You know who you are....

[Badger Brent]

I have seen this way too many times at WDW also. I own a bowling alley, and outside each door is a trash can and cigarette receptacle. Weekends are worse, but even before I open the doors to get in and clean in the morning, I have to make a sweep of the parking lot for broken glass, fast food bags, convenience soda cups, and empty cig packs. After that, get the broom and dustpan to sweep all of the cigs people flipped on the ground before entering. RIGHT next to the nice cig receptacle is sitting next to the FRONT and SIDE door. So nothing surprises me anymore as far as lazy and stupid people. Remember as Ron White said, "You can't fix stupid, it's forever". Brent:brick:

 

[wvdisneyfamily]

Line ques are the worst. I saw trash stuffed and thrown in the theming at EE, PotC, Splash, and M:S. That was so sad.

 

[Dagger]

ITA... don't dirty our parks!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[EpcotGrl]

YES! This drives me CRAZY. I still do the thing where I pick up trash around the parks (as long as it's not gross) as I'm walking... I went camping last month, and I started carrying trash bags on hikes to pick up all the litter.

How hard is it to just pick up after yourself? I learned that when I was four...

 

[dandaman]

What's worse is seeing it at a Cedar Fair park. Last month (Cedar Point), I picked up a bottle, but before I threw it in a bin, I counted every trashcan from that point.

...If I can count 47 in 30 seconds, surely you could take a few of those seconds and find one.

(I only use the Cedar Fair example because they're infamous for being the Trash Can Capital of the amusement industry. :lol: )

 

[cooleo]

Fun fact about Disney's trash cans at the parks. Every trash can has the same distance between them. Disney ate a hot dog, and whatever step he took thats the distance between trash cans (some say 15, some say 20, when i find the exact amount i will tell)

According to Disney shows I have seen, they claim Disney researced how far the average walked before dropping a piece of trash & used the number they came up with to place the Trash Cans. Therefore, all Trash Cans are placed no more tha 27 paces apart from the next one.

It's amazing what you can learn on the Travel Channel....LOL:lol:

 

[doop]

I totally agree with you, not even just in WDW, but in every public place. How hard is it for someone to use a trash can. I used to work at a park as a summer job and had to pick up people's trash everyday, and I can tell you that it is the absolute worst.

 

[lcsrig]

Well as maggiegrace said, some of us were raised right. It shows us that some of us are humans and the rest are trolls. I would love to catch these people in the act and completely let them have a piece of my mind. My 8yo would even tell them something.

 

[kennyj29]

I just want to thank WDWGuy for bringing it up. It is a totally fowl habit and it annoys the hell out of me also!!!!! I will stick garbage in my pocketbook if I have to or a pocket. Or just carry it until the next waste bin. How hard is that? Please, Please, Please pick up after yourselves.

 

[raven]

Has anyone ever left the parks late and seen how much CRAP guests leave sitting in their once occupied parking space?? Absolute PIGS....They should all be ashamed of themeselves...

WDWGuy

You should see Cedar Point at the end of the day. It's like "The Birds" in the parking lot with all of the seagulls attacking the trash.

MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! :lol:

 

[michaelcostella]

Some people are so careless, it bothers me so much.

 

[jikobean]

gum has to be the worst. i don't understand why people have to take their chewed up gum and stick it under the railings while they're waiting in line. i don't know how many times i've touched someone else's gum on a railing or have seen in stuck in a crack in the line queue for splash mountain or thunder. gross!

 

[cb3k]

The "blue" room in the test track queue is the WORST. It is always stuffed with cups, napkins, gum etc...I am always picking up trash that is lying around (mostly in the parking lot).

 

[Glasgow]

I'd bet that most people who litter don't really think about the consequences - they just take the easy route and drop it wherever. Welcome to today's society .. "not my yob". It all starts at home like everything else.

 

[PineapplePrincess]

Last Sunday we were having breakfast at The Land, when a kid spills his chocolate milk all over the place. Now I know that kids spill, but I also know that most parents who know their kid may spill will watch them carefully, or put it in a sippy cup. So not only did a poor CM have to come and clean up the spill, but then they proceded to leave all their trash on the table! So rude!

 

[Tom Morrow]

As a CM, I couldn't agree more with this thread. Like it was stated, there are trash bins EVERYWHERE. Every CM at WDW is constantly picking up trash left on the ground. Its not just up to custodians - guests litter so much that they couldn't possibly keep it clean alone.

Its bad enough to discard your trash on the ground somewhere or in a queue line, but something I absolutely can't stand is when people throw garbage on the ground.... next to a garbage can! Or, people place empty cups/bottles on top of a trash can instead of in it! Seriously, is it really that much harder to put the garbage inside the garbage bin instead of on it??

I think its amazing how, after all the littering guests do, the park is always spotless again by the time it opens the next day.

 

[Disney_Freak429]

As long as its not "sticky" ect. to the point I can't touch it I try & do my part as Disney Freak to keep the parks clean by picking up trash here & there. Its sad that people just throw without looking because you know 99% of the time if they would have turned to their side they would have seen a trash can within a few feet of them.

 

[GenerationX]

According to Disney shows I have seen, they claim Disney researced how far the average walked before dropping a piece of trash & used the number they came up with to place the Trash Cans. Therefore, all Trash Cans are placed no more tha 27 paces apart from the next one.

I have heard this explanation, as well. Not throwing anything on the floor is so ingrained in me that I have a hard time at restaurants where throwing peanut shells on the floor is allowed. It just doesn't feel right. I despise the entitlement mentality some have that the world is their personal garbage can.

 

[BelleWannaBe77]

Sadly it isn't just outside! When I used to work at Bed, Bath and Beyond, there was trash left throughout the store all of the time!!! My last week there I had to clean up a dirty baby's diaper left OPENED on the floor...sick.

 

[Sadiebird]

It's the same mentality that makes people leave shopping carts all over the parking lot, often blocking parking spaces for others.

It's the same mentality that makes smokers leave cigarette butts all over the place.

It's the idea that 'somebody else will take care of it'.

I completely agree with what everyone is saying, however, I discovered a bit of a loop hole with the shopping cart in the parking lot thing since I've had a kid. After loading the groceries in the trunk of my car and then putting my son in the car, I'll admit that I do sometimes leave the cart in the parking lot instead of walking over to the cart return, but only because I don't want to leave my son in the car unattended. But I do always try to place the cart in a spot that's not blocking a space. I also try to park near the cart return so that I don't have to do this, but occasionally I can't find a spot near one.

I used to always get annoyed with people who didn't return their carts, but now that I have a kid, I can kind of understand why it might sometimes happen.