I get a lot of trash in my yard. I think it comes from a couple things; some of it looks like trash from homes which I believe is from people tossing loose garbage into their trash cans which then blows out on pickup day, the rest is from assholes walking from the convenience store a couple blocks away or waiting at the nearby bus stop. It all pisses me off but I clean it up because no one else will and otherwise it would just end up back in my yard.
I pick up all the trash that ends up on my yard or close to it, except cigarette butts. Those I throw back onto the street. That brings up an ongoing peeve of mine - it gets real dry here by the end of summer, and my lawn turns brown and dry (read: tinder). It scares me and pisses me off every time I pick up a cigarette butt that someone has thrown on my dry as a bone lawn - the road that won’t burn is three steps the other direction, people - if you have to litter your butts, throw them on something that won’t burn and kill me in my sleep.
We’ve had incidents where people (probably drunk – I’d hate to think they would do this sober) have smashed their beer bottles against the concrete bottom of a kiddie wading pool in a city park. And clear glass bottles, too. Luckily, they forgot to remove the beer label from the glass, and a parent noticed that before any child got cut by the glass. But they had to close the pool down, drain it, and clean out all the glass. It was unavailable to kids for a couple of hot summer days.
Had they ever caught the drunks responsible, they could have just tied them to the fence around that pool and let the parents in the neighborhood deal with them! Probably would be “cruel and unusual” punishment – but well deserved!
Grrrr!
We live at the end of a long, dead end street. All the houses are set back about 2-300’ and it’s fairly wooded – so there is a lot of privacy down there. Every once in a while some work crew or delivery truck will park and eat their lunch (or sleep, or slack off…). No problem. But every once in a greater while, we’ll find bottles, butts, wrappers, and other associated lunch crap strewn about. Garrrrr!
I live on one of those country roads and get the occasional can, cigarette pack, pair of socks, t-shirt, what have you. I pick them up and put them in the trash/recycling. I did leave the socks there for a few days in hopes that the person who left them (probably a kid) would happen by again and reclaim them. The county doesn’t pick up roadside trash here except on the freeways, or if someone illegally dumps a bunch of stuff in one place and someone calls them, so kicking stuff into the road just moves the trash to a different place.
I have often thought about just kicking the newspaper (that I don’t order and have asked for them to quick delivering) into the road. I don’t because it isn’t my neighbor’s fault that it happens - but it does annoy me.
No, just call the newspaper company about it. If you insist (as you should), they will send someone out to pick it up. Sometimes that will be the carrier who tossed it there, who has to make a special trip back to get it. After doing this a couple of times, he will likely learn to deliver it to the right address.
I’ve called and asked them to stop - and they do for a while, but then it starts again.
I hadn’t thought to insist that they come out and get it. I may try that.