The trashing of our public lands.

While it's disgusting no matter whose trash it is, it's a tiny problem compared to environmental disaster that is occurring or about to occur in the US. The cause is the same though - it's all about me, and how much money can I extract for the "shareholders."

Pebble Mine - Bristol Bay

Drilling in ANWAR

Opening 9 million acres of wilderness to roads and logging in the Tongass NF

#1Flyboy wrote:
Yes the trashing of America is gonna continue UNTIL the government steps in and starts making trash disposal, recycling, energy conservation subjects that need to be taught to the public; won’t stop 100% of problems but will start to minimize the issues. Also companies need to look into packaging and how their products are winding up in places other than the garbage dump/recycling center.... We live on the road & camphost so we are very aware of this issue.

No amount of government mandates will make a slob not be a slob!

Etstorm wrote:

#1Flyboy wrote:
Yes the trashing of America is gonna continue UNTIL the government steps in and starts making trash disposal, recycling, energy conservation subjects that need to be taught to the public; won’t stop 100% of problems but will start to minimize the issues. Also companies need to look into packaging and how their products are winding up in places other than the garbage dump/recycling center.... We live on the road & camphost so we are very aware of this issue.

No amount of government mandates will make a slob not be a slob!

+1

sort of looks like the trash dump near my house. looks like they need more frequent trash pickups
bumpy

you know I was expecting garbage throught out woods, when I saw everything piled around a full dumpster my first thought was they dont empty the dumpster enought, then looking at the type of garbage I dont think it is camper, but rather people looking for free disposal of there household garbage.

Steve

We have been "users" of public lands for the last 50 years. Our national parks and public lands are being trashed... tp, diapers, tampons, human waste, etc. While the story is relevant, it is decades behind the curve. It seems that the new users of public lands are just pigs with no back country ethics. They wouldn't know what real wilderness was if it bit them in the butt.

Thunder Mountain wrote:
We have been "users" of public lands for the last 50 years. Our national parks and public lands are being trashed... tp, diapers, tampons, human waste, etc. While the story is relevant, it is decades behind the curve. It seems that the new users of public lands are just pigs with no back country ethics. They wouldn't know what real wilderness was if it bit them in the butt.

They have been there for a long time there is just more of them now.

cptqueeg wrote:
While it's disgusting no matter whose trash it is, it's a tiny problem compared to environmental disaster that is occurring or about to occur in the US. The cause is the same though - it's all about me, and how much money can I extract for the "shareholders."

Pebble Mine - Bristol Bay

Drilling in ANWAR

Opening 9 million acres of wilderness to roads and logging in the Tongass NF

If you have ever been to any industrial site in AK, like the oil fields in Prudhoe Bay, or mines outside of Fairbanks, you would not feel this way. They are very conscientious of the environment and the animals that call those places home. They take incredible care to not harm wildlife and keep everything clean. If a polar bear goes anywhere near a drill site, the shut it down regardless of the cost until the bear has it's babies and leaves the area. Alaska is the last place in the world you have to worry about environmental damage.

Back to the subject - we always bring our trash home with us unless we are staying at at paid site that has garbage service. We also separate trash from recycle and always bring that home. I have yet to find a place that has recycle bins. We did a 10 day trip to Glacier this summer and had 3 bags of recycle when we got home. Nowhere we went had recycle bins so we just traveled around with it.

Etstorm wrote:

#1Flyboy wrote:
Yes the trashing of America is gonna continue UNTIL the government steps in and starts making trash disposal, recycling, energy conservation subjects that need to be taught to the public; won’t stop 100% of problems but will start to minimize the issues. Also companies need to look into packaging and how their products are winding up in places other than the garbage dump/recycling center.... We live on the road & camphost so we are very aware of this issue.

No amount of government mandates will make a slob not be a slob!

Maybe not but, it won't hurt. You would be surprised how many of my friends kids / grand kids were never taught in school anything about recycling or picking up after yourself. I know that stuff should be taught at home but, if it isn't where are they going to learn it ???

I try to purchase stuff with less packaging but, you really can't ! It's all over packaged and surrounded by ****. I'm depressed at how much of the **** we buy is surrounded by **** that we then buy.

Plastic bags, in plastic bags, in plastic bags, surrounding a plastic hard shell thing, all for plastic toy.