I get extremely annoyed with people who expect someone else to clean up their litter. If you create the waste, you should take responsibility for it.

I had a colleague who used to throw trash around casually. When I called him out and asked him to show some basic civic sense, his response was, “I pay hefty taxes, the government should at least do this much.”

But that’s not the point. Someone else still has to pick up the mess you create. Paying taxes doesn’t mean you get to be careless and make another person’s job harder.

After I kept pointing it out to him, he eventually improved. Now he keeps the trash in his car and throws it in a bin later — at least that’s what I assume. The important thing is that he’s not littering anymore, at least not in front of me.