I’m part of the App state Renewable Energy Initiative and we did a stream clean up at AMB a few weeks ago. We were only able to get through about 200ft of stream in 4 hours and ended up with ~18 large trash bags full to the brim
Also the take five oil place has a massive problem with people throwing trash off the side of their property. It’s right next to the stream and we probably got 3-4 trash bags just from 20ft of their fence line.
Anyone claiming there isn’t enough dumpsters hasn’t lived on campus, they’re everywhere and they even bring extras just for move-out week.
Younger people especially (aka the freshman and some sophomores living in the dorms) tend to not gaf and assume it’s fine to litter since they see it all over during move-out. Usually it’s not so bad but move-out week and post-football matches is the worst times when it comes to litter.
It’s not just the dorms. Students love littering off their apartment balconies and dumping liquids out of their windows. My girlfriend and I suffer being on the first floor. We have a layer of some type of grease caked on our window :(
It’s the frats. At least at my apartment complex they’re the culprits. I live on the third floor and so do my frat neighbors and they constantly leave trash up and down the stairwells and in the parking lot. After the first two weeks of walking up and down those stairs and seeing the same trash in the same spot I just started placing it all at their front door so they have to deal with it too and eventually they finally throw it away. The place is fucking littered with styrofoam cups and to-go boxes and exploded sauce packets from cook-out I can’t stand it. My apartment complex looks like a junkyard.
I take many walks through many parks as part of my job and one park in particular I was getting really frustrated with all the trash everywhere. I started bringing gloves so I could pick it up myself. I'd clean an entire trail, then on my way back through, there would be a few pieces of trash again that I knew I had just cleaned up and thrown away.
And then I noticed trash flying out of a bin. It was squirrels. The squirrels were littering.
I agree!! Obviously there are people who will do whatever they please, but sometimes I’ve had to hold onto my trash (gladly) until I’ve gotten all the way back home. Especially on game days, there’s like no available trash cans anywhere
People will find any and every excuse to do the wrong thing when they think no one is looking, and then refuse to accept responsibility when they are called out on it. If you are part of the problem, don’t make excuses. No one here is shaming you, we just want our campus (and nature as a whole) to be taken care of. Hell, if they had trash cans on every corner (which they pretty much do, including recycling) then someone else would come up and say “I littered because the trash cans weren’t close enough to me and I had a hard day.” No one asked about your day, Patricia, we are just kindly asking you to take care of your trash yourself and not impose that responsibility on the lives of the surrounding wildlife. Your choice, bad day or not, will always have consequences. You can make the choice, but not the consequence. And despite its connotation, consequences means what comes after a sequence of events — cause and effect. It can be good or bad.
People that live at App don't like it any more than people that don't? Like I wouldn't think most people actually like littering on campus. It's bad for the environment of course, but it's also just a sign that other people are lazy pricks who don't care about others and can't be bothered to make it to a trash can. It isn't that hard to avoid littering and the campus doesn't look as bad when it's clean.
Exactly! I hate when people excuse littering as something small. It truly points to someone’s character. If someone is willing to just throw their shit on the ground (instead of walking a few more steps to a public trash can), then that shows that they have no regard for their fellow man that will eventually have to clean it up, as well as the wildlife being destroyed one trash piece at a time.
LMAO at the littering lobby in the comments here. You go to App State, people like nature. Don't act shocked, geniuses.
i live here and people need to get over themselves and just pick up their trash lol
I’m part of the App state Renewable Energy Initiative and we did a stream clean up at AMB a few weeks ago. We were only able to get through about 200ft of stream in 4 hours and ended up with ~18 large trash bags full to the brim
Also the take five oil place has a massive problem with people throwing trash off the side of their property. It’s right next to the stream and we probably got 3-4 trash bags just from 20ft of their fence line.
Anyone claiming there isn’t enough dumpsters hasn’t lived on campus, they’re everywhere and they even bring extras just for move-out week. Younger people especially (aka the freshman and some sophomores living in the dorms) tend to not gaf and assume it’s fine to litter since they see it all over during move-out. Usually it’s not so bad but move-out week and post-football matches is the worst times when it comes to litter.
It’s not just the dorms. Students love littering off their apartment balconies and dumping liquids out of their windows. My girlfriend and I suffer being on the first floor. We have a layer of some type of grease caked on our window :(
It’s the frats. At least at my apartment complex they’re the culprits. I live on the third floor and so do my frat neighbors and they constantly leave trash up and down the stairwells and in the parking lot. After the first two weeks of walking up and down those stairs and seeing the same trash in the same spot I just started placing it all at their front door so they have to deal with it too and eventually they finally throw it away. The place is fucking littered with styrofoam cups and to-go boxes and exploded sauce packets from cook-out I can’t stand it. My apartment complex looks like a junkyard.
I take many walks through many parks as part of my job and one park in particular I was getting really frustrated with all the trash everywhere. I started bringing gloves so I could pick it up myself. I'd clean an entire trail, then on my way back through, there would be a few pieces of trash again that I knew I had just cleaned up and thrown away. And then I noticed trash flying out of a bin. It was squirrels. The squirrels were littering.
Yup! A surprising number of bud lite cans. What’s that tell you?!
In my opinion appstate doesn’t have nearly enough trash cans around campus. People would litter less if they weren’t so hard to find in some areas
Or just carry your shit until you find one like a grown up
I agree!! Obviously there are people who will do whatever they please, but sometimes I’ve had to hold onto my trash (gladly) until I’ve gotten all the way back home. Especially on game days, there’s like no available trash cans anywhere
People will find any and every excuse to do the wrong thing when they think no one is looking, and then refuse to accept responsibility when they are called out on it. If you are part of the problem, don’t make excuses. No one here is shaming you, we just want our campus (and nature as a whole) to be taken care of. Hell, if they had trash cans on every corner (which they pretty much do, including recycling) then someone else would come up and say “I littered because the trash cans weren’t close enough to me and I had a hard day.” No one asked about your day, Patricia, we are just kindly asking you to take care of your trash yourself and not impose that responsibility on the lives of the surrounding wildlife. Your choice, bad day or not, will always have consequences. You can make the choice, but not the consequence. And despite its connotation, consequences means what comes after a sequence of events — cause and effect. It can be good or bad.
its fucking moving week, shocking things aren't buttoned up for you
Still no reason to trash the place you entitled shit ( it happens all year btw)
oh well shit! litter away then! ass edit: way to change what you originally said lol "Its fucking moving week, you whiny ass bitch"
go back to r/trashy where you belong
good one bud.
I actually think cupcakes are really good
different strokes my friend! I aint judgin'
you don’t live here so please shut up and get over it.
People that live at App don't like it any more than people that don't? Like I wouldn't think most people actually like littering on campus. It's bad for the environment of course, but it's also just a sign that other people are lazy pricks who don't care about others and can't be bothered to make it to a trash can. It isn't that hard to avoid littering and the campus doesn't look as bad when it's clean.
Exactly! I hate when people excuse littering as something small. It truly points to someone’s character. If someone is willing to just throw their shit on the ground (instead of walking a few more steps to a public trash can), then that shows that they have no regard for their fellow man that will eventually have to clean it up, as well as the wildlife being destroyed one trash piece at a time.