I know this isn't a wedding etiquette issue, but I think of it more as an environmental etiquette problem and I need to vent.
I was driving to work this morning and the guy a ways in front of me threw an empty can out the window--while we were driving, not even stopped at a light. Then like 2 miles later he threw a cigarette butt out the window and it hit my front windshield. So that got me thinking about this other guy DH and I saw on our HM in the Keys a few weeks ago. He was pulling out of a boat launching area, had obviously just left the water, and he threw a wrapper on the road. That told us he likely tossed his garbage out in the water too.
I don't understand this mentality. I don't understand why people feel they have the right to treat the world as their own personal garbage can. When I worked at the zoo, people would toss stuff into animal enclosures and we almost had a baby giraffe die after swallowing a plastic spoon. Or they would throw cigarette butts and other stuff at the monkeys for a laugh. The only thrill I got from that was yelling at them and calling them ignorant or whatever name I could get away with without being fired. At my college, people would throw cigarette buts and wrappers everywhere. When you looked in the plant beds all you saw was trash.
I live in Florida, and my DH is about to be sent off by the state to help with the oil spill, so seeing people litter makes me extra pissy. It's bad enough the world is overun with stupid people. It's bad enough our entire state, as well as several others, will be ruined from the oil. Why contribute to the complete massacre of the land? It makes me both sad and furious to know people are so ignorant, or flat-out careless.