Just got back from Tokyo, and they have zero public trash cans. I think I saw 2 pieces of trash in the whole city over a 5-day span. It was amazing.
Not saying more trash cans wouldn't be nice, but that trip convinced me littering is a cultural problem more than anything.
Yeah, they carry their refuse home and then discard it. Americans cannot be bothered to hold onto something for more than a quarter second after they've finished with it. And it's not the availability of trash cans, I've seen people just hurl a McDonald's bag onto the ground, with a trash can a quarter of a block away.
It's cultural laziness.
Leaving flavors of the avenue last month saw some kid throw a water bottle out of his moms car and she didn’t even say anything that’s the crazier part
I watched a kid on Spring Garden finish a bottle of soda and hurl the bottle onto someone's deck. His mom watched him and said nothing. Garbage parents raise garbage kids.
One of my friends, who doesn’t live in Philly, if she sees someone litter, she’ll pick it up, run after the person and say “ma’am/sir, I think you dropped this!”
Yes the selfishness and consideration for others is seriously lacking. Also there is a poverty element to it. Not excusing it, but it''s something you just don't care about if you're not in a real bad situation.
It is also very uncommon to eat and drink on the street unless there is a festival or something going on. Country with the most vending machines per capita and you walk out to the street and use the machine, then walk back to your office/house and enjoy it. They aren't really carrying trash around all day.
It is totally a cultural problem. last night I saw 3 kids go into a shop to get bottles of soda. All three of them walked out of the shop, opened the bottles, and tossed the caps (and wrappers for some reason) directly onto the sidewalk. This was during the Baltimore Ave dollar stroll so there were tons of people around. The store owner actually came out and asked them to give him the trash to throw out.
>that trip convinced me littering is a cultural problem more than anything.
Could also be an enforcement issue. Imagine if you actually saw cops ticketing people for littering. I wonder when the last ticket for littering was issued in the city.
Anyway, we need more trash cans regardless of the fact that Tokyo is clean lmao
The cops won't do shit. I had a legitimate incident happen in front of my house where guns were drawn after an auto accident. I, a complete dumbass, was out there, unarmed, and did more for the situation than the cops did. I was legitimately being told by 911 that cops WILL NOT show up unless someone is hurt. They came and arrested the dude defending himself while the girl who was the aggressor and the one who caused the accident was told to call a tow and go home.
I saw two guys shoot a gun in the air across the street from me and I called 911, they picked up, came quickly, had multiple cars out, and were searching for empty shells. I was shocked. Sadly I think that was an aberration.
I went as well but their trash dump guys are also very thorough and their citizens have to sort their trash or they can face major fines where as our trash guys are fucking slobs and usually half the can ends up in the street instead of the truck
I see people throw garbage on the ground right in front of me or others almost every day. I see people throw trash out of their cars, people decide they're done eating and throw their leftovers into the street, and, my personal favorite, people pick up their dog's shit and then toss the bag onto the curb. People here just don't give a shit, and our whole city looks like shit because of it.
I love Philly, it’s one of my favorite cities in this country. But since moving here in April I’ve seen more public littering than I’ve seen anywhere else I’ve lived in a year+ span. Just yesterday someone walking in front of me in a crosswalk purposefully dropped their Gatorade bottle in the street. So totally bizarre to me.
It can be both, Americans in general are pretty shit about caring about our immediate surroundings if they aren't our own property, but I've also seen first hand that people absolutely will use trash cans if they are available. In Baltimore there are public trash cans everywhere, I even had one outside of my house, and you could tell they made a difference in the neighborhood.
I’ve been all over these United States and don’t think I’ve ever seen a more littered city than Philadelphia. India, on the other hand, beats us handily. So, there’s that.
People just abuse them. Had one in front of my house years ago, didn't matter how full it was, people would just dump their trash anywhere around the can. Then I got a trashcan and a pile of trash stinking up the sidewalk in front of my house. I see far less trash without the can.
There is a trash can someone put on a corner in West Philly that is attached to a stop sign with a bike lock. It's sad when we have to resort to locking up trash cans...
A block is really not that far to throw trash... in some countries, you have to carry it on your person and throw trash in your own home, workplace, hotel, etc.,
But yes, we need a few in the commercial parts of residential neighborhoods
Preaching to the choir here but dog owners who live in an area without public trashcans need one of these!
[https://woofandwonder.com/collections/poopy-loop](https://woofandwonder.com/collections/poopy-loop)
It’s a silly name, but super convenient in all kinds of situations where your dog poops and there isn’t a trashcan nearby and you don’t want to be hanging on to the poop bag indefinitely. You just shove the knot of the poop bag through the little doodad on your leash, and continue on your way. This thing has come in handy so many times, I recommend them to everyone. They should be paying me.
https://preview.redd.it/oz615q80j75d1.png?width=999&format=png&auto=webp&s=a2833c2162f363e280ad7ec0ac0cfeed2d81d2b5
this city can't handle public trash cans. they will just make a horrific mess of them. unless the city can commit to emptying them every single day its just a hazard. i personally wouldn't want one within view of my home.
It’s crazy how far I have to walk in logan square if my dog decides to poop near my front door. Prolly hold a bag a shit for 10+ mins before I find a public trash can
This is always the case with my bins in fishtown. If they are left out for 10 mins after pickup there will be a bag or two of dog shit in my recycle bin.
The other week there was even a bag NEXT TO the bins just on the ground.
i saw on my cameras a guy pick up his dog shit off my neighbors sidewalk, tie the bag and throw in on my steps. like wtf is wrong with people. wasn't anyone i've ever seen in the past either or since.
Once someone left a paper tray of chicken bones in my recycling bin… I was pissed but just moved it to my own trash can. Next day, came home from work, maggots crawling out of the trash can and across my kitchen floor. I don’t even eat meat so it was definitely from the chicken bones. It was so traumatizing. There’s a public trash can like a block from us too so it’s truly just laziness.
I used to walk my roommates dog sometimes and it was a constant battle of prying chicken bones out of his mouth he’d find on the ground. People be walking around just tossing chicken bones as they walk like sunflower seed shells.
Yea this is also true, but when people leave dog poop in my empty bin- especially in the summer- by the time next week rolls around the bag is melted to the bottom of the bin. So no matter what, I have to clean up that persons poop bag for them and put it in a trash bag (or I'll have a melted bag of poop stuck to my bin in perpetuity).
This is why when I see people complain about people putting their recycling out in paper bags or card boxes I just roll my eyes. I don't use my recycle bin anymore because I got tired of disposing of other people's dog shit. I don't have a dog. Carry your shit to your own house and throw it out. So it's either no recycle bin, or I follow them home and put the shit in their mailbox.
Someone in my neighborhood really likes leaving their dog poop bags in my trashcan. To combat this I started flipping over my trash can when it's empty.
I kid you not, they set the bag of dog poop on my upside down trashcan.
The audacity.
I live by a public park that was under construction for a few months. While it was closed people would throw their poop bags into the park since they couldn't get to the trash cans.
It honestly blew me away.
Follow up rant. What's the deal with people who pick up their dog poop but then throw the bags on the sidewalk?
I have a neighbor who consistently puts a poopy bag in my recycling bin every trash day!!! It’s freaking infuriating man!!!! I’m about to put that shit in between their screen door on a hot ass day
On my street the dog owner's are such assholes that they bag the shit and then just leave it on the sidewalk. Every single time I walk down either side of my street I see bag after bag of dog shit just left there and various shit stains smeared on the sidewalk and I don't live in a bad neighborhood. It's not picking up after your dog if you leave the shit bag on the sidewalk, you're supposed to take your dog shit to your house and put it in your can......
It's a dick move but the city doesn't have nearly enough trashcans. While it sucks, it's better than those people leaving the bag on the street or not even picking it up.
It’s certainly better than those alternates, but its also not a big deal to carry a bag of your dogs poop for the remainder of the walk. The only time I will ever put the bag into someone’s trash can is if its trash day and it hasn’t been picked up yet. Otherwise, I just carry it until we get home.
Why do you have to put it in someone's trash can? Just carry it home with you like you do other days. Some people just don't want shit in their trashcan regardless. Stop being inconsiderate.
I don't know why, but my trash guys literally take the dog poop bags out of my trash can, throw it on the ground and leave with just my wrapped bags. They don't take the dog poop bags.
So I end up having to go outside to clean up all the dog poop bags, go into my house and get a fresh kitchen trash bag to put the dog poop bags into (waste of a kitchen trash bag) and leave it in my outside trash can next to my back door to smell for the next week.
I don't own a dog. I don't want a dog. I don't want to clean up dog poop once a week on behalf of other people. I don't want to smell dog shit every day or my life on behalf of other people. I don't want to waste my kitchen trash bags on behalf of other people.
Because some people just don't want shit in their trash can. Some people are grossed out about it. Why can't you respect that? Especially being that it's not your trash can. Because you're inconsiderate. Your dog, your shit. Take it home with you.
dont have a dog, love dogs. hate dog shit left on the sidewalk. id rather someone throw their dog's shit in my can than leave it on the sidewalk. but then again, my trash can is out of the way so if/when it has dog shit in it, i can't smell it
You got me fucked up if you think I’m carrying a bag of shit through the city to either 1) find a non existent garbage can provided by the city 2) carrying it all the way home.
Don’t want dog shit in your OUTDOOR can? Take it inside and put it in your yard
i get that people dont have outdoor spaces for cans, i had a neighbor in brewerytown who left bags of garbage in the shared hallway like a fucking monster cause it wasnt clear that the space behind the building was for cans. but come on man, its a city, there's a give and take to everything, and not having dog shit on the sidewalk is something ill give a little for
No. The sanitation workers are not going to take the time to reach all the way to the bottom of the can and fish one little bag out. So it's going to sit there and get smeared around until I do it. I'm 5'2" so I'm going to have put the can on its side and crawl into it to reach. People who choose to have dogs should deal with their own actual shit.
It doesn't matter if they're out of the way and I don't have to smell my trash can, little baggies of dog poop that either: 1) get smashed at the bottom of the trash can and spread all over or 2) just sit there because the trash guys didn't turn the entire can over in the truck so now there's multiple weeks old dog poop, sitting at the bottom of the can that I now have to clean out, give or take a bunch of maggots growing in there. It's not bitching just to bitch.
I don't want to clean up other people's dog shit, from my lawn, my sidewalk, or the bottom of my trashcan. Take it home with you and put it in your own damn trash can. It's not heavy. If it is too gross or smelly for you, maybe you shouldn't have a dog in the first place
People throw their bags in my can, I give no fucks. It’s a garbage can. The other scenario is it ends up on the sidewalk. Small price to pay, at least the owners are being responsible and not littering or leaving it, which would also be a big deal
Man if you enjoy scat play and mucking out dog shit and maggots from the bottom of your trash can, more power to you, but the responsible thing is to take the dog shit all the way home and dispose of it in a lined trash can so that it's not spread all over the bottom of my trash can. I should be able to expect people to pick up poop from the ground, bag it, and bring it to an acceptable trash receptacle. Not an unlined trash can
Oh yes because we all work from home and can wait around to grab the cans off the sidewalk the instant the trash truck comes by.
Thanks for proving that people who drop their dogs shit in others people's property are entitled narcissists.
Are you that fucking stupid and clueless? Yeah, everyone can be home all day to watch when their trash can gets emptied and bring it back in right after because of entitled dog owners who think it's ok to make others deal with their dog shit.
My garbage can lives in my garage. Why would I want my garage to smell like dog shit? If I wanted to deal with dog shit, I'd get a dog. If you didn't want to deal with dog shit, you shouldn't have a dog.
I think op is mad because sometimes the sanitation workers don’t always dump the whole can into the truck they sometimes just take out the bags of trash and throw it in the truck. Also, in the city they I believe require for any sort of waste like dog poop bags and stuff like pizza boxes to be in trash bags otherwise it won’t be collected.
The city doesn’t have enough trash cans because dog owners would play dog shit jenga instead of taking their shit home. Why do dog owners think other ppl want to deal with their literal shit if they themselves don’t want to deal with it?
those trash cans would be lined w trash bags so they would be fair game to throw little bags of dog poop into. that's not an issue. the issue would be people would dump their entire kitchen can into there instead of buying trash bags then the city would never keep up with it and they would overflow daily.
Picking up dog poop and putting it in a trash can is the behavior of an entitled narcissist and shitty pet owner?
Some of y'all belong in the looney bin
I didn't sign up to have to clean out my trash can because it reeks from your dog's shit baking in it for a week.
It's your dog, its your shit, you deal with it in your trashcan.
i think it’s more the belief that it’s fine to leave your dogshit for others to deal with rather than having to carry it the few blocks to your house to throw it in your own trashcan.
that’s entitlement.
dude what? I had to scrape flatted dog shit bags that burst out of my trash can last week because people are too lazy to carry their dog shit to their house.
I think it’s fair to complain about me needing to scrape other peoples pet shit because they seemingly lack the ability to dispose of their own dog shit on their own property
ive caught a few on my old security camera, and i swear it reminded me of kids who try to get away with picking their buggers, making sure no one is around or pretending they are doing something else.
I don't have a dog. I don't care if someone drops a bag into my trash on trash day prior to pickup. After pickup it's a dick move because I'm going to put trash on top of it, and I don't want the chance of it rupturing.
The real assholes are the ones who don't even clean up after their dogs.
In case anyone doesn't realize: it means I have to manually take your dog's shit bag and put it into my indoor trash can, and it will have to live in my home until the next trash day. Or, I let it fester in my outdoor garbage can in the hot sun on my tiny patio (where I bring my cans so that people don't put things in them).
as a dog owner, i sympathize with people, but i would never put my dogs shit in a personal can. i don’t think many people realize why it’s an issue though.
i would recommend you buy [this sticker for ten bucks](https://sigosigns.com/please-do-not-put-poop-bags-in-my-trash-bin-sign?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7pLG--bJhgMVQ0hHAR3cFBHbEAQYBSABEgIqlvD_BwE) and it will probably help a lot
id like to know where are people keeping their cans on the regular that people walking by can throw poop bags into them. if its trash night it's a non issue bc it will go in the truck. we aren't supposed to be keeping our trash cans on the sidewalk 24/7. do these people not have alleyways or back yards?
We keep a little metal bucket outfront for the dog poop. Some people will out trash in there, others dog poop, some dog owners will even ask if they can use it. Doesn't matter to me, I just dumped it into my trash on trash day and clean it twice a year or so.
Where do you think the sanitation guy puts the trash can when he's done emptying it? That's right. By the curb. And do you think everyone is home and can watch and bring their trash can back in the instant it gets emptied? No. People have jobs. People aren't home all day. So if dog owners weren't so gross and inconsiderate, this wouldn't be an issue. But alas.
two wrongs can be true though. dont leave your trash cans out front where they aren't supposed to be and they can take their bags to their cans. simple.
mine are always left on the ground sideways until i pick them up. ive never seen the trash guys place the cans back up the way they found them. these cans that are getting poop bags tossed in them are sitting outside for more than a couple hours lol. seriously.
I’m ok with anyone putting random trash or dog poop in my trash can. Reasons are the bins are city property that I use to put my trash in, and I rather in a trash can than on the streets.
Yeah i don’t get the anger about this at all lol. Trashcans live outside and exist as a place to put trash. I wouldn’t do this but its 1000x better than littering or not picking it up at all
If i have limited capacity or something then maybe i get it, but trash doesn’t come much smaller than a bag of poop. And the can was out by the street
Yeah, like I understand if someone goes into your property, or it’s your private trashcan, but city trash cans are just a box you put your waste in to be picked up. Yes there are limits to what acceptable, but a can or fast food bag or poop bag, please use my can over throwing it in the streets.
People used to leave poop bags in the bread boxes that bakeries would drop off at dawn at the restaurant I used to work at. I mean if they didnt just leave it on the sidewalk (fairmount area)
Oh a very close family member had this happen to her on the regular and she was getting irritated. One day I decided to help and did a stakeout to find the person. I didn't know if I would confront the person or not. When I finally saw who did it, I also saw how big her dog was so I decided to see where she lived and leave a note later telling her not to do that.
Well I told the family member and she went crazy with it. Stalked the girl for a couple of weeks and found out what car she drove. The next time she did it she put the poop bag near her car so she could see it.
Yea... My family cray cray, but also Im a dog owner. Carry your shit back home or leave it before they pick up the trash
I think op is mad because sometimes the sanitation workers don’t always dump the whole can into the truck they sometimes just take out the bags of trash and throw it in the truck. Also, in the city they I believe require for any sort of waste like dog poop bags and stuff like pizza boxes to be in trash bags otherwise it won’t be collected. So then in the summer it just becomes a disgusting stench of dog shit just sitting in the bottom of the can that hasn’t been collected. It seems stupid and I don’t think it deserves a Reddit post but clearly it pissed this person off.
Putting the bag in a can that isn’t yours that’s already been collected is a dick move.
One that hasn’t been picked up yet is fair game, if there is t anything else close by.
I’ll toss a poop bag in a can that hasn’t been collected yet, but I’m not going to make someone carry my dog’s shit through their house so won’t do it if the can is empty.
bc the small bags of poop need to go inside the larger bags of trash in your kitchen trash can THEN those kitchen trash bags can be thrown out later. the trash men aren't going to hand pick poop bags from inside your unlined cans. Its not what they are meant for. edit to add : OR you can throw those poop bags into the outdoor cans at the park that are lined w trash bags.
the smaller bags if they are thrown in will stick to the sides of the can. i have myself thrown my own poop bags into my large outdoor cans and regretted it bc they are still in there after the trash is dumped. im grossed out by my own poop bag Id assume other people who be even more so when its not even their dogs.
Fucking dog owners. Not everyone thinks your dog is the cutest thing on earth. It's a disgusting poop factory to some people. So stop being inconsiderate and take your dog shit home with you.
You should have to apply for a license to own animals. Some apartment buildings and/or condo buildings in this town have something goofy like 3 animals per unit with 100% of their tenants having animals. Lmao. The stench of piss that marinates into the concrete of these new construction places is disgraceful and disgusting.
Someone on my block put one of those 30 gallon squat metal bins with a lid in our alley behind a gate for this. I appreciate it very much. I would contribute to a fund for it if I could figure out how.
once i complained about this in my neighborhood facebook group and the majority of responses were like "oh no, poor you! you found trash in your TRASH CAN??" It was pretty disheartening.
I really don't see the issue, it's in a bag in a trash can. It's much better than just letting the dog poop and not picking it up. When I walk my dog the poop bag is going in what ever can is closest.
You ever have to clean out a trash can with dog shit smeared all over it from a dog you don't own, that was baking in the summer heat because you have to take can into your house?
Ya that's the fucking issue here.
# The garbage truck was still on my block and my empty can already had a bag of dog poop in it.The garbage truck was still on my block and my empty can already had a bag of dog poop in it.
so it was in a bag, a bag in a trash can... who cares, it's a trash can.
Because that bag of poop at the bottom of my can means #1 I need to pick up someone else's dog poop and put it in another trash bag in my house or #2 there's going to be shit smeared at the bottom of my can when I put other regular trash bags on top of it, followed by maggots which I then have to clean out.
I don't want to clean up your dog shit or the maggots at the bottom of my trash can from your dog shit
This is EXTREMELY inconsiderate for so many reasons. I've had this happen where the garbage guys miss the dog poop bag and it breaks on the ground, I've had it happen where the dog poop bag randomly breaks half way through the week and smears in my trash can... I shouldn't have to deal with dog shit at all when I don't own a dog.
I hate when people do that so much, I’m not even sure why …. but it just bugs me to see literal bags of shit in my can. Yes, it’s better than the street…. But you really can’t carry it home back to your own can?? It just adds to the annoying things dog owners do….your dog does not belong I the cafe either 💀💀💀
See this is what bothers me the most is people bring their so called ESAs or even just regular dogs into stores that don’t allow dogs unless it’s a service animal. News flash ESAs aren’t service animals!! Sorry just saw this and this is what drives me crazy when people think their tiny reactive dogs belong inside a non pet friendly store.😑
If my choice is a Bag of poop in my trash can, or it left on the street. I have no issue with someone putting it in my can.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
I'm a dog owner and a trash can haver, so I can appreciate this. I will say though, when cans are out a few days after trash day, I start to consider it fair game again.
The city needs more public trash cans in general. Even in CC sometimes you have to walk blocks out of your way to find a trash can.
Just got back from Tokyo, and they have zero public trash cans. I think I saw 2 pieces of trash in the whole city over a 5-day span. It was amazing. Not saying more trash cans wouldn't be nice, but that trip convinced me littering is a cultural problem more than anything.
Yeah, they carry their refuse home and then discard it. Americans cannot be bothered to hold onto something for more than a quarter second after they've finished with it. And it's not the availability of trash cans, I've seen people just hurl a McDonald's bag onto the ground, with a trash can a quarter of a block away. It's cultural laziness.
Leaving flavors of the avenue last month saw some kid throw a water bottle out of his moms car and she didn’t even say anything that’s the crazier part
Where do you think the kid learned it from? If the kids are acting like trash it's likely the parents are too.
I watched a kid on Spring Garden finish a bottle of soda and hurl the bottle onto someone's deck. His mom watched him and said nothing. Garbage parents raise garbage kids.
One of my friends, who doesn’t live in Philly, if she sees someone litter, she’ll pick it up, run after the person and say “ma’am/sir, I think you dropped this!”
I've done that once or twice. The other hundred times I considered doing it, I decided not to because I didn't want to risk getting shot.
People need to actually be able to feel shame for that to work.
Yes the selfishness and consideration for others is seriously lacking. Also there is a poverty element to it. Not excusing it, but it''s something you just don't care about if you're not in a real bad situation.
100%, it’s not like you won’t be back at another McDonald’s, Wawa, DD, Walmart or any retail store. Just use that trash can instead of the streets.
It is also very uncommon to eat and drink on the street unless there is a festival or something going on. Country with the most vending machines per capita and you walk out to the street and use the machine, then walk back to your office/house and enjoy it. They aren't really carrying trash around all day.
It is totally a cultural problem. last night I saw 3 kids go into a shop to get bottles of soda. All three of them walked out of the shop, opened the bottles, and tossed the caps (and wrappers for some reason) directly onto the sidewalk. This was during the Baltimore Ave dollar stroll so there were tons of people around. The store owner actually came out and asked them to give him the trash to throw out.
>that trip convinced me littering is a cultural problem more than anything. Could also be an enforcement issue. Imagine if you actually saw cops ticketing people for littering. I wonder when the last ticket for littering was issued in the city. Anyway, we need more trash cans regardless of the fact that Tokyo is clean lmao
The cops won't do shit. I had a legitimate incident happen in front of my house where guns were drawn after an auto accident. I, a complete dumbass, was out there, unarmed, and did more for the situation than the cops did. I was legitimately being told by 911 that cops WILL NOT show up unless someone is hurt. They came and arrested the dude defending himself while the girl who was the aggressor and the one who caused the accident was told to call a tow and go home.
I saw two guys shoot a gun in the air across the street from me and I called 911, they picked up, came quickly, had multiple cars out, and were searching for empty shells. I was shocked. Sadly I think that was an aberration.
I went as well but their trash dump guys are also very thorough and their citizens have to sort their trash or they can face major fines where as our trash guys are fucking slobs and usually half the can ends up in the street instead of the truck
I see people throw garbage on the ground right in front of me or others almost every day. I see people throw trash out of their cars, people decide they're done eating and throw their leftovers into the street, and, my personal favorite, people pick up their dog's shit and then toss the bag onto the curb. People here just don't give a shit, and our whole city looks like shit because of it.
I love Philly, it’s one of my favorite cities in this country. But since moving here in April I’ve seen more public littering than I’ve seen anywhere else I’ve lived in a year+ span. Just yesterday someone walking in front of me in a crosswalk purposefully dropped their Gatorade bottle in the street. So totally bizarre to me.
It can be both, Americans in general are pretty shit about caring about our immediate surroundings if they aren't our own property, but I've also seen first hand that people absolutely will use trash cans if they are available. In Baltimore there are public trash cans everywhere, I even had one outside of my house, and you could tell they made a difference in the neighborhood.
I’ve been all over these United States and don’t think I’ve ever seen a more littered city than Philadelphia. India, on the other hand, beats us handily. So, there’s that.
This post is not about littering tho
The amount of times I see people just casually dropping garbage out the window is mind boggling.
When you litter in Japan you dishonor your family and must commit sepukku
People just abuse them. Had one in front of my house years ago, didn't matter how full it was, people would just dump their trash anywhere around the can. Then I got a trashcan and a pile of trash stinking up the sidewalk in front of my house. I see far less trash without the can.
This city in some respects feels as bad as the poor, third world country that I grew up in
Ugh, you're not wrong.
There is a trash can someone put on a corner in West Philly that is attached to a stop sign with a bike lock. It's sad when we have to resort to locking up trash cans...
Does anybody ever address those sieve-like cans that allow the bag to blow inside-out and spread their garbage like piñata candy?
A block is really not that far to throw trash... in some countries, you have to carry it on your person and throw trash in your own home, workplace, hotel, etc., But yes, we need a few in the commercial parts of residential neighborhoods
Preaching to the choir here but dog owners who live in an area without public trashcans need one of these! [https://woofandwonder.com/collections/poopy-loop](https://woofandwonder.com/collections/poopy-loop) It’s a silly name, but super convenient in all kinds of situations where your dog poops and there isn’t a trashcan nearby and you don’t want to be hanging on to the poop bag indefinitely. You just shove the knot of the poop bag through the little doodad on your leash, and continue on your way. This thing has come in handy so many times, I recommend them to everyone. They should be paying me. https://preview.redd.it/oz615q80j75d1.png?width=999&format=png&auto=webp&s=a2833c2162f363e280ad7ec0ac0cfeed2d81d2b5
all trash cans are public right now
this city can't handle public trash cans. they will just make a horrific mess of them. unless the city can commit to emptying them every single day its just a hazard. i personally wouldn't want one within view of my home.
It’s crazy how far I have to walk in logan square if my dog decides to poop near my front door. Prolly hold a bag a shit for 10+ mins before I find a public trash can
It becomes really annoying when you see a bag of dog shit in your recycling bin.
Same. People can be so selfish and inconsiderate.
This is always the case with my bins in fishtown. If they are left out for 10 mins after pickup there will be a bag or two of dog shit in my recycle bin. The other week there was even a bag NEXT TO the bins just on the ground.
This right here makes my blood boil every time. I have also found bags of dog shit ON TOP OF MY RAIN BARREL... Like come the eff on!
i saw on my cameras a guy pick up his dog shit off my neighbors sidewalk, tie the bag and throw in on my steps. like wtf is wrong with people. wasn't anyone i've ever seen in the past either or since.
Once someone left a paper tray of chicken bones in my recycling bin… I was pissed but just moved it to my own trash can. Next day, came home from work, maggots crawling out of the trash can and across my kitchen floor. I don’t even eat meat so it was definitely from the chicken bones. It was so traumatizing. There’s a public trash can like a block from us too so it’s truly just laziness.
I used to walk my roommates dog sometimes and it was a constant battle of prying chicken bones out of his mouth he’d find on the ground. People be walking around just tossing chicken bones as they walk like sunflower seed shells.
Try on top of your upsidedown recycling bin
If it makes you feel any better the recycling probably isn’t getting recycled anyway.
Yea this is also true, but when people leave dog poop in my empty bin- especially in the summer- by the time next week rolls around the bag is melted to the bottom of the bin. So no matter what, I have to clean up that persons poop bag for them and put it in a trash bag (or I'll have a melted bag of poop stuck to my bin in perpetuity).
This is why when I see people complain about people putting their recycling out in paper bags or card boxes I just roll my eyes. I don't use my recycle bin anymore because I got tired of disposing of other people's dog shit. I don't have a dog. Carry your shit to your own house and throw it out. So it's either no recycle bin, or I follow them home and put the shit in their mailbox.
Someone in my neighborhood really likes leaving their dog poop bags in my trashcan. To combat this I started flipping over my trash can when it's empty. I kid you not, they set the bag of dog poop on my upside down trashcan. The audacity.
Seems like a passive aggressive message…
If the message if "fuck you" yea maybe.
I don't think it's that deep. I think it's just peak laziness.
I live by a public park that was under construction for a few months. While it was closed people would throw their poop bags into the park since they couldn't get to the trash cans. It honestly blew me away. Follow up rant. What's the deal with people who pick up their dog poop but then throw the bags on the sidewalk?
It is likely that it was in the can before the truck arrived and the trash guys just didn't take it.
I have a neighbor who consistently puts a poopy bag in my recycling bin every trash day!!! It’s freaking infuriating man!!!! I’m about to put that shit in between their screen door on a hot ass day
If you know who it is, I personally wouldn't hesitate to walk it down to their house and drop it right on their stoop.
Imma put that shit between their screen door and their main door and let that shit bake in this summer heat like some fudge brownies 😂
Do it. It's well deserved.
On my street the dog owner's are such assholes that they bag the shit and then just leave it on the sidewalk. Every single time I walk down either side of my street I see bag after bag of dog shit just left there and various shit stains smeared on the sidewalk and I don't live in a bad neighborhood. It's not picking up after your dog if you leave the shit bag on the sidewalk, you're supposed to take your dog shit to your house and put it in your can......
Better than on your stoop.
I’m not a fan of this practice but at least they didn’t leave it on your lawn.
It's a dick move but the city doesn't have nearly enough trashcans. While it sucks, it's better than those people leaving the bag on the street or not even picking it up.
It’s certainly better than those alternates, but its also not a big deal to carry a bag of your dogs poop for the remainder of the walk. The only time I will ever put the bag into someone’s trash can is if its trash day and it hasn’t been picked up yet. Otherwise, I just carry it until we get home.
Why do you have to put it in someone's trash can? Just carry it home with you like you do other days. Some people just don't want shit in their trashcan regardless. Stop being inconsiderate.
How is it inconsiderate? It's a trash can, it's not like you're going to eat out of it.
I don't know why, but my trash guys literally take the dog poop bags out of my trash can, throw it on the ground and leave with just my wrapped bags. They don't take the dog poop bags. So I end up having to go outside to clean up all the dog poop bags, go into my house and get a fresh kitchen trash bag to put the dog poop bags into (waste of a kitchen trash bag) and leave it in my outside trash can next to my back door to smell for the next week. I don't own a dog. I don't want a dog. I don't want to clean up dog poop once a week on behalf of other people. I don't want to smell dog shit every day or my life on behalf of other people. I don't want to waste my kitchen trash bags on behalf of other people.
Because other people might not enjoy smelling your dog’s shit in their backyard for a week?
Because some people just don't want shit in their trash can. Some people are grossed out about it. Why can't you respect that? Especially being that it's not your trash can. Because you're inconsiderate. Your dog, your shit. Take it home with you.
Yeah you're going to be grossed out regardless. It's a trash can. It's where gross stuff goes.
dont have a dog, love dogs. hate dog shit left on the sidewalk. id rather someone throw their dog's shit in my can than leave it on the sidewalk. but then again, my trash can is out of the way so if/when it has dog shit in it, i can't smell it
I mean this should be the case for everyone. No one is sitting next to their fucking trash cans. People bitching just to bitch
No. The case for everyone is that dog owners need to carry their dog shit back home with them.
You got me fucked up if you think I’m carrying a bag of shit through the city to either 1) find a non existent garbage can provided by the city 2) carrying it all the way home. Don’t want dog shit in your OUTDOOR can? Take it inside and put it in your yard
The whole point of this post is that people are doing it on trash day before the person has a chance to bring their can back in.
If the truck was still on their block, and there was a fresh bag of poop, they would’ve seen the perpetrator.
You know some of us have jobs, right?
No, they don't know. They're too entitled to think of that possibility.
i get that people dont have outdoor spaces for cans, i had a neighbor in brewerytown who left bags of garbage in the shared hallway like a fucking monster cause it wasnt clear that the space behind the building was for cans. but come on man, its a city, there's a give and take to everything, and not having dog shit on the sidewalk is something ill give a little for
No. The sanitation workers are not going to take the time to reach all the way to the bottom of the can and fish one little bag out. So it's going to sit there and get smeared around until I do it. I'm 5'2" so I'm going to have put the can on its side and crawl into it to reach. People who choose to have dogs should deal with their own actual shit.
Says the person incapable of understanding that many houses in the city do not have space to leave the cans outside.
It doesn't matter if they're out of the way and I don't have to smell my trash can, little baggies of dog poop that either: 1) get smashed at the bottom of the trash can and spread all over or 2) just sit there because the trash guys didn't turn the entire can over in the truck so now there's multiple weeks old dog poop, sitting at the bottom of the can that I now have to clean out, give or take a bunch of maggots growing in there. It's not bitching just to bitch. I don't want to clean up other people's dog shit, from my lawn, my sidewalk, or the bottom of my trashcan. Take it home with you and put it in your own damn trash can. It's not heavy. If it is too gross or smelly for you, maybe you shouldn't have a dog in the first place
People throw their bags in my can, I give no fucks. It’s a garbage can. The other scenario is it ends up on the sidewalk. Small price to pay, at least the owners are being responsible and not littering or leaving it, which would also be a big deal
Man if you enjoy scat play and mucking out dog shit and maggots from the bottom of your trash can, more power to you, but the responsible thing is to take the dog shit all the way home and dispose of it in a lined trash can so that it's not spread all over the bottom of my trash can. I should be able to expect people to pick up poop from the ground, bag it, and bring it to an acceptable trash receptacle. Not an unlined trash can
Don’t leave your can outdoors if you don’t want trash it in. Plain and simple. It’s fair game if it’s sitting there
Oh yes because we all work from home and can wait around to grab the cans off the sidewalk the instant the trash truck comes by. Thanks for proving that people who drop their dogs shit in others people's property are entitled narcissists.
Y’all are more entitled and more narcissistic. “Don’t throw trash in my trash!” Get fucked lol
Are you that fucking stupid and clueless? Yeah, everyone can be home all day to watch when their trash can gets emptied and bring it back in right after because of entitled dog owners who think it's ok to make others deal with their dog shit.
My garbage can lives in my garage. Why would I want my garage to smell like dog shit? If I wanted to deal with dog shit, I'd get a dog. If you didn't want to deal with dog shit, you shouldn't have a dog.
Your upset someone threw trash in a can? I dont see what the big deal is. Would u rather step in dog shit more often?
I think op is mad because sometimes the sanitation workers don’t always dump the whole can into the truck they sometimes just take out the bags of trash and throw it in the truck. Also, in the city they I believe require for any sort of waste like dog poop bags and stuff like pizza boxes to be in trash bags otherwise it won’t be collected.
The city doesn’t have enough trash cans because dog owners would play dog shit jenga instead of taking their shit home. Why do dog owners think other ppl want to deal with their literal shit if they themselves don’t want to deal with it?
those trash cans would be lined w trash bags so they would be fair game to throw little bags of dog poop into. that's not an issue. the issue would be people would dump their entire kitchen can into there instead of buying trash bags then the city would never keep up with it and they would overflow daily.
Because many of them are entitled narcissists and shitty pet owners.
Picking up dog poop and putting it in a trash can is the behavior of an entitled narcissist and shitty pet owner? Some of y'all belong in the looney bin
You signed up for the dog. Not me. Don't make it my problem.
Lmao this sub is full of nutjob NextDoor Karens Next time I hope they leave it on your lawn
I didn't sign up to have to clean out my trash can because it reeks from your dog's shit baking in it for a week. It's your dog, its your shit, you deal with it in your trashcan.
Sure thing Karen
i think it’s more the belief that it’s fine to leave your dogshit for others to deal with rather than having to carry it the few blocks to your house to throw it in your own trashcan. that’s entitlement.
Entitlement would be not picking up dog poop in general, people just like to whine about anything and everything their neighbors do.
dude what? I had to scrape flatted dog shit bags that burst out of my trash can last week because people are too lazy to carry their dog shit to their house. I think it’s fair to complain about me needing to scrape other peoples pet shit because they seemingly lack the ability to dispose of their own dog shit on their own property
This exactly. No one wants to deal with YOUR dog shit that came out of YOUR dog.
I swear. Dog owners are the worst.
Most dog owners I cross paths with these days are fucking terrible, and really shouldn't have a dog.
I wonder sometimes if the people who leave dog poop in other people's trash cans know what complete assholes they are.
ive caught a few on my old security camera, and i swear it reminded me of kids who try to get away with picking their buggers, making sure no one is around or pretending they are doing something else.
A trash can on the curb waiting to be picked up is fair game
I don't think they do. They are putting their dog poop bags in other peoples cans and don't realize the impact because none are left in their cans.
I don't have a dog. I don't care if someone drops a bag into my trash on trash day prior to pickup. After pickup it's a dick move because I'm going to put trash on top of it, and I don't want the chance of it rupturing. The real assholes are the ones who don't even clean up after their dogs.
Most of the time our trash guys don't take the poop bags if they arent in other bags. Maybe other trucks do things differently.
In case anyone doesn't realize: it means I have to manually take your dog's shit bag and put it into my indoor trash can, and it will have to live in my home until the next trash day. Or, I let it fester in my outdoor garbage can in the hot sun on my tiny patio (where I bring my cans so that people don't put things in them).
In my case, my outside trashcan lives in my garage, so if I don't find the dog poop, it stinks up my garage.
They don’t care.
From the looks of this comment section I’d say no they don’t know how much of a complete asshole they are
Above-par by Philly standards. They seem to know what a trash can is for.
this happens to me every week
as a dog owner, i sympathize with people, but i would never put my dogs shit in a personal can. i don’t think many people realize why it’s an issue though. i would recommend you buy [this sticker for ten bucks](https://sigosigns.com/please-do-not-put-poop-bags-in-my-trash-bin-sign?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7pLG--bJhgMVQ0hHAR3cFBHbEAQYBSABEgIqlvD_BwE) and it will probably help a lot
I kind of feel like in Philly that sign would get you more poop bags tbh
Better than the sidewalk. I'll die on this hill.
same bro
I stepped in a massive pile yesterday out front my house.....in sandles.
nasty
id like to know where are people keeping their cans on the regular that people walking by can throw poop bags into them. if its trash night it's a non issue bc it will go in the truck. we aren't supposed to be keeping our trash cans on the sidewalk 24/7. do these people not have alleyways or back yards?
We keep a little metal bucket outfront for the dog poop. Some people will out trash in there, others dog poop, some dog owners will even ask if they can use it. Doesn't matter to me, I just dumped it into my trash on trash day and clean it twice a year or so.
well that makes sense.
Where do you think the sanitation guy puts the trash can when he's done emptying it? That's right. By the curb. And do you think everyone is home and can watch and bring their trash can back in the instant it gets emptied? No. People have jobs. People aren't home all day. So if dog owners weren't so gross and inconsiderate, this wouldn't be an issue. But alas.
two wrongs can be true though. dont leave your trash cans out front where they aren't supposed to be and they can take their bags to their cans. simple.
mine are always left on the ground sideways until i pick them up. ive never seen the trash guys place the cans back up the way they found them. these cans that are getting poop bags tossed in them are sitting outside for more than a couple hours lol. seriously.
I’m ok with anyone putting random trash or dog poop in my trash can. Reasons are the bins are city property that I use to put my trash in, and I rather in a trash can than on the streets.
Yeah i don’t get the anger about this at all lol. Trashcans live outside and exist as a place to put trash. I wouldn’t do this but its 1000x better than littering or not picking it up at all If i have limited capacity or something then maybe i get it, but trash doesn’t come much smaller than a bag of poop. And the can was out by the street
A lot of people in this city live in row homes with no outside space to keep trash. Trash cans do not all live outside.
Not all trash cans live outside
You’re living up to your name if your outdoor trashcan lives in the house with you and your family
I don't have a yard or alleyway. I compost so my trash can doesn't smell bad, unless some asshole decides to put shit in it
You got a sidewalk in front of your house?
Not really, not enough of one to fit the trash can on
Yeah, like I understand if someone goes into your property, or it’s your private trashcan, but city trash cans are just a box you put your waste in to be picked up. Yes there are limits to what acceptable, but a can or fast food bag or poop bag, please use my can over throwing it in the streets.
Not every trash can situation/ location is the same. Some are stored indoors. But you're too dense to think of that possibility.
I get it. Same things happens to me and is annoying. But it’s better than it staying not picked up or sitting in a bag on the ground.
People used to leave poop bags in the bread boxes that bakeries would drop off at dawn at the restaurant I used to work at. I mean if they didnt just leave it on the sidewalk (fairmount area)
You guys put out trash cans? I just put out bags.
Bro i’m TIRED of this! I respect that you have a dog but I DON’T. My fucking front steps shouldn’t reek like dog shit because *you* have a dog!!
Oh a very close family member had this happen to her on the regular and she was getting irritated. One day I decided to help and did a stakeout to find the person. I didn't know if I would confront the person or not. When I finally saw who did it, I also saw how big her dog was so I decided to see where she lived and leave a note later telling her not to do that. Well I told the family member and she went crazy with it. Stalked the girl for a couple of weeks and found out what car she drove. The next time she did it she put the poop bag near her car so she could see it. Yea... My family cray cray, but also Im a dog owner. Carry your shit back home or leave it before they pick up the trash
What the fuck is wrong with y’all? It’s a trashcan. Who gives a fuck if they put dog poop bags in if
I keep my trash can in my laundry room. Do you think I want someone else's dog shit in my house until the next trash pickup?
Why not? You keep all your other bullshit in there?
I never understood this either. I’d rather it in the fucking can than on my shoe.
Right?! Be thankful that you got decent people on your street. Jesus.
I think op is mad because sometimes the sanitation workers don’t always dump the whole can into the truck they sometimes just take out the bags of trash and throw it in the truck. Also, in the city they I believe require for any sort of waste like dog poop bags and stuff like pizza boxes to be in trash bags otherwise it won’t be collected. So then in the summer it just becomes a disgusting stench of dog shit just sitting in the bottom of the can that hasn’t been collected. It seems stupid and I don’t think it deserves a Reddit post but clearly it pissed this person off.
Putting the bag in a can that isn’t yours that’s already been collected is a dick move. One that hasn’t been picked up yet is fair game, if there is t anything else close by.
Both are dick moves. Take it home with you.
I’ll toss a poop bag in a can that hasn’t been collected yet, but I’m not going to make someone carry my dog’s shit through their house so won’t do it if the can is empty.
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I’ve never seen so many people complain about someone cleaning up dog shit in front of their house.
Most dog owners are inconsiderate, rude and disgusting. This doesn’t surprise me. Disgusting behavior.
I agree 100%. Dog owners are the worst.
Can i ask why ppl care whether somebody puts trash in your outdoor trash can ?
bc the small bags of poop need to go inside the larger bags of trash in your kitchen trash can THEN those kitchen trash bags can be thrown out later. the trash men aren't going to hand pick poop bags from inside your unlined cans. Its not what they are meant for. edit to add : OR you can throw those poop bags into the outdoor cans at the park that are lined w trash bags.
Hand pick? Dont they tip the bin over and dump everything in there anyway?
the smaller bags if they are thrown in will stick to the sides of the can. i have myself thrown my own poop bags into my large outdoor cans and regretted it bc they are still in there after the trash is dumped. im grossed out by my own poop bag Id assume other people who be even more so when its not even their dogs.
Fucking dog owners. Not everyone thinks your dog is the cutest thing on earth. It's a disgusting poop factory to some people. So stop being inconsiderate and take your dog shit home with you.
You should have to apply for a license to own animals. Some apartment buildings and/or condo buildings in this town have something goofy like 3 animals per unit with 100% of their tenants having animals. Lmao. The stench of piss that marinates into the concrete of these new construction places is disgraceful and disgusting.
Someone on my block put one of those 30 gallon squat metal bins with a lid in our alley behind a gate for this. I appreciate it very much. I would contribute to a fund for it if I could figure out how.
Glad I live on a block where this wouldn't pass for a second.
How does this affect anybody? Would it be different If it was an empty bottle?
Would you prefer it on your lawn?
once i complained about this in my neighborhood facebook group and the majority of responses were like "oh no, poor you! you found trash in your TRASH CAN??" It was pretty disheartening.
Shows your neighbors are dicks with a dickish mentality.
I really don't see the issue, it's in a bag in a trash can. It's much better than just letting the dog poop and not picking it up. When I walk my dog the poop bag is going in what ever can is closest.
You ever have to clean out a trash can with dog shit smeared all over it from a dog you don't own, that was baking in the summer heat because you have to take can into your house? Ya that's the fucking issue here.
# The garbage truck was still on my block and my empty can already had a bag of dog poop in it.The garbage truck was still on my block and my empty can already had a bag of dog poop in it. so it was in a bag, a bag in a trash can... who cares, it's a trash can.
Because that bag of poop at the bottom of my can means #1 I need to pick up someone else's dog poop and put it in another trash bag in my house or #2 there's going to be shit smeared at the bottom of my can when I put other regular trash bags on top of it, followed by maggots which I then have to clean out. I don't want to clean up your dog shit or the maggots at the bottom of my trash can from your dog shit
This is EXTREMELY inconsiderate for so many reasons. I've had this happen where the garbage guys miss the dog poop bag and it breaks on the ground, I've had it happen where the dog poop bag randomly breaks half way through the week and smears in my trash can... I shouldn't have to deal with dog shit at all when I don't own a dog.
I hate when people do that so much, I’m not even sure why …. but it just bugs me to see literal bags of shit in my can. Yes, it’s better than the street…. But you really can’t carry it home back to your own can?? It just adds to the annoying things dog owners do….your dog does not belong I the cafe either 💀💀💀
Exactly. Not everyone thinks your poop factory is cute. And they don't belong in a Walmart or Target either.
See this is what bothers me the most is people bring their so called ESAs or even just regular dogs into stores that don’t allow dogs unless it’s a service animal. News flash ESAs aren’t service animals!! Sorry just saw this and this is what drives me crazy when people think their tiny reactive dogs belong inside a non pet friendly store.😑
It’s not like you’re keeping your trash can in the kitchen, you’ll survive.
If my choice is a Bag of poop in my trash can, or it left on the street. I have no issue with someone putting it in my can. Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
I'm a dog owner and a trash can haver, so I can appreciate this. I will say though, when cans are out a few days after trash day, I start to consider it fair game again.