• WashedOver@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    My favorite are dog owners that do pick up after their dogs but then fling the bag into the trees or bushes along the trail.

    Yes that dog doo is not preserved for future generations. Thanks.

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      1 year ago

      We have a beautiful small Mediterranean Pine forest near my home. Filled to the brim with small black plastic bags filled with dog poop. I think I even took pictures of it once. Enjoy nature!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah like it would’ve been better to leave the doo there, now you’ve littered shit AND a bag.

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      1 year ago

      Can someone, anyone, please explain why someone would do this?

      Not picking it up in the first place, though wrong, at least makes sense. But this is just crazy

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        1 year ago

        I guess they pick it up only if someone is nearby. As soon as noone sees it they throw it anywhere.

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        1 year ago

        Lots of the bags are bio-degradable, so they will eventually, in some unit of months or years, break down.

        Of course, its the same issue as chucking a banana peel. It fucks with the local environment and will take a long time to be “gone” if you just throw it into a forest and walk away. Enough people do that, and eventually you have a trail covered in shit and bananas.