Litter

[del4]

This is kind of a rant.

What is it with all of the litter here in La. especially in Livingston parish? I've lived and traveled to different areas in this country and I have never seen litter as bad as it is here.

I grew up not far from where I live now and it was bad then. I always thought that when more people and money came into the area, that everyone would take pride and keep it clean. NO! It got worse. When it rains and the ditches fill up, the garbage is there floating on top of it. I do my part and pick up around me and I see prisoner work details every now and then, but as fast as it gets picked up more comes. I mean entire garbage bags, furniture, cleaned deer carcasses, beer cans, cig butts friggin' everything!

I love the area, I love the lifestyle, people, scenery but the litter is embarrassing. I am ashamed to bring friends in from out of state.

Why is it different here?

 

[alpinehyperlite]

I have a pond fed by jones creek. I have to pick up a minimum of 10-15 beer cans/bottles in my yard on the banks when the water recedes.

 

[highstandard40]

I see it and I'm troubled by it too. As for an explanation for it........I haven't a clue. Too many people just don't care.

 

[thatguy]

Seems to be a southern, red neck, white trash, in bred sort of thing......although I must say Alabama and even Mississippi seem to be outgrowing it.
I have lived my entire life in Louisiana and still don't understand it. Even dogs don't crap where they sleep.

 

[JHenley17]

My dad jumped my ass when I threw a Smarties wrapper out the window when I was 5 or 6. Didn't do it again, and soon after developed my own opinion that it was disgusting and trashy. Which explains why most of the stuff I find in my yard are cheap beer cans, cheap cigarette boxes, and fast food bags.

 

[del4]

......although I must say Alabama and even Mississippi seem to be outgrowing it.

That is frightening, but true.

 

[AK shooter]

It's the same where I live. I live on HWY 182 and the amount of trash I pick up in my front yard is amazing.

 

[del4]

... cheap beer cans, cheap cigarette boxes, and fast food bags.

I think you are on to a lot of the problem.

 

[dad-e-o]

Endemic.

 

[molonlabe]

Agreed!!! Walker i-12 on-ramp is a disaster. Parish roads are worse. Saw at least twenty 32 ounce styrofoam cups floating in a little ditch last night. And it's like this everywhere. Some people are just pigs, I guess...


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[charlie12]

We ran a paper route in lower LP everyday for 17 years and have seen it all. We didn't go do road that had had water across them because of all the trash in the road. Beer bottles you name it. The Amite river was the same way when the water came up trash everywhere.

 

[brfd557]

I'm with ya man.... its blum disgusting to go around the country and then come back to the home that I love so much and to see its filth! Let me add something to that.. something else that ticks me off if the lack of upkeep form our local government!! You will see grass knee high along our interstates and highways and zero manicured along with the trash makes us very undesirable IMO.... if other states can do it La. can do it!

 

[CatCam]

Why? = simple, because litter creates litter. Weird how this happens but think of Disney World, it is clean and pristine so you don't throw trash on the ground because you don't want to be the 1st one, but if there is already litter than it must be okay.

Think about this - we live in a city where the success of a Mardi Gras is measured on how much trash is picked up off the streets afterwards........

 

[del4]

Why? = simple, because litter creates litter. Weird how this happens but think of Disney World, it is clean and pristine so you don't throw trash on the ground because you don't want to be the 1st one, but if there is already litter than it must be okay.

Think about this - we live in a city where the success of a Mardi Gras is measured on how much trash is picked up off the streets afterwards........

That doesn't make me feel any better.

 

[CatCam]

hahaha - sorry man!! Didn't mean to throw gas on the fire!......unless we were burning trash!

I'm with you on this -- I've seen people in Walmart parking lot change a baby's diaper and then place the soiled diaper on the ground in the parking lot. I guess litter is not enforced by our LEO's as they have more important things to do.......

Come to think of it we live in one of the few places where if you buy a new sofa, you throw your old one on the curb until "they" come pick it up.......this goes for water heaters, refrigerators, toilets, etc, etc............

 

[Magdump]

I don't see how anybody would not be opposed to trash everywhere. But the world is full of trashy, lazy, stupid, good-for-nothing, narcissistic, evil, rotten, careless, foolish, nasty, messed up....heathens. And they are gonna leave their mark.

 

[Labeeman]

Magdump I couldn't agree more. Every time I go to our camp in Grand Isle I can't believe the litter on the beach or the paths leading to the beach. We have a public access road to the beach on the side of our camp and I've watched numerous times as people just throw anything and everything on the ground before they leave. Most are drunk dumb asses, but why do people keep doing this? By now everyone knows you should not litter, even the people on the lower social economical rung of the ladder. They do it because of what Magdump said, they don't give a ****. It's their world and they do as they damn well please. It's the entitlement mentality. I'm also wondering why more inmates are not used for litter clean up? There has to be some reason for this. Louisiana has one of the highest prison populations per capita in the US so why not use them to make our environment a little cleaner. Ever been to Angola? This place is as clean as the above mentioned Disney World. Well enough on this, I have to pick up the litter that's thrown in my front yard every weekend as ass wipes pass my house after a night of partying. Nothing like picking up broken glass and nasty fast food packaging to get your morning started.

 

[highstandard40]

Another source of litter that many seem to ignore is fireworks. Every year during the fireworks seasons, July 4th and Christmas thru New Years, I have to pick up a huge volume of spent fireworks in my yard and from the ditch and street in front of my house. And I don't waste my money on such junk. People all around me send their trash into my yard and never offer to clean it up. Not to mention that standing in a public street to shoot fireworks is illegal. My daughter lives is a "nice" subdivision that forbids fireworks but a drive through there the morning after New Years Eve was like driving through the city dump. And it's all still lying there today.

 

[Lyle Savant]

Your right. It's generations of poor up-bringing. I see it in the basin, sometimes covering the entire width of a bayou; when the water rises. Very embarrassing.

My son & I literally filled up a canoe with trash when leaving a bayou; AND THERE WAS A NO LITTERING SIGN!!!

It amazes me how people flick a Cigarette Butt out a vehicle at a Red Light and never think a thing about it; that's littering as well.

 

[JHenley17]

We used to make a huge mess with fireworks (15-20 years ago, my dad would get half off and still spend $400), but we were always out there the next day with push brooms and garbage bags. I really don't get how people aren't bothered by their neighborhood looking like that.

Unrelated to the general population, but I also see too much glass, parts, and body pieces left in or next to the road after an accident. Entire bumpers aren't uncommon. I nearly wiped out on a black plastic bumper left in an intersection one night when I used to ride.