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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:28:01 PM EDT
[#1]
Saw a small Atlantic sturgeon, 3' or so, with a rubber band around and THRU its tail.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:28:06 PM EDT
[#2]
I still cut them up when I see them.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:28:48 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How many bugs do you murder ever time you walk down the sidewalk? How many die on your windshield when you drive to the store to buy food produced by farmers who kill insects by the billions and ranchers that kill cattle by the millions? Or are those animals not cute enough to be valued by you? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted:  sometimes i think humanity really is headed down the path it deserves. can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds to do something that could months or even years of torment for a creature who did nothing but swim into a pile of your trash. How many bugs do you murder ever time you walk down the sidewalk? How many die on your windshield when you drive to the store to buy food produced by farmers who kill insects by the billions and ranchers that kill cattle by the millions? Or are those animals not cute enough to be valued by you?  Denis Leary - No Cure For Cancer - Animal Auditions: Cute Vs Food |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:28:49 PM EDT
[#4]
I was at my mom's house a couple weeks ago when I took the last coke and then started breaking the loops. She started laughing and said she does the same thing. We had a whole conversation and a good laugh about those old commercials and how affective they were.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:29:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You OK mate? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Talk about a psy-op. You OK mate? yes psy-ops are imaginary |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:29:57 PM EDT
[#6]
Don’t be an asshole, don’t litter.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:30:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:37:56 PM EDT
[#8]
I cut them. Easy and if it does any good then great.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 1:48:55 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: OP hates turtles. They make decent soup. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:13:39 PM EDT
[#10]
I grew up as a commercial fisherman on the east coast.
I've seen plenty of seagulls and other marine life trapped in those things.. The gulls never let you get close enough to help, but I tried to many times. I always thought that it was sad. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:15:58 PM EDT
[#11]
Why is garbage ending up in the ocean?
That’s the real issue. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:17:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:30:46 PM EDT
[#13]
All of them I see now are perforated so they tear apart easier, not sure if they're all like that. They still come on beers and gatorades.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:37:21 PM EDT
[#14]
I've worked at a landfill. Gulls, other birds and critters get into the trash and carry things all over creation.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:37:53 PM EDT
[#15]
Any trash I don't burn ends up in a landfill.
There's no fucking sea creatures living in a hole in the ground in western Pennsylvania that I'm aware of. Fuck that hippie bullshit. Trash shouldn't be in the goddamned oceans anyway. I mean, who's fucking fault is THAT? Speed |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:39:47 PM EDT
[#16]
I blame the poors. Who the fuck buys 6 packs of anything?
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:42:09 PM EDT
[#17]
Never cut up your trash traps!
Fuck the raccoon! |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:42:49 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why is garbage ending up in the ocean? That’s the real issue. I always assumed it was people littering, not from our trash |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 2:43:04 PM EDT
[#19]
Following the food pyramid gave me the beetus.
Just kidding, but holymole look it up some time. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:04:30 PM EDT
[#20]
You have not had an exciting day until you try and take one of those things off a pelican.
 I think fishing line kills more birds than 6-pack holders. I pick up all that I come across. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:08:32 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Is New York still hauling it's trash off shore on barges? Or hauling along sea lanes to dump in a landfill in a different state? . No they put it on rail cars and send it up to Niagara Falls to burn it at the convanta plant, they should burn it on the streets of NYC instead. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:10:45 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: sometimes i think humanity really is headed down the path it deserves. can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds to do something that could months or even years of torment for a creature who did nothing but swim into a pile of your trash. So all garbage gets thrown in the ocean? Didn’t know that. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:17:10 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So all garbage gets thrown in the ocean? Didn't know that. I'm more concerned about the notion that trash disposal operations, which are very often contracted by local governments, are now considering the responsibility of regular citizens? WTF is that? I've never been invited to an operations meeting for my local dump  I burn what I can; I do my part Seriously though, I assume the people I pay to haul my trash away aren't letting it fall into the ocean...I don't have any control over that, and as such, it's pretty hard to feel guilty about anything negative done with my trash  Where did this BS guilt shit even come from? Was it those goddamned hyperbolic Weekly Readers from school in the 80's?  Speed |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:20:11 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm more concerned about the notion that trash disposal operations, which are very often contracted by local governments, are now considering the responsibility of regular citizens? WTF is that? I burn what I can; I do my part Seriously though, I assume the people I pay to haul my trash away aren't letting it fall into the ocean...I don't have any control over that, and as such, it's pretty hard to feel guilty about anything negative stuff done with my trash Where did this BS guilt shit even come from? Was it those goddamned hyperbolic Weekly Readers from the school on the 80's? Speed Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So all garbage gets thrown in the ocean? Didn't know that. I'm more concerned about the notion that trash disposal operations, which are very often contracted by local governments, are now considering the responsibility of regular citizens? WTF is that? I burn what I can; I do my part Seriously though, I assume the people I pay to haul my trash away aren't letting it fall into the ocean...I don't have any control over that, and as such, it's pretty hard to feel guilty about anything negative stuff done with my trash Where did this BS guilt shit even come from? Was it those goddamned hyperbolic Weekly Readers from the school on the 80's? Speed I just throw everything in the recycle container. Around here they make convicts sort through it so I get to feel morally superior and keep criminals elbow deep in trash. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:20:30 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: sometimes i think humanity really is headed down the path it deserves. can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds to do something that could months or even years of torment for a creature who did nothing but swim into a pile of your trash. Does your garbage pickup dump your trash into an ocean? Mine does not. It goes into a landfill that doesn't have marine life swimming in it. Your post is the exact point the OP was making. I thought cities on the coasts dump their trash in the ocean? (I could be wrong) You’ve never seen garbage barges? They have to be ‘x’ amount of miles off the coast and they can dump garbage |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:20:31 PM EDT
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Deleted several responses that would get me banned from this sensitive place. Glad the OP is so enlightened.
Even our somewhat small lake has had problems in the past. I have caught fish on the down hill that swallowed a pull tab. Unwound and cut plenty of line from animals. Probably to no avail, but I tried. It happens. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:22:48 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: More and more of your true colors shine through with every post Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: sometimes i think humanity really is headed down the path it deserves. can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds to do something that could months or even years of torment for a creature who did nothing but swim into a pile of your trash. More and more of your true colors shine through with every post However in this case he is pretty much correct. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:25:11 PM EDT
[#28]
I cut mine up in pieces
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:25:35 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just throw everything in the recycle container. Around here they make convicts sort through it so I get to feel morally superior and keep criminals elbow deep in trash. I did not know that. When I was a FedEx driver, I routinely threw my piss bottles into the recycle bin because I wanted to look good on camera and assumed it was a profit losing, bullshit government subsidized industry and would just be in a landfill anyway. The fact that some recycling operations use legal prison slave labor (as excluded in the 14th amendment) makes me kinda giggle that some hood rat had to dump out my dark, nasty, whiskey piss all the time  Speed |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:25:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:29:46 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: are they even on the market these days? I don't remember the last time I saw one. Sure, 6 pack of the 16.9oz bottles, and a variety of the power/Gatorade beverages. Plastic wrapped plastic, for double the pollution fun. I say melt 'em all, let god sort them out. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:29:57 PM EDT
[#32]
I always cut them up. Just in case.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:30:29 PM EDT
[#33]
Meanwhile, in the 3rd World the river is in charge of recycling:
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:33:48 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There is a marine rescue near my place in florida. They get sea turtles stuck in those. I always cut them before throwing them away. True, but as OP said, they were probably thrown on the beach. Not thrown in the trash. Not too many sea turtles crawl thru sanitary landfills or recycling centers. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:35:36 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: sometimes i think humanity really is headed down the path it deserves. can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds to do something that could months or even years of torment for a creature who did nothing but swim into a pile of your trash.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 3:36:33 PM EDT
[#36]
Our trash used to be incinerated, now it's 100% landfill. Why cut them up if you know your waste will not reach the sea unless a massive geologic event occurs?
Kharn |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:08:30 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I did not know that. When I was a FedEx driver, I routinely threw my piss bottles into the recycle bin because I wanted to look good on camera and assumed it was a profit losing, bullshit government subsidized industry and would just be in a landfill anyway. The fact that some recycling operations use legal prison slave labor (as excluded in the 14th amendment) makes me kinda giggle that some hood rat had to dump out my dark, nasty, whiskey piss all the time Speed Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I just throw everything in the recycle container. Around here they make convicts sort through it so I get to feel morally superior and keep criminals elbow deep in trash. I did not know that. When I was a FedEx driver, I routinely threw my piss bottles into the recycle bin because I wanted to look good on camera and assumed it was a profit losing, bullshit government subsidized industry and would just be in a landfill anyway. The fact that some recycling operations use legal prison slave labor (as excluded in the 14th amendment) makes me kinda giggle that some hood rat had to dump out my dark, nasty, whiskey piss all the time Speed I'm sure they're used to it. Probably all ex Fedex drivers anyway. 
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:11:36 PM EDT
[#38]
Quoted: I remember seeing it as a kid and everyone saying you have to cut up the rings before putting them in the trash so you won't kill the animals. Talk about a psy-op. The chances of that ever happening have to be about zero but yet I've always cut them up without even giving it a thought. Today I thought about it and realized how stupid it is. And how effective the media can be. It really opened my eyes and allowed me to understand those around us that are completely brainwashed. Anybody else remember those videos on the news as a kid? I remember teachers went on about it too. My wife, who grew up 4 hours away from my had the same experience and has always cut them up too. I've talked to others about it and they still cut them up as well. Pretty eye opening Most will argue it’s a minor inconvenience for you and a major inconvenience or death sentence for an animal that can’t pull it off it’s head. There are better hills to die on than this. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:14:41 PM EDT
[#39]
We would break them so it stayed in a line. Attached to a stick. Held it over a fire and watched it "zit-zoot"..... good times
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:45:18 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember that, but I don’t think I’ve seen a the old style plastic six pack yoke in years. They’re all in cardboard boxes or the plastic snap on lid six pack yoke these days. This. I can’t recall the last time I actually saw one of them. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:45:58 PM EDT
[#41]
I cut two of them today.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:56:15 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I cut them up and I will continue to cut them up. This. I am about as far from an envroweenie as it gets but I abhor litter and wanton destruction of nature for no good reason. Where I grew up our trash was loaded on barges and dumped offshore so I could see the 6 pack thing being an issue. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:57:58 PM EDT
[#43]
Still cut them up.
Shit, I still shake milk. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:59:02 PM EDT
[#44]
Quoted: There is a marine rescue near my place in florida. They get sea turtles stuck in those. I always cut them before throwing them away. Quoted: I remember that, but I don’t think I’ve seen a the old style plastic six pack yoke in years. They’re all in cardboard boxes or the plastic snap on lid six pack yoke these days. same here |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 4:59:38 PM EDT
[#45]
1970s.
I still cut those things up. Cut some up today. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 5:00:13 PM EDT
[#46]
Not an enviro guy. I always cut mine up.
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Posted: 9/6/2021 5:02:35 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: sometimes i think humanity really is headed down the path it deserves. can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds to do something that could months or even years of torment for a creature who did nothing but swim into a pile of your trash. Why is my trash, that I am paying to dispose of, going to end up in the ocean? I can think of a million other things I throw away that wouldn't be great for animals to play with. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 5:19:51 PM EDT
[#48]
i save them up and once a month use an old tire to start a fire and burn them up
you're welcome mother earth 
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Posted: 9/6/2021 5:22:06 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember the commercials and yes, I still cut up the plastic thingies. It only takes a few seconds. Maybe it is a waste of time, but it's worth it if you're the critter that gets its neck stuck. My attitude as well. |
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Posted: 9/6/2021 5:27:09 PM EDT
[#50]
A Public Service Announcement inspired by this thread:
 Save The Turtles | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim |
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