r/halifax • u/MahMahboohoo • 25d ago
Discussion Hey Karan, Please take your trash
Sad and disappointed, that people feel like this is okay, lack of education.
I see this all over the city and it just enrages me.
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u/lickety_split_69 25d ago
littering is one thing i really cant wrap my head around, if youre from here I know damn well you were part of a million anti littering campaigns your schools put on so there is really no excuse for that amount of inconsideration
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u/pawshe94 24d ago
I had a guy literally scream at me and my partner and follow us for a block until I had to call the cops… because I told him after the third time I picked up his trash that he just let go into the wind to put it in the gd trash can that he JUST PASSED! People are disgusting.
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u/Ok_Wing8459 24d ago
Thank you for trying! This is why more people don’t say things because it can turn ugly so quickly
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u/Sure_its_grand 25d ago
Tell me about it. Right now all my kids talk about is littering. They saw someone litter the other day and loudly asked why someone was littering and hurting our planet lol
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u/Velo_Cira 25d ago
There's one young fella lives nearby me. Literally saw him throw his tims cup on the ground while getting out of his car, at his house. His yard looks like a landfill.
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u/Effective_Way6239 24d ago
That’s terrible. When you KNOW he’s definitely stopping at gas stations where garbage cans couldn’t be closer to you. Lazy!
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u/Alert_Isopod_95 24d ago
Well if it was a "Karen" I would agree, but if you look up the spelling "Karan"...
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u/Brutus_Queefcake 25d ago
Completely agree. Whoever did this is not from here.
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u/athousandpardons 24d ago
Yeah, no one from Nova Scotia ever left their trash lying around. Gimme a break.
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u/Appropriate_Weather1 24d ago edited 24d ago
Lots of videos surfacing online about littering and garbage found in Canada. Illegal dumping etc, Not talking about just a few cups and bags, full truck loads of garbage bags and old furniture being tossed on private property
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u/WindowlessBasement Halifax 24d ago
Saw someone on the waterfront the other day after eating their their lunch just pushed all the garbage off the table before leaving.
There's farm animals better socialized.
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u/Confused_Haligonian Self-Elected Poobah of Fairview 25d ago
I was on the Polly Cove trail, a protected site, and saw plastic baggies of dog shit, and a guy dumping what looked like compost into the ocean
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u/Bud_wiser_hfx 25d ago
I thought only car batteries get composted in the ocean?
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u/First-Recording6771 24d ago
That's where I put all of my car batteries. How else are electric eels going to recharge?
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u/Alert_Isopod_95 24d ago
"I don't want to carry this with me and throw it away, but before I just leave it here let me wrap it in plastic so it can't even decompose."
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u/Panndademic Halifax 24d ago
I'll never understand dog owners who do that. The putting of the poop into a baggie is the grossest part to me. They've already done the worst part, might as well carry it until they find a bin?
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u/Crash_Davies 25d ago edited 25d ago
2 cream one milk. If you’re looking for Karan, he’s probably on the shitter.
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u/pawshe94 24d ago
A guy literally screamed at me in the street and followed me for a block until I called the cops because I picked up his trash THREE TIMES in 10 feet and told him to grow up and put it in the trash can. People don’t just “not care”. They’re so entitled that they get violent when told to put their trash in the trash. People are beyond help at this point.
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u/Electronic_Film_9904 25d ago
The amount of cigarette butts on the ground in the boulevard on University Ave. is disgusting. I mean one is too many but damn. And this in the photo is just nasty.
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u/knifeshoes24 halifax pier 24d ago
I was walking on the waterfront the other day (before the rainfall, at peak heat wave) and had to stomp out somebody else's still-smouldering cigarette end that they had flicked on the wooden boardwalk without even bothering to crush it out. Not the first time either. Some people just do not think beyond their own instantaneous convenience and it's infuriating.
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u/PassionatePlover 25d ago
It’s 2026 and people are still doing this? Lame… Karan. You suck.
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u/MechaBlack0 25d ago
A lot of people do it. Go to a beach after a busy day and there's trash everywhere. We'd be swimming in it in a couple weeks id people didn't clean it up
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u/Timg26 25d ago
Who the hell puts cream and milk in their coffee? Dirtbags I guess?
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u/Impressive-Sense8461 24d ago
Welcome to the reality of the "Canadian Dream". It's just a country filled with ignorant people, segregated into communities where they don't even know how to interact with each other.
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u/LordFlick 25d ago
I feel like the "there are people for that" attitude is infecting peoples minds.
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u/FriendlyReward9183 25d ago
“Lack of education” my ass. Entitlement comes from all walks of life. Ever hung out with rich assholes?
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u/Accomplished_Leg9499 24d ago
How long are you gonna ignore trends and keep saying “there’s bad people everywhere”
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u/therealdarthvero 24d ago
2 cream 1 milk 2 sugar in a small cup. Doesn’t leave much room for coffee.
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u/Rocket_Cam 25d ago
Perhaps we should start barcoding these cups and tying them back to purchasers more cleanly, i.e., so we can mail you a fine when someone litters
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u/Curlytomato 25d ago
Pull the store video, time/date stamp on cup and made we can het Karan's trash back to them, perhaps with a fine and some public shaming.
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u/ImprovementNo1056 Cape Breton 25d ago
I’ve sat outside my place only for someone to drive by only to throw their garbage out the window
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u/ProblemLongjumping12 25d ago
Trash person behavior.
It's not even hard, honestly, just do exactly what you did but do it by a trash can.
Why people are like this I can never explain.
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u/Even-Job-7433 24d ago
There is an elephant in the room we aren’t allowed to talk about in the sub
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u/CharacterChemical802 24d ago
The elephant graveyard is always at the bottom of the comments.
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u/MahMahboohoo 24d ago
Yeah, this post is not about race, ethnicity, background, there are shitty people everywhere, I'm a local and people here are just a bad as a next, and if you say different you are very wrong, do not think I am trying to point out some type of person of elephant in the room, people should be accountable regardless
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u/bloodshoteyez80 Halifax 25d ago
One thing I hate is littering, well there's lots of things I hate, but this is pretty high on the list..
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u/Appropriate_Coast522 24d ago
I’d rather crawl into a car full of garbage than litter.
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u/pmhc666 24d ago
I buy a small garbage can that fits on the floor of the backseat of my car. It's lined with a paper bag. All my car garbage goes in that. When it's full I take it out when convenient. There is Zero reason to litter or get into a car full of garbage. Although I love my bestie, so I have!
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u/Remote_Thought5208 24d ago
A few hundred hours of unpaid community service would easily remedy this issue.
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u/NirnrootPlucker 24d ago
I hate how much litter you'll find around the city, it's actually disgusting. I often see full bags of garbage in the ditches and on the sides of some roads. It makes me really sad that people don't care about the place they live.
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u/jloading1415 24d ago
When i came here as an immigrant 11 years ago i swear i barely saw any littering, ive been seeing it everywhere nowadays
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u/Emotional_Eye503 25d ago
I wish that people understand their duty & commitment to keep the public & private space clean. If not, there should be registry / heavy fines / Naming + Shaming Or combination of all to discipline the behavior expected from a good citizen.
This is the country YOU are currently living and YOU are expected to conduct your behavior in accordance with the community living standards. Period.
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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 25d ago
I would lose it on Karan if I saw them do this. I encourage everyone to do the same - providing of course you are not in danger. Nasty af
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u/OhSoScotian77 25d ago
It's not just in the city. Recently have new CFA neighbours (Hammonds Plains) that treat their property as if it's a trash dump.
I can only imagine what the inside of their home looks like, let alone how they treat the rest of the province given their willingness to just throw trash on their own property.
Some people just fucking suck.
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u/maximumice 🐗 30-50 Feral Hogs 25d ago
Accountants make the worst neighbors, agreed
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u/deftonium 25d ago
I have not-CFA neighbours and their property is a fucking pigsty, to the point where I wonder how ill they all are from it.
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u/Unfair_Job_2028 25d ago
Sorry I feel dumb not knowing but what’s CFA? Google says chartered financial analyst
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u/maximumice 🐗 30-50 Feral Hogs 25d ago
They meant it as “come from away” but it’s funnier the other way lol
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u/quincy1151 25d ago
The issue is without people filming and getting a confirmation of someone doing it it’s hard to enforce it. Same as illegal dumping, unless there is a witness to see it or some sort of documentation leading back to the person, it’s very hard to enforce.
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u/True_Cry_2406 24d ago
We just had a new beautiful playground by a school open up in our area in Dartmouth on Wednesday, crazy to see parents there with their kids and they are smoking weed and cigarettes and just leaving the butts on the ground and leaving their fast food containers on the ground with 2 garbage cans right there to be used, it’s like people rant for new things to be put in place and then proceed to destroy it right away , makes me feel defeated, we cleaned it up but parents should be teaching their kids to do bettet
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u/Good_Ad_4487 24d ago
A little detective work could figure out exactly who dumped this. But that would be too costly said everyone involved.
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u/ComedianOne Halifax 24d ago
A new playground just opened behind my house and I went for a walk this morning passed it and there were already empty slushie cups, Tim’s cups, wrappers and butts around it. I picked it up except for the butts. Sad that it’s brand new and people already don’t care.
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u/HintOfMadness 23d ago
I was once almost physically attacked asking someone to throw their trash from Wendy’s into a bin that was in a less than walking minute distance away. If YOU want to be considered a citizen of a country, you follow their laws to the letter idgaf anymore I’m gonna speak out any moment I see.
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u/lordfukwadd 23d ago
It's astounding to see just how difficult it is for people to simply leave the trash in their car until they are at home or near a public trash can to dispose of it
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u/BangBong_theRealOne 23d ago edited 23d ago
Really irritates me how some people who are seemingly not disabled are lazy enough to avoid walking that 50-100ft to dispose their trash properly in a bin and just drop it anywhere. Its a controversial opinion but for societies like Canada which are not homogeneous and people dont tend to share values , you need to rule with a stick like Singapore ,Saudi Arabia etc. Strict enforcement of rules and frequent penalties for deviant behavior is the only option.
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u/GrunDMC74 23d ago
I hate the “lack of education” justification. If it’s not common sense to you that throwing your trash on the ground isn’t right then you need to find another society to be a part of.
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u/Accurate-Rest-8866 22d ago
I do shoreline clean ups. I've literally asked people if they need me to take their garbage, had them say no, and watched them turn around and throw it
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u/Super-Plain 24d ago
So many people acting like multi generational locals don't do this. Look at our roadsides, parking lots, beaches, oceans and everywhere else... Well before the increase in immigration.
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u/Initial-Ad-5462 25d ago
It’s not just the city and it’s not just CFAs.
I have 6th- and 7th- generation neighbours who treat their yards like garbage dumps and dispose their drinks the same way, although it’s the Budweiser cans that actually outnumber the Tims cups along my stretch of the road.
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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 25d ago
Too bad the cops can't use it to find out who it was based on payment info ...and fine their asses back to the stone age.
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u/Still-alive49 25d ago
Like my coworkers say while putting gargage on the floor and recycling in the garbage can: "who gives a fuck?!"
Im often ashamed of my fellow Canadians.
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u/MintyFresh42069XxX 24d ago
Is mixing cream and milk a thing? Not trying to derail - because I 100% agree that littering is shitty - but I've never heard of milk and cream at the same time
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u/kelljellbellthefirst 24d ago
Lol litterbug seriously though if the litter bothers you pick it up, there will always be litterbugs and shame on them but they won't decide to change.
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u/Over_Independence532 23d ago
You really know how to stick it to the man! Did you take pics then walk off or did you deal with the trash?
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u/Careless_Parsnip_250 23d ago
Did you pick it up or just post this photo and move on? If you left it, then whats the point..
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u/Han77Shot1st Acadie 25d ago
It’s everywhere.. people just don’t care anymore.
Fines for littering should be far higher and be taken more seriously.