Originally Posted by
Machka
Why toss anything? Please ... just don't. If you lived in the country you'd see that it is more than "a few organic materials here and there" ... you'd see that people who pass through areas of fields and trees figure they can use those spots as their dumping grounds. After all ... the field or forest is large, who's going to notice a few bits and pieces of rubbish ... until half the people going by start dumping stuff.
People live in the country. People own land out there. We like the country to look clean and pristine ... but it's hard when litterers drop stuff everywhere.
I take it none of you litterers cycle in a fruit orchard area?? You'd have a whole different perspective from the nonsense about it being OK to throw out fruit scraps.
i grew up in the country too and currently live on a small farm. guess what i do when pick the garden and find rotten tomatoes or squash? i toss it in the woods. when i eat pistachios on the porch, i leave the shells in the grass. sometimes if i am out in the woods, i even piss outside. now, of course i wouldn't want a truck load of tomatoes or squash dumped in my woods, or 1 metric ton of pistachio shells dropped on my dock, or a sewage plant's worth of piss left on the doorstep. surely, you can understand that there is a difference between the two concepts. our property has about 1/4 mile alongside the road, and i could care less if people cycling by tossed the occasional banana peels or apple core.