[tekla]

Its so mindboggling. Littering wssnt even an option in my head as a child. Always carry your trash until you can properly dispose.

What the hell is wrong with people?

[RetroTechie]

Netherlands back in the day had signs saying:

"Laat niet, als dank voor het aangenaam verpoozen, den eigenaar van 't bosch de schillen en de doozen"

(old-ish Dutch spelling. From ~1930). Translated:

"Leave not as thanks for your pleasant stay, the owner of the forest the peels and the boxes". (google for pix, they're nice!)

Today, I'd be a happy camper if it were just peels & cardboard since both bio-degrade. Unlike most other litter (smoking-related and balloons among my 'favourites').

But it's definitely a cultural thing. Learn kids @ a young age, problem goes away.

[sysworld]

Same here. I find it hard to understand people who litter.

[fy20]

What I really don't understand is throwing litter from cars. You literally cannot find somewhere in your car to keep the litter until you get home?

[Eueudhsbsj32]

I was recently traveling on a local bus near the Amazon and an indigenous family sitting in front of me were eating a local snack. When they finished, they opened the window and threw out the plastic wrappers.

At first I couldn't understand how someone who lives so close to nature could do something like that. But then I realized that when the parents were kids, those snacks were probably wrapped in banana leaves, not plastic, so discarding the leaves on the ground would have been perfectly natural thing to do.