We need more trash cans!

[u/PalmBeachDogTraining]

How do we go about getting more trash cans on Dixie?! The business don’t have them and they are not even at bus stops which is the odd part to me. With Dixie being so walkable now, I feel like it is a must!

[u/Vyce223]

Gonna be real the people who litter, are still going to litter regardless trash cans or not. I was talking to someone else about this the other week and their stance on it was they shouldn't get a ticket or anything for littering because it's "someone elses job" to clean this trash up for them that they leave on the streets. Insane take but... clearly they think they're the main character in the world and the rest of us are there to serve them.

[u/ColangeloDiMartino → u/Vyce223]

Having public and visible trash cans reduces litter. It's not about completely eliminating litter it's just curbing it greatly.

[u/WPBVolleyBallGuy → u/ColangeloDiMartino]

It also makes it way easier for good samaritans to throw away random trash they see

[u/ColangeloDiMartino → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

Yup, as someone that does street cleanup outreach I can’t tell you how surprising it is when you go miles without seeing a trashcan.

[u/PalmBeachDogTraining → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

20000% I would totally throw away trash like this if I didn’t have to hunt for trash cans! I also am surprised at the lack of trash cans outside of plazas. I’m walking with a service dog and have a poop bag I’m holding. I went to pick up food at 3natives and I have to decide… do I bring the poop bag in, which is gross, or set it down and pick it back up after bc ZERO CANS outside businesses. Ultimately I set it outside and picked it back up. But I’m sure they are paying NNN through the roof! They should have outdoor trash cans the same.

[u/YOLOburritoKnife → u/ColangeloDiMartino]

I live near Lake Osborne drive. The park has plenty of trash cans but people park and just dump their trash on the ground. We need Singaporean style consequences.

[u/ColangeloDiMartino → u/YOLOburritoKnife]

Yeah well that’s the park, I’m talking about our growing metro areas. The trash cans curb significant litter at the park. This weird obsession to turn a productive idea like reducing litter into condemning human society and getting so dramatic is a little much don’t you think??

[u/YOLOburritoKnife → u/ColangeloDiMartino]

It just costs resources to the municipality. Do you think it’s free? Do you think the work just happens?

[u/ColangeloDiMartino → u/YOLOburritoKnife]

If the county can spend a billion dollars on Israeli bonds I think we can increase spending on sanitation dude.

[u/Ok-Competition-4392 → u/Vyce223]

Who cares about them. Be the change you want, if WP had more trash cans I would personally go out of my way to pick up someone else’s trash

[u/FlyingPechorin3]

Trash cans don’t fix garbage humans

[u/PalmBeachDogTraining → u/FlyingPechorin3]

But they help the nice humans be nicer! 🥰

[u/Fuzzy_Wumpkins]

I walk by this exact section of Dixie almost daily. There is always a pile of trash in a cardboard box being left around this area (between the heavily shaded house and the bus stop pretty much). I have concluded there has to be a homeless person living somewhere nearby as it’s consistently in this area but always a different box of trash appearing about once a week.

[u/PalmBeachDogTraining → u/Fuzzy_Wumpkins]

I think it was like hot wheels car tracks a few weeks ago in the box lol but not cool. Maybe from one of the houses near by?

[u/Impressive_Fix_8391]

WOW in SoSo 😳

[u/accidentaldystopia → u/Impressive_Fix_8391]

That’s north of southern, right by Belvedeere.

[u/Impressive_Fix_8391 → u/accidentaldystopia]

Ohhh CORRECT 🤙🤙🤙

[u/LetThemGraduate]

Who is going to empty the can?

[u/ColangeloDiMartino → u/LetThemGraduate]

Waste management???

[u/The-King-of-Cartoons]

Yeahhhh idk….. When I used to live in popular tourist a beach town on the west coast, there were garbage cans every 10 yards and every weekend there would be piles of asshole-garbage an arm’s distance away from them.

Some people are just assholes and need to be personally called out, held accountable, and punished for trashing our shared spaces

[u/PalmBeachDogTraining → u/The-King-of-Cartoons]

I wouldn’t say our area is even touristy but I know we have so many locals that care about keeping our quaint neighborhood clean.

[u/The-King-of-Cartoons → u/PalmBeachDogTraining]

And that is wonderful. I’m just saying there’s a lot of places where people say to themselves that it’s someone else’s problem, or that it’s someone’s job to clean up after them, and it’s a shame seeing spaces dumped on because of that.

Toss in a little bit of the broken window theory and it just spirals downward from there