My brother and I hunted moose in Newfoundland. Flew into a camp on a lake. Each of us had a packed lunch and everyday the guides just threw their trash on the ground after they ate.
Hunted the Yukon for moose.Flew into a little lake that had a little stream feeding it that connected to other little lakes. Canoed from lake to lake.Everywhere we went ashore to call you would find signs of a fire pit and trash. Didn’t expect that in either location.
I can’t say I’m the least bit proud of this but I will say it was a universal problem, a generation ago, back in the 1940/50/60s.
I was still a kid then.
It was common place for everyone, every where, at least in the rural areas of Southern Alberta, Montana and Idaho, where I traveled regularly…… to throw trash out the window of the vehicle you were driving in. Paper food sacks, cans, pop and beer bottles…… you name it… out the window it went and was swallowed up in the gravel road side weeds and over growth. There where few asphalt highways and the burrow pits were not mowed and bailed like they are today. And the culture was different, it was simply normal behavior.
I remember moving to Las Vegas Nevada in 1968. Traveled the road from Las Vegas to Boulder City everyday for about 8 months. It was different than the grass road sides I’d grown up in. There was not a blade of grass, weeds or sage on that highway, just bare desert sand and gravel, for every mile. There must have been 10,000 beer and/or pop bottles laying exposed next to the highway, between the two cities. So many, we would entertain ourselves, coming and going, shooting at those bottles, shooting marbles, with a wrist rocket/flipper out of a window of the passenger side of the vehicle……. going 60 miles an hour.
The point being, trash was treated by people differently then and apparently still is in some places. It a culture thing and I recall how hard it was for government officials to get people to stop throw trash out their windows. In those days we considered it government over reach. lol
It’s better today and like I said, I’m not proud of it but I do understand how people that are used to living that way didn’t it see like we do. Culture has a powerful influence on us.