[bgill]

I live in the country and I still get trash in the yard. This week alone I found one ketchup packet, two straws, two bottle tops, a piece of knotted rope and several other pieces of plastic and paper.

[goat granny]

I have 600 feet of property on a paved road and hate getting off the tractor to pick up trash people have thrown out of their cars....now if its paper or Styrofoam, I run over it, it gets chopped into little pieces and blow away in the wind, but still have to pick up bottles, cans and large trash bags that can screw up the blades of the mower deck....one time someone must have hit a deer on the far end of my property and gutted it, left all the innards for someone else to clean up. I cut the grass all around it and by mid summer the only thing left was a leather liver. Then I cut down the tall grass in was in....the least they could have done was offer me a venison roast, and had some freeper (sorry don't remember his/her name complain about cigarette butts....never had to get off my tractor to pick up a butt.....

[TXnMA]

I’ve come to the conclusion that, out here in the boonies, a considerable fraction of the litter is stuff (beer cartons, feed bags, etc.) that blows out of the beds of pickup trucks...

Of course, that’s no excuse. Folks with pickups should secure their trash.

Wal-Mart used to use distinctive blue-green plastic bags. When it became obvious — just driving down the roads — that a lot of the litter was theirs, the switched to generic white. The problem didn’t improve — but they were no longer an obvious contributor...