Do You Report Litter?

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Where i am from litter is very rare and when it gets cleaned up usually next day. However when I travel in Italy or Spain litter is like everywhere. Especially in Spain, the more nature is around you the more likely you are near a illegal littering place from someone.

Not sure if I as a tourist am supposed to report it, or just ignore it and move on.

it has gotten worse over the years in the Netherlands sadly. My municipality does clean up, but the supply of litter seems to be relentless.

That's sad to hear, i remember the Netherlands (except Amsterdam) as one of the few other generally clean places on this planet.

If they welcome reporting, I'd be surprised if they care about (or check) whether or not the reporter is a tourist. They just want to know about the litter.

in my municipality reporting is anonymous, so a tourist could report it. They have to know where first which takes a bit of search.

I rather mean it's so common that I doubt they want me to report all the weird, remote and hidden places I find when the problem is so much bigger and obvious everywhere else.

Yeah, there is the question of how bad does it have to be to report. Certainly, they don't want people calling about a single cup stuck in a bush somewhere, but do want people calling about a pile of domestic garbage. My personal rule of thumb would probably be to only call if it were an amount significantly above average for the area, or if it's public trash bins that are overflowing and need to be emptied.

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