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Re: Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Post by Forgeties79 »

kmoser wrote: post #33
Forgeties79 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you though? As somebody else pointed out it could be a good public works/job creation program. You could probably put 4-5 people to work cleaning up a year for less than 1 cop. I’m kind of making up numbers here but I feel like that can’t be too far off what with salary, pension, equipment, etc. A few hundred people dedicated to taking care of litter would likely make a difference anywhere. You can get that for…

This works best when you pair it with promoting personal responsibility, otherwise you have to be careful it doesn't lead to the mindset of "I can throw this on the ground because it's somebody else's job to pick it up."

People already throw things on the ground because it’s somebody else’s job to pick it up. It’s a culture issue broader than simply “personal responsibility.” People in the US don’t like to be inconvenienced or we tend to shriek about personal freedoms.

In the US you likely need wildly punitive measures - not just small fines - to deal with the issue. Also would fall along party aligns with minutes and become a partisan issue immediately.

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

diacritical wrote: post #50

https://www.sixstepstobetterhealth.com/covid.html Why is the glove photo claiming censorship? Are the gloves arranged like letters or something? Am I missing a joke?

I can't explain the censorship claim. The gloves spell out, "stop throwing your gloves on the ground," per Claude.

Re: Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

antipollution wrote: post #43

I hope he comes to India and starts a movement, ideally leading to a public holiday tradition where everyone is supposed to pick up 10 pieces of litter.

I was super impressed that in Delhi there was no single use plastic. Little tongue depressor things instead of forks. Aluminum foil instead of plastic clam shells. Coming from Vietnam, it was amazing.

I have no doubt there is a litter problem in India, but take heart. It's not all bad.

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Post by 7777777phil »

c22 wrote: post #9
autoexec wrote: post #3

I'm starting to suspect I might be cynical. I was pretty impressed at the "1,000,000 cigarette butts that I removed from the environment" but I couldn't help but think "moved into what?" which brought this ( https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM ) to mind: [Interviewer:] Into another environment…. [Senator Collins:] No, no, no. it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment [Interviewer:] Yeah, but from o…

It looks like he might keep them in his own local environment for photo documentary / artistic purposes.

Classified multi-year contracts and government-funded compute are hard to walk away from when you're burning cash at that rate. Defense economics always do this to companies. Same thing that consolidated the primes in the 90s.

Wrote about why the door only opens one way: https://philippdubach.com/posts/when-ai-labs-become-defense-...

Re: Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Post by fusslo »

autoexec wrote: post #3

I'm starting to suspect I might be cynical. I was pretty impressed at the "1,000,000 cigarette butts that I removed from the environment" but I couldn't help but think "moved into what?" which brought this ( https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM ) to mind: [Interviewer:] Into another environment…. [Senator Collins:] No, no, no. it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment [Interviewer:] Yeah, but from o…

> Also, I couldn't help but wonder if he was removing trash at a faster rate than it was being added.

I wonder if people are less likely to litter if they don't see any other litter already on the ground

Re: Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Post by random_ind_dude »

antipollution wrote: post #43

I hope he comes to India and starts a movement, ideally leading to a public holiday tradition where everyone is supposed to pick up 10 pieces of litter.

I don't think one has to wait for someone to start a movement. I pick up plastic bottles whenever I see them and drop them in the nearest trash bin that is meant for plastic bottles. I am in Kerala though, which is comparatively cleaner than the rest of India(except the north-eastern states).

The Kerala government is pushing for better waste management now with more trash bins placed at public places and a state-wide effort to segregate waste at the source and collect it from homes.

Still people litter with abandon and it's hard to change ingrained habits.

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Post by babycheetahbite »

I purchased some "grabbers" and often go near the ponds in my neighborhood to pickup litter.

There are a lot of two liter bottles which are full or half full to be found, normally right near the shore. The first couple of times I found these, I foolishly emptied them (thought this was a good idea since they are so heavy) and along with whatever kind of liquid was inside, AA batteries came out. I vaguely have memories as a child of trying to create "explosives" by putting batteries in a bottle and throwing them (after shaking everything up of course). Not sure if that is what is going on here but if so, kids haven't changed much. I am sure that the kids that put these together later regret it (like around dinner time same day), but couldn't retrieve their device for fear that it might "blow", and so they just have to hope it is deactivated with time.

The item which to me is most baffling which I find in high volumes, is dental flossing sticks. These are commonly found everywhere around the ponds. I don't believe I have ever seen someone using a dental flossing stick in public. I have looked this up and I did find something suggesting that fisherman might use these as an all-purpose tool. Still not sure what this is all about.

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