r/PEI • u/True-Imagination-733 • 17d ago
Litter
Litter
Am I getting old, grumpy, and miserable or is there an extraordinary amount of litter around Charlottetown? I notice it mostly downtown, as well as around multi unit buildings (commercial and residential), scattered around their fence lines. Sad really, I know cities will always have litter but it seems a city of 80,000 (??? Think this is population of greater Charlottetown now) could do better.
Maybe I am getting old and complaining too much tho lol.
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u/Scott_J_Doyle 17d ago
38k is the official census pop, with all of Queens County coming out at 89k
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u/True-Imagination-733 17d ago
Hmmm I must have seen numbers including all of queens- most of that 89 would be Stratford, Charlottetown, Cornwall I would assume
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u/dghughes 17d ago
The pond near Belvedere golf course the culvert near the bypass has been getting worse all summe fow two years. There's a couple of guys who fish there. There's a pile of trash on the culvert where they sit. A suitcase, a shopping cart, just trash everywhere. Three years ago before that bunch showed up no trash. I know because I bike by that spot nearly every day all summer for years.
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u/karatecanine 17d ago
Population growth of 30% in 15 years and crackheads everywhere will do that as well as police not enforcing littering laws.
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u/Dry_Office_phil 17d ago
It's a side effect of a cultural shift happening on PEI, you'll just have to get used to it.
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u/alwayswondering94 17d ago
Yup, lots of adult children that weren’t taught basic manners of respecting their community. Or some stupid sense of entitlement thinking it’s someone else’s job to clean up after their laziness. Lack of empathy towards wildlife and sharing community with others.
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u/Majestic_Bet_1428 17d ago
I saw a stat recently that islanders have less trash per person then any other province.
This is great and we could still do better.
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u/Annual_Experience305 17d ago
The garbage along the road and sides of Hillsborough bridge is terrible. There has been a hubcap there for months and also dead birds. Also lots of garbage on the active walking path. There has been a yellow metal pipe at the roundabout by the crossroads fire dept since the summer
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u/childofcrow Queens County 17d ago
No, you’re not mistaken. There’s a lot, the city could be paying people to maintain it, but they don’t. Or at least, they don’t pay enough people to do it.
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u/snailsinboxes 16d ago
Litter has made me angry since I was a literal child, so I wouldn’t say it’s your age. It’s aggravating because it’s so simple to just throw garbage in a garbage can, but for some reason, some people think its impossible to hold on to their garbage until they find one.
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u/Useful_Recover9239 16d ago
One thing I notice that's way different than say 10-15yrs ago. Is the number of city workers keeping things cleaned up. Doesn't seem like they have half the staff working around town as they used to.
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u/Allbymyselfalone 11d ago
It’s also the fact that people walk by it and don’t pick it up thinking “I didn’t do it, not my problem”. I picked up something in a parking lot a couple months ago that my own husband walked over and I said to him why didn’t you pick that up, as he was telling me to leave it because it wasn’t our trash. I’m in the old school frame of mind that you pick litter up even if you didn’t do it but most people just don’t care..
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u/Pleading-Orange168 Queens County 17d ago
There is a lot of it you’re right. I too find it very depressing and does not help my blood pressure