[Stylo]

I’ve observed in the past year or so an increase in littering almost everywhere.

It’s always been somewhat of an issue in more populated areas but seems to have gotten so much worse. It’s gotten to the point where we decided to do something about it and do occasional “trash walks” where we pick up.

Where it seems to be the worst is on highway on and off ramps.

This is one of those things that I believe the “broken windows” theory applies to. The worse it looks, the more likely people are to contribute to it.

Seems like the state should be doing more, or it’ll never get better.

I understand it’s difficult to do cleanup on highways, but it should not be difficult on on/off ramps.

[ConnecticutSir]

They're raising the bottle deposit from 5 cents to 10 cents and will be expanding more types of bottles to have the bottle deposit. They said it's because they too noticed an increase in littering in CT and decreasing participation in bottle redemption.

[nico7]

Nips. Everywhere on the side of the street. There are all kinds of reasons to ban them. If people want to "try" a small quantity of something, they can go buy a shot at the bar.

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by nico7

Nips. Everywhere on the side of the street. There are all kinds of reasons to ban them. If people want to "try" a small quantity of something, they can go buy a shot at the bar.

Oh yeah. We pick up a lot of those on our walks. Garbage people.

[Tobinj25]

I agree, you can’t seem to go anywhere anymore without seeing Dunkin trash. Like not an accidental blow away napkin but full bags of trash. When I walk my dog (yorkie) I used to put in a few pieces of trash. Now I’m putting in like 3 nippers (new stop sign on our walk), and so much fast food trash. The hardest part for me, not seeing other folks with bags pitching in to pick up (and this was before covid).

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by Tobinj25

I agree, you can’t seem to go anywhere anymore without seeing Dunkin trash. Like not an accidental blow away napkin but full bags of trash. When I walk my dog (yorkie) I used to put in a few pieces of trash. Now I’m putting in like 3 nippers (new stop sign on our walk), and so much fast food trash. The hardest part for me, not seeing other folks with bags pitching in to pick up (and this was before covid).

We do get a lot of people thanking us when we do it. I’ve only seen one other couple doing a garbage pickup walk, once.

[WouldLoveTo]

Yes and it's worse since covid because now masks are on the ground too. And water bottles. Because no one can walk 3.7 minutes without their water bottle (until they put it down and forget it)

But I gotta know, what's up with those plastic flossing things? I swear people buy them, try one in the car and say "nope, this is awkward" and out the window it goes.

I hate the nipper bottles. Most of them hide in the weeds till the lawnmower finds them.

[mdovell]

I get nips in my front yard. There's a liquor store near me but I can't really blame them. Urban areas can treat bushes like trash cans bug this is straight out tossing it. Lower populated rural areas have less reinforcement. Just like some come to quiet areas for the quiet and some come to be loud.

[jcpct]

It's horrible. I live in a very rural area and my road is covered in nips, beer cans/bottles and cigarette wrappers. I pick up a trash bags worth every few months in just my 2 mile walk. Whats wrong with people?

[Poseidon3290]

NYC residents who have moved to CT, still think they are in NYC it seems.