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Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Re: Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Post by skyberrys »

Littered across this website are countless gems and gotchas to make you think about the consequences of your purchases and actions. In particular the treasures he has found are quite surprising, 100 phones?! Just from looking for trash? The author is 47 I think and he's been doing stuff for 17 years. I have some of my own cool found trash collections too. The trash you find revels the personality of the place.

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Post by autoexec »

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 one environment to another environment.

   [Senator Collins:] No, it’s beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment. It has been towed beyond the environment.

   [Interviewer:] Well, what’s out there?

   [Senator Collins:] Nothing’s out there…
Also, I couldn't help but wonder if he was removing trash at a faster rate than it was being added. Picking up litter is a good thing certainly, but we really need to get people to stop creating it in the first place. Even properly disposed of all that trash is a massive problem, but I'd love to see more effort getting people to clean up after themselves. A very long time ago I'd see PSAs with owls imploring us to "Give a hoot" and fake indians crying. Was that helpful? Does that kind of thing even exist today? Now that nobody watches TV are they pushed at kids on tiktok?

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Post by somebehemoth »

skyberrys wrote: post #2

Littered across this website are countless gems and gotchas to make you think about the consequences of your purchases and actions. In particular the treasures he has found are quite surprising, 100 phones?! Just from looking for trash? The author is 47 I think and he's been doing stuff for 17 years. I have some of my own cool found trash collections too. The trash you find revels the personality of the place.

10 bibles for another example. I have seen bibles a lot of places, but never as trash. He describes his giant ashtray and the tale of the tens of thousands of other pieces of trash he picked up on his way to one million cigarette butts. I love this guy and his website. This is what we gray beards mean when we speak of the Internet of old.

Re: Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Post by bombcar »

Be sure to check the second page: https://www.sixstepstobetterhealth.com/money.html

If every person picked up a piece of litter a day, the world would be exceptionally cleaner quite quickly.

I make a point to pick up any I see; you can carry dog waste bags if you're scared to touch things.

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Post by c22 »

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.

Re: Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

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Post by autoexec »

OutOfHere wrote: post #7

I don't understand why the local governments do such a poor job at cleaning litter. Do they not understand how bad it is? In NYC, the Bronx is utterly filthy.

It'd be an interesting jobs program. Cleaning up neighborhoods can have a lot of beneficial effects like reducing the amount of new litter. It could even reduce crime. It's also a job that would get people outside and keep them moving which is probably better for their health than being chained to desk all day, and it can't be done (even poorly) by a chatbot
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