The world is a rubbish bin...

Or, at least that's how it looks walking around in London. Everywhere I look, there are cigarette butts, beer cans, assorted other beverage receptacles, McDonald's bags, old appliances, etc. Hell, there was a mattress on the sidewalk for a couple of days, and there is a baby bottle still filled with milk that has been on a window sill down the street from where I work since I started working here 3 weeks ago!

And, it's everywhere. There isn't a street I've walked down where I haven't seen any trash, and the areas along the train tracks are covered in crap. I don't know about other places, because I've never noticed it to this extent, but I know that in North Carolina, we have crews that clean up the sides of the major roads every so often, and people will clean crap out of the ditch in front of their own yard.

This could be attributable to the size of the population here vs NC. I understand that the more people you have the more trash that will be generated. Add to this the idea that the larger number of people guarantees a larger number of thoughtless people who don't really think about what they are doing when they throw their paper coffee cup onto the tracks at the train station, etc.

This could also be due to a lack of trash bins. Sometimes, it seems impossible to find a place to throw out my stuff, and I carry around an empty Pepsi bottle for a long time before I find a bin. I doubt that is the reason why, though, because even in places where there are trash bins, there is still a bunch of crap thrown around.

Oh, well, that was my observation for the day.