Litter
I spent this morning doing a proper study of litter in my neighbourhood.
It’s an affluent Brisbane suburb with a greens federal member and a liberal state member.
Plenty of white bread people in houses, and also tons of aspirational Indian and Chinese immigrants in the apartments.
Categories of litter found;
McDonalds litter. Wrapping dropped right outside McDonald’s, probably by teenagers that couldn’t give a fuck, yet. They are after all trying in vain to individuate.
Picnic table litter. A family from the subcontinent left all their paper plates and wrappings on a picnic table in the park. They simply haven’t assimilated yet. They will.
Tradie fast food wrappers. After eating in their parked utes, young tradies dump their rubbish out of the passenger door when no one is looking. Radical outsiders, right!
Public bin overflow. This one’s on the council for not emptying their bins frequently enough.
Discarded shopping trolleys. The culprit surprisingly is old people wheeling their shopping home. Cunning rats, they get Kmart or Target trollies (they don’t have geolocation fence brakes like Coles or Woolies) and then shop at Aldi. Ultimately Kmart and Target come and get their trolleys. But still…
Then there’s random items that must have been dropped by accident. Very little of this.
Finally, the garbage truck itself has overflow litter. The mechanical process of picking the wheely bin up and emptying it results in spilled rubbish on the road.
In total, bugger all litter. All of it’s addressable with simple measures. You don’t need to ban single use plastics to fix the issue.
offshore westerly 