this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Only in Mississauga I find this disgusting behaviour.

Why are people just openly littering. It never used to be like this. What happened ?

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's also corporate culture to blame the customers for the littering. Tim Hortons produces a disposable cup, and people are simply returning it to those responsible for creating it.

Apparently Coca Cola is one of the biggest plastic polluter in the world and they lobby against deposit return systems because it's cheaper for them to pass the responsibility to the consumers. If some countries are choking with littered plastic bottles, maybe the consumers are dropping them everywhere. But maybe the ones producing the bottles could also be seen as being responsible for not taking them back.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

yes, the suppliers design the system consumers operate within, and then victim-blame the consumers when they live within that system

even worse, anti-littering campaigns were designed and funded by these large corporations to distract from actual environmental disasters like rising greenhouse gases and oil spills that were causing the real harm, and which were more directly caused by these corporations

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

* Personal carbon footprint intensifies *

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago

i realized my carbon footprint was actually quite small after stomping on the face of an oil executive, had to do it like 7 times to cover them!