is it a moral failing?? i think so. there's like two pounds of cooked rice, beans, and pasta just sitting on the pavement outside the trash can atop a desk someone else threw out there. i can only assume it tasted like shit and that's why they tossed it.
the desk I get. Hard to fit in the trash-can unless you can hoist it over your head into the top of the trashcan and not the side; yet small enough that you hope the underpaid santiation workers will still grab it without making you do a bulky item pick-up request. THE COOKED FOOD?!??! why didn't you just fucking throw that into the trash can.
it's gonna be here for weeks now. praying the feral cats eat it but the fact that it's gone uneaten for about a week leads me to believe that it will be here until some rat moves in (unlikely with the feral cats) or it gets warm enough for the cockroaches to come back outside.
Americans cannot have communism until everyone adheres to shopping cart theory (btw there's two shopping carts also out there)
It’s a psychological thing, when people see trash next to the bin they will assume the bin is full and leave their trash outside. Even if the trash next to the bin is too big to fit in the bin, they don’t really think about it and put the trash outside automatically. It helps to talk with your neighbours about this and asking them to be more mindful and check if there is space in the bin before leaving their trash outside.