We have a beautiful small Mediterranean Pine forest near my home. Filled to the brim with small black plastic bags filled with dog poop. I think I even took pictures of it once. Enjoy nature!
Lots of the bags are bio-degradable, so they will eventually, in some unit of months or years, break down.
Of course, its the same issue as chucking a banana peel. It fucks with the local environment and will take a long time to be “gone” if you just throw it into a forest and walk away. Enough people do that, and eventually you have a trail covered in shit and bananas.
Important point: “Biodegradable” plastic doesn’t biodegrade in the same way as something like a banana. It disinitegrates to the point that it is invisible to humans, but it introduces microplastics into the environment.
My favorite are dog owners that do pick up after their dogs but then fling the bag into the trees or bushes along the trail.
Yes that dog doo is not preserved for future generations. Thanks.
We have a beautiful small Mediterranean Pine forest near my home. Filled to the brim with small black plastic bags filled with dog poop. I think I even took pictures of it once. Enjoy nature!
Found the pictures!
Looks like a planted forest.
It is! I think it was planted in the 1950s
Black plastic bags aside, it looks like a nice place for a stroll and a picnic
Never in my life did I expect to see a forest of all things enter the uncanny valley.
Yeah like it would’ve been better to leave the doo there, now you’ve littered shit AND a bag.
Can someone, anyone, please explain why someone would do this?
Not picking it up in the first place, though wrong, at least makes sense. But this is just crazy
I guess they pick it up only if someone is nearby. As soon as noone sees it they throw it anywhere.
Ohh thanks! That would make perfect sense
Lots of the bags are bio-degradable, so they will eventually, in some unit of months or years, break down.
Of course, its the same issue as chucking a banana peel. It fucks with the local environment and will take a long time to be “gone” if you just throw it into a forest and walk away. Enough people do that, and eventually you have a trail covered in shit and bananas.
Important point: “Biodegradable” plastic doesn’t biodegrade in the same way as something like a banana. It disinitegrates to the point that it is invisible to humans, but it introduces microplastics into the environment.
I think there are cellulose based bags that are basically “plant plastic” that do finally break down, but its over the course of years.
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