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Comment by tekla

1 day ago

Its amazing how different the culture is. I don't even think twice about carrying garbage on me, but when I recommend Americans to just carry their garbage until they can toss it, I might as well have insulted their mother.

Apparently the view is that if society wanted them to keep the earth clean, they would have set out more garbage cans.

The interior of food packaging is often soiled by the food it previously contained. I don’t want to transfer that soil to my pocket or my backpack.

  • Ehh. Unless you're eating a melted candy bar, you probably accumulate more dirt and sweat going through your day than whatever few crumbs leak into your pockets.

It's not a culture thing. They had trash cans. Until the sarin attacks.

Now people in Japan just put their trash in the streets. It piles up and early in the morning everything is cleaned.

  • They don't put their trash in the streets except for garbage pickup day. That's not related to the removal of public garbage cans (which, yes, was a reaction to the sarin gas attacks). It's more of a substitute for dumpsters.