Mississauga

hm, as a prior fast food worker, I can tell you the company is paying for the garbage removal regardless - they're going to end up paying an employee to go and pick up all that trash, and a trashcan would be more efficient in terms of labor hours and wages spent, so you would think the company has an incentive to optimize the flow of trash to reduce costs ...

This is just my speculation based on observation, but companies are rarely well-managed anymore, and solid business practices like optimizing to reduce expenses and focusing on generating profit through selling valuable products and services seems to be outmoded.

Instead it seems like more money is being made these days with grifts and scams (like intentionally creating an investment bubble through hype and then making money by shorting and leaving the gullible people who fell for the hype holding the bag). Crypto has become more attractive than oil stocks, for example. Fundamentals are disregarded, and more and more companies seem to act in irrational ways.

You have to pay an employee to empty trash cans and put in new bags. They want to pay less employees.

I also keep a trash can in my car and empty itaybe monthly (I mainly throw away crushed plastic water bottles and napkins).

I started doing this when I realized nearly every public trash can at any fast food/breakfast/coffee shop/gas station was overflowing.

This builds a culture of IDGAF and people litter. Begs the question that part of the core issue is standardized reusable cups (8oz, 12oz, 16oz) maybe with a credit like $0.05 every time you use it? It would require a cup washing station.

I think most coffee shops would use your tumbler but idk what the process for cleaning it during your several coffee refills throughout the day.

Agree. I live in the US where it's hit or miss to find trash cans out in public. If there is no trash bin, paper waste just goes into my pockets. Stuff that won't fit in my pockets goes into my bag until I get home. The places I have lived, just about my whole life, are full of fucking litter, and it pissed me off so much I refuse to litter. I caught one neighbor throw trash on the ground in front of her yard. I said, "This is your home, why are you throwing trash where you live? Don't you want your house to look nice?" Her response was, "I don't care, the state is paying the rent." I would say in this instance it isn't about poverty, or getting government assistance, it's a person feeling no connection to the community around them, so they just don't give a fuck.

yes, the suppliers design the system consumers operate within, and then victim-blame the consumers when they live within that system

even worse, anti-littering campaigns were designed and funded by these large corporations to distract from actual environmental disasters like rising greenhouse gases and oil spills that were causing the real harm, and which were more directly caused by these corporations

I've watched young kids habituate littering - I do think it's partially how people are raised, what social influences there are.

It might be that it's viewed as a big deal or wrong by outsider authorities that are disrespected within the family and in-group, not as simple as never being exposed to it being wrong, it might be a matter of cultural place and values situated in communities of poverty and oppression, for example.

Not that this explains all littering, but I do think cultural aspects are relevant (as another user pointed out about how Japan does not have a littering problem, though who knows whether this is because nobody litters or because Japan invests more in street cleaning, or some combination of both - we would need to dig into that more).

Oh, so these are repeat customers deciding to toss their trash at the very place they got it from last time? Insult to injury!

And yeah, I've never seen garbage bins at a drive thru. Throw your shit away when you get home, people!

well lets see, the food is trash, the way the regulars talk about it, the way regulars throw cups all over the town, the over the top "candadian" branding when its not even canadian owned, the coffee is terrible, the service is terrible, the pay is terrible and the job is terrible.

surely theres other reasons, but thats a few

They don't hire Canadians. Fuck tim hortons

An example, I was on a road trip after a flight, Tims was the only thing open at a roadside stop. I ordered a multigrain bagel. It had zero taste and the texture of sawdust and cardboard. It was so bad I tossed half of it in the garbage. While I like good food, I will also just eat what is available, but this was so terrible I couldn't finish it.

You can throw your cups out at the house when you arrive home directly into your blue bins.

Disgusting culture / people who do this.

I sure see a lot of Mc Dicks trash all over the place.