to make matters worse (scenario slightly exaggerated for rhetorical effect)
Police: (Knock Knock) “Hello, sir, I’m Officer Phalloplasty from the Metropolitan Police.”
Littering Neighbor: “Yeah?”
Police: “See that guy in the window over there? He called us because you’re throwing trash in your yard.”
LN: “Which guy? The blue house?”
Police: “Yeah, his name’s MacDiddle. We’d appreciate it if you’d make sure he doesn’t call up bothering us anymore.”
LN: “No problem, he’ll be dead by morning.”
Police: “Just make sure to hide the body.”
The code enforcement people are probably your best bet.
If you’re going to rag on young people, best not to do it with a joke that was lame and stale in 1979.
ooOOoOOoOOOOoooooohHHHH.
We young people got him!!!
Au contraire. If there’s ever a time to use a joke that was lame and stale in 1979, it’s when ragging on young people. 
Was there an internet in 1979 in your world?
As a matter of fact, there was an Internet in 1979 (it’s been around since the early 1970’s and maybe even late 1960’s in some early form). In those halcyon days, it was only available at certain major universities, government-sponsored research labs, and some military sites. So the user community was limited to mostly academic types, mainly Computer Science people. Those were the days, before Usenet was polluted beyond recognition with trolls, before AOL existed.
Ty. Ignorance fought.
Actually, the OP’s neighbors are not “destroy(ing) the environment”, they’re just dumping ugly trash.
Since they’re all elderly rednecks, maybe the best bet is to contact AARP (Association of Ancient Redneck Persons).
Give them a 50 gallon barrel as a gift. Rednecks love burning trash. Problem solved. 
My goodness! :eek: I’m surprised you’re still alive!
Lead by example. Pick up the garbage.
Do it silently, with a smile on your face, wave Hello if being observed.
Keep doing it. Always.
Pretty soon you may see them coming around to your view. Without a fight.
I’d pepper spray the lot of 'em.
Not many people use the word “gunna”, particularly online. Are you sure you’re not part of that 1/3 redneck? :dubious:
I know what you’re going through because I have a new neighbor, really a homeless man who stalks his ex-girlfriend who just moved next door, who chain smokes and litters his cigarette butts… on my side of the street next to my house.
If you don’t want to be going into their yard to clean up after them, see if you can get word out to the homeless community that these people are leaving recyclables out for people to pick up. They might start cleaning up their act once they’ve got homeless people wandering all over their property all the time.
Obviously. Tsk. Young people have no sense of irony.
As for advice, I don’t have nearly enough information to be giving any. Is this within city limits? Small town or bigger? Is there much of a buildup? Do you see it happening or do you just see the result? Curbs and gutters or dirt shoulders?
In other words, it was a very small lawn, but it wasn’t infested with yutes* and their incomprehensible music. So we liked it.
On a related note, google “Eternal September” (aka “The September that never ended”). I blame AOL.
Instead of being aggressive and confrontational why don’t you try a public awareness sort of campaign in your neighborhood. They just might respond. Ask for neighbors to contribute to a small reward fund that the kids could be rewarded for picking up trash. I know a lot of southern cities don’t have any recycling programs, maybe you could head one up.
You need to talk to the “authorities.” But, leave out the reference to drunken rednecks and the like.
Do you have a HOA? Either way, you could organize a “keep our neighborhood clean” campaign, and try to keep it friendly and non finger-pointy.
if the neighbors are too dumb for you, move. find yourself a nice super smart neighborhood with nobody ‘beneith’ you … in the mean time, pick up the cans and bottles, take them in, then let the neighbors know how much money you got for their cans