h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi! If you don't already do so, sometimes, just sometimes, take a plastic bag with you next time you go walkies.

Honour the local spirits, and pick up the rubbish left in their domain.
You can also choose to be more scientific about it and think of the potential problems it could cause, if the trash is eventually washed into waterways like streams, rivers, and oceans.
Or you can be "helping the archaeologists of the future" - not by leaving it there so they can "map the migration patterns of the human species" (That would be what the ROAD is for) - but by locating it to the nearest rubbish facility.
Shoot, even if the idea of picking up other people's eyesores is a bit unpalatable, as long as you don't leave yours, then good for you.

Seriously, what possesses some folk to think that the magic "can-collecting fairy" will appear (ESPECIALLY along countryside roads) to remove their discarded bottles, cans, and chippie packets?
Oh wait. That fairy must be me.
I travelled halfway across the world and felt compelled to pick up rubbish on my walks through remoter areas of foreign countries.

It also happens in my own country too. I'm a goody twoshoes perhaps, but I will pick up rubbish at most of the beaches I visit, if I come across it.
This isn't to say that I pick up everything, but if it's plastic or metallic, I probably will, if I see it.

It's really not all that difficult!
Now, if I could just open a temporal hole to "under the bedsheets" of the beds of miscreants, I would cheerfully send their trash back to them.

Alas, I suspect the members of h2g2, being Douglas Adams fans, will already harbour such thoughts (he being somewhat environmentally conscious), so this rant may be wasted here!
I saw some offending trash today - forgive me.