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Location: NW WI | One conversation lead to another at work today. I'm passing the question onto you folks to see if there's a average. So we basically came up with this list of beverage based trash found in the outdoors (trails,landings,in the water, on the shore, middle of the woods, etc.) We all agreed that landings and dams by far had the most litter.
This is in order from the most commonly found litter-
ALUMINUM CANS:
1-Twisted Tea
2-Coors Lite
3-White Claw
4-Diet Coke
5-Mtn Dew
GLASS BOTTLES:
1-Michelob Golden Light
2-Bud Light
3-Budweisser
4-Corona
5-Heineken
What are you guys finding?
Edited by 7.62xJay 2/7/2022 10:01 PM
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| I walk outside just about every day, for 45 minutes to an hour. There are two nearby bars. This time of the year the trash tends to get covered quickly in the snow but light beers and hard seltzers are the most common cans, with diet coke the most common soda can. Bud light bottles are most common glass but not a lot of them. For a while along part of my route on a county highway there were dozens of those tiny plastic liquor bottles, vodka, rum mostly. This past summer and fall, not many. Whoever was tossing those most have moved, changed their drinking patterns, etc. One of my routes is the road to a lakeside bar near me on a dead-end road and lately I have been seeing a number of Keystone beer cans but they don't serve that at the bar. That is kind of a puzzler. Maybe somebody keeps cheap beer in the truck to drink to and from the bar?
Overall, a lot beverage containers. Be a lot worse if not for volunteers who clean the highway ditches and shoulders.
When I used to work as a clean boats/clean water volunteer at the boat landing, not a lot of beer cans but many empty Mtn. Dew and water bottles. I always took a kitchen garbage bag along and picked up trash to kill time and that was what I noticed. What really bugged me there was how much fishing line got dumped, mostly mono but also braid. All that crap goes back into the lake and makes a mess. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | We have a wide spot in our country road just down from the house, where the old RR track was. It became a local party spot. I didn't mind going over Sunday while walking the dog to pick up a few beer cans and a condom or two.
When we started finding needles, we had the Twp. post it 'no parking'. m |
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Location: oswego, il | I see more worm containers than anything else. It would be an amusing survey. I never understood the fascination with flavored carbonated water we used to clean the grill with it when I worked for a.pizza place. You can't put enough lipstick on that pig. |
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Location: NW WI | ToddM - 2/8/2022 8:29 AM
I see more worm containers than anything else. It would be an amusing survey. I never understood the fascination with flavored carbonated water we used to clean the grill with it when I worked for a.pizza place. You can't put enough lipstick on that pig.
Well so our whole conversation started with us giving eachother a hard time about about our alcohol preferences. The one young buck said he's normally either drinking PBR,Twisted Tea, or Coors light.My personal preference being dark Dark Beer,Whiskey or rum straight;naturally I had to give em a hard time. Than I stated that I see more cans of Twisted Tea,White Claw, and Coors Light littered throughout public outdoor recreation areas above all else. Conversation developed from there.
That being said, I'm with you on the Seltzer craze man. I don't understand it all, I'd take tap water with my dinner over that stuff. However "Mighty Swell Watermelon Mint" is pretty darn nice after a scorcher under the sun. But I'm also a Sap for mint so... |
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Location: oswego, il | Never tried that one. So far everyone I've bought and tried I felt like a raccoon in a leg trap. |
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| The hard seltzer appeal eludes me, but a lot of folks seem to enjoy. Bar across the lake from us has music outside every Sunday afternoon from Memorial Day to Labor Day. It is a relaxed time, picnic tables with umbrellas, brats and burgers on the grill besides the normal menu. 16oz Bud Lites cans for $2.50. But on a hot day, they can hardly keep up with the demand for White Claw. And it seems to cut across age categories. The owner/head cook just smiled and shook his head when I asked him about it one time. But then he went to the expense of putting in a nitrogen tap so he could have Guiness on tap. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I don't drink anymore, medical issues prohibit. Sucks.
I see beer cans the most, seltzer stuff second, and coke cans a lot. I miss my beer, especially Bock in March, it was the signal we were about to leave the ice and get the boat out.
I REALLY miss sitting on the tailgate after loading up a Buck one of use let the air out of with a stick, looking up at the stars and talking about the hunt. It's not the same with water, I have tried it. |
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| sworrall - 2/9/2022 2:46 PM
I don't drink anymore, medical issues prohibit. Sucks.
I see beer cans the most, seltzer stuff second, and coke cans a lot. I miss my beer, especially Bock in March, it was the signal we were about to leave the ice and get the boat out.
I REALLY miss sitting on the tailgate after loading up a Buck one of use let the air out of with a stick, looking up at the stars and talking about the hunt. It's not the same with water, I have tried it.
Many decades ago, the first sign of Spring in central WI was availability of Point Bock beer. Before all the fine craft beers, ales, that was a special brew. |
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Location: NW WI | North of 8 - 2/9/2022 10:10 PM
sworrall - 2/9/2022 2:46 PM
I don't drink anymore, medical issues prohibit. Sucks.
I see beer cans the most, seltzer stuff second, and coke cans a lot. I miss my beer, especially Bock in March, it was the signal we were about to leave the ice and get the boat out.
I REALLY miss sitting on the tailgate after loading up a Buck one of use let the air out of with a stick, looking up at the stars and talking about the hunt. It's not the same with water, I have tried it.
Many decades ago, the first sign of Spring in central WI was availability of Point Bock beer. Before all the fine craft beers, ales, that was a special brew.
Lienies 1888 Bock a strong 2nd.
Not anymore folks, make way for fruit or piney IPAs.
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Location: Brighton CO. | Another guy with medical issues, I'll have a beer on Christmas eve (Leinenkugels) to wash down all the good food. Couple years ago caught some Walleyes on Vermillion on had a Leinenkugels Octoberfest to finish the feast. Six to eight drinks a year and never more then one. Yup Sucks! As far as trash goes Bud Light cans. |
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| Bud Light is #1 for sure. Miller Light, Mountain Dew and that seltzer #*#* are tied for second. |
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| Interesting. I never really thought about what I see the most. Now I will be paying attention. One thing that I see on the ground everywhere now is the blue medical masks. |
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| madmurph - 2/15/2022 10:14 AM
Interesting. I never really thought about what I see the most. Now I will be paying attention. One thing that I see on the ground everywhere now is the blue medical masks.
See the masks as well. People put all kinds of stuff on roof of cars, masks included. I walk outside most days and on a bitter cold day in early January, found an expensive bouquet of flowers on the shoulder. Lots of roses and other flowers. Somebody was going to get to their destination and wonder what the heck happened to the flowers they bought. At some point they will remember putting on roof while getting out their keys. |
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Location: On the O | Tim Hortons cups hands down. They took the garbage cans away from most of the drive throughs and now the cups are everywhere.
Just this week I was driving my daughter home from work along the stretch of the river I fish and the car in front of me is chucking out burger wrappers and napkins basically all his garbage as he eats. I'm like it 2022 who in the heck is throwing garbage out their car window. So after 5 or 6 items come out the window I have to know, is he a she, old or young? I get my chance to pull up beside the car and I've bet my daughter it's a millennial, she's like no way. Turns out it was a guy maybe mid 20's in his car by himself.
I'm like I knew it, my daughter turns to me and says being a millennial has nothing to do with it, that guys just a **in **hole and turns back and gives him the finger as we turn left.
She gives me hope. |
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| BigC - 2/15/2022 12:39 PM
Tim Hortons cups hands down. They took the garbage cans away from most of the drive throughs and now the cups are everywhere.
Just this week I was driving my daughter home from work along the stretch of the river I fish and the car in front of me is chucking out burger wrappers and napkins basically all his garbage as he eats. I'm like it 2022 who in the heck is throwing garbage out their car window. So after 5 or 6 items come out the window I have to know, is he a she, old or young? I get my chance to pull up beside the car and I've bet my daughter it's a millennial, she's like no way. Turns out it was a guy maybe mid 20's in his car by himself.
I'm like I knew it, my daughter turns to me and says being a millennial has nothing to do with it, that guys just a **in **hole and turns back and gives him the finger as we turn left.
She gives me hope.
Ha! I used to blow my horn at guys that threw trash out the window but recently a friend of mine, a retired engineer, reminded me that a lot of folks are packing today. He is an avid snowmobiler and used to scold guys who went off trail, creating potential problem with private land owners. No more. Guy I know had a hand gun pulled on him last winter by a baby boomer after telling the guy he was on a cross country ski trail, not a hiking trail which was close by. Just trying to preserve the groomed track, which is maintained by volunteers. |
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Your most found beverage litter?