# Littering and class/culture/ethnicity **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 6, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/littering-and-class-culture-ethnicity/939472 "2021-04-06T08:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 81
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/littering-and-class-culture-ethnicity/939472/81 "2021-04-18T22:51:35Z")
Haven’t read the entire thread yet, but I did address something similar a while back in the Pit. This hasn’t changed much since COVID. > [@Fireball Whiskey mini-bottles and toothpicks with dental floss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fireball-whiskey-mini-bottles-and-toothpicks-with-dental-floss/843267): > > Why am I starting a Pit thread about these two items? Because it seems I can’t go anywhere without seeing the bottles by the side of the road, and the toothpicks in the parking lot. Doesn’t anyone throw these in the garbage? I kinda sorta understand the whiskey mini-bottles (they want to drink it and don’t want the people they live with to know about it) but floss picks? Just pitch them, mmmmkay? (I’ve probably made a couple dollars off the mini-bottles I’ve picked up while walking in my ne… When I did clinicals on an Indian reservation, my roommate and I went out hiking one weekend day, and we were horrified at all the litter. She said, “They consider their land sacred, and they do this? It would be like going to church and dumping your garbage there.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/littering-and-class-culture-ethnicity/939472)._