“What is up with some people’s complete disrespect for our public spaces? It doesn’t require a huge amount of effort and discipline to keep our streets, sidewalks, parks and shorelines clean. Yet some of us appear incapable.”

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Does Montreal also have zero publically accessible trashcans for miles at a time? Because everywhere I’ve personally seen this be a problem, there are zero trash cans anywhere.

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Japan has virtually no public trash cans, and has some of the cleanest urban centers in the world.

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Can confirm, I’m living there right now. People here tend to take proper personal responsibility for their own garbage and mess.

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It helps to grow up cleaning your own schools and having being taught personal responsibility from a very young age. I have no doubt there are still elementary kids commuting to other towns alone by train to go to school, as there were when I was living there.

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Montreal is a long way from having the kind of culture where they can have no garbage cans AND no litter. Let’s just put some garbage cans in problem areas and reduce the trash problem.

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I do not understand how in this day and age there are are people that just think 'I’ll just dump this here on the street "

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It’s even more amazing that people will toss a lit cigarette butt in the middle of droughts.

Like I almost get why someone is so lazy they don’t care if things look or smell bad but casual arson is a hell of a leap.

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Honestly and unironically, the punishment for littering needs to be a lot harsher, and strictly enforced.

Leave a coffee cup on the ground? Jail.
Don’t pick up your dog’s shit? Jail.
Toss a cigarette butt on the sidewalk? Straight to jail, no trial.

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by us (not in canada, but your shittier southern neighbour), it’s all beer cans.

like, bad enough you’re driving while chugging a tallboy of natty ice, but you gotta throw it in our yard on your way by, too?

i shouldn’t be surprised that the venn diagram is a circle, but for some reason i always am.

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The type of people who litter will never see this

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No no I well not I was promised robots.

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Trashy people are always going to be trashy.

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