Tvov wrote:
Now you get into actually attracting people to dump in the forests -
Yep .... a version of that happens right in our "local neighborhood".
We live in a heavily forested mountainous region just outside of a mega-suburban area. We see piles of trash left along our mountain roads every once in awhile. The DW and myself removed one once using our pickup truck.
I assume that these piles of trash are coming from folks who - live down in the valley flatlands and are just plain cheapskates who don't want to pay disposal site fees (but consume the gas to drive into our mountains), or are just plain too financially strapped to pay disposal site fees (but consume the gas to drive into our mountains), or are just plain too lazy to drive to a disposal site (but spend the time and drive the miles to drive into our mountains).
The folks that do the above kind of inconsiderate stuff are no different than those that trash up their free camping areas on public lands. Maybe deep down all of them think that they are actually considerate folks and they rationalize their actions by assuming that leaving trash around is no big deal because "someone else will eventually pick up the trash anyway". (How's the twisted logic in that last sentence grab you?)
