I got called a litter bug for dumping leftover ice on the road.Clean ice.From a cup.

OK, I'm not a neat freak, but.....
Apple core---biodegradable, probably take 10-14 days to break down to "fertilizer", unless a critter eats it----then their "poo" would only take 7-10 days.
Banana peel---biodegradable, but how many weeks to disappear? And not as tasty for peter Rabbit
Cigarette butts-----months to years to "degrade"
And the best---peanut shells on a green----quite a while to break down, although the mower will get it the next morning In the meantime, I'm a pretty good golfer but I never learned to read which way a peanut shell breaks.
The first time I visited TV, I was amazed at the lack of litter---let's keep it that way--If I want litter, I'll move back to Bill Deblasio's NYC.

"Give it a rest..." LoveMyCat, on another thread you upheld people's right to express an opinion and took people to task for objecting to what was said. Now you're doing the same thing. Rubicon has every right to express his opinion without being told to give it a rest.

Nobody has a right to order anyone else on this forum to do anything.

Yes, an apple core or banana peel is biodegradable.

But starting in 3rd grade, we were taught to not LITTER, not to pick and choose what would rot or be taken away by animals. We were taught "No Littering", period.

And we were held to that rule and highway laws all the way thru school and until.....

.....we got to the Me, Me, Me Era:

"It's all about me. If you don't like my litter, then YOU pick it up."

Problem is, we're not third graders. We're supposed to be grown-ups.

Opinion: Why you don't throw trash out the window - CNN.com

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Thank you CFrance!

You tell her, CFrance!

:coolsmiley: (But do you own a football helmet?)

My opinion is that no one on the forum has the right to tell another person what to do or not to do. If Rubicon wants to post about what he perceives to be a wrong, that is his right without being told to "give it a rest."

Post you opinions; don't tell another person not to post theirs.

Please address your posts to the original topic.

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I agree that such things are biodegradable and landfills aren't the best place for them, but in an urban environment, it is still littering. If one feels strongly, one should take it home and compost it in one's own backyard.

I so agree with Rubicon and Sunnyatlast and CFrance on this issue.

My kids would know better than to try that biodegradable comeback with me because I would tell them they were lazy.

Every girl scout was taught to "leave a place cleaner than they found it" and I too love, love, love the clean streets and stretches of grass without litter. It was the number one thing that sold me on this place.

I remember each June that we are beginning to have a lot of young visitors because I begin to see the plastic bottles along the edges of the streets and wrappers too.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, my grandmother said. Nothing yet happened in my life to change my mind on that.

Things are changing with each generation but I like our ways here in The Villages.

Actually I don't have a problem with an apple core. Squirrels will be dancing with delight at such a treat but, I walked through a new area where there were a few homes still being completed. The trash from the workers all up and down the street was disgusting. I'm not talking about a little here and there but garbage lining both sides of the street and even up and down Morse north of Osceola. I think the superintendent should step in and say something like anyone caught tossing garbage on the streets and caught twice has to hit the road. It really was that bad. Shame on you workers.

I agree with not littering no matter what the material is. Your mentioning leaving a place cleaner than you found it jogs my memory... We were taught when you have compostable material but can't compost, bury it.

In any event, throwing it on the street is just not right.

Keep America Beautiful! Remember that commercial with the older American Indian looking at trash and a tear rolling down his cheek? I was a kid when that commercial played and it struck a chord in me. I never litter and always pick up litter I see on my walks with Bentley. Yes, other people's cigarette butts, apple cores, plastic bottles, etc. One bag for Bentley's waste and another bag for everybody else. I feel like if I am not part of the solution I am part of the problem.