When people come to Detroit, trash it then leave... :/

I think the event is a bad example to tell why people are littering. When lots of people come together, the streets get dirty. Even if there are enough trash cans. Once they are full and people start putting cans and paper bags underneath, there will be someone who kicks it a few feet away, maybe accidently maybe it was the wind or animals at night and some may think, the area will be cleaned up anyway.

However, I can tell from the city and country I live that the level of garbage thrown at streets and sidewalks cannot probably tracked to one particular reason. It's a combination of a number of different reasons, I guess.

  1. I currently live in a neighborhood where lots of tourists go through and these are not the ones who take pictures, but do bar hopping, get wasted the entire weekend. They don't live here, they don't care how it looks like during the day. They have no connection to the neighborhood whatoever. They are loud, drop beer bottles and other garbage. Once in a while the village youth from all around the globe get into a bar fight, since they are out of control. The same kind of young people move here and believe they can listen to music very loud at 3am in the morning, because 'everybody does that here.
  2. Fast food and 'garbage generation'. Where I grew up even there is a mixed community in the neighborhood, there are not many Bars, Subways, McDonalds or any kind of shops that generate garbage. Most garbage on the streets is fast-food packaging, beer bottle caps and cigarette roaches. However in my old neighborhood, you won't see that too often, since there is no source that generates that kind of garbage. I think I see a connection between location of 'gargabe generating' shops (liquor stores, fast food chains, ..) and the amount of garbage you see on the streets. At any place known to be used by alcoholics you see much more bottle caps and cigarette roaches than anywhere else.
  3. Kind of people living in the neighborhood. I know neighborhoods, that have fast food restaurants and 'party stores' and all that, but still the streets are much cleaner. In poorer neighborhoods in which people are disintegrated from the ' average society ' that can take part in social activities the people are depressed and in a state of 'no future'-thinking. They don't care whether their neighborhood looks nice or not. Also these neighborhoods usually grew over decades. When daddy and mommy open the first beer bottle at 8am for breakfast, it's probably not the best role model. The kids probably are already destined to have the same kind of adult life. They don't know it better. When the kid is 20 and hasn't seen anything else, it's their normal life. So having no role model benefits that bad behaviour, which links to 1) and people who get a wrong impression of the neighborhood they live in.
  4. The number of garbage can is probably the least important reason. When I have garbage to drop and there is no garbage can in sight I carry the garbage until I reach home. The non-existence of garbage cans is not a strong enough reason to me to dispose stuff I don't need.
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