Thread: Trash at the Ballpark

Took a break from work, was visiting with the wife, and she was watching a talk program on TV. The issue they were discussing was disposition of trash at sporting events. After finishing a bag of peanuts, I put the bag under my seat. Similarly, for empty cups and any trash I generate. Now, I am not a slob, and fairly often pick up trash off streets and care it to trash bins. Somewhere, sometime I understood that stashing trash under the seat is the proper way to dispose of trash at sporting events in the stadium setting. While others on the show thought it was thoughtless, inappropriate behavior.

So, trash at a sporting stadium event... to stash under seat, or not to stash under seat.

That is the question!

When you answer, please indicate your approximate age. (Seriously.)

Nope, I do not do that.
What I bring in, I make sure to bring out.
There's usually a bin at the exit, so there it goes.

I am 44

I tend to stash under the seat as well. I think it is a problem inherint to stadiums and there really is no easy access to garbage bins while there.

I'll put it under my seat until the day a person comes around asking to take it out of my hands, or I get up to use the bathroom or beerstand etc., The way I see it, I'm a guest at their ballpark. I've paid for a seat, and my patronage, along with the others, keeps the sports franchise in business.
What I am not clear in your OP, is just who is the ones complaining about the litter? The owners? or society's complainers and all around do gooders?

I think it is fine to stash uner the seat as long as you throw it away in the proper container the next time you get up, whether you are leaving or just going to the concession stand/restroom.
I am 33.

I just thought of an angle on this question that I would like to know as well. Your approximate age decade. In fact, I just edited my initial message to ask people to include their age with their response.

I am 58 years old. And, going to sporting events is MUCH different than it was when I was a kid. You dressed differently. (Wearing a suit was common.) And, heckling and booing was very common, and accepted. (It is almost a thing of the past now, and I think it would annoy fellow fans now.) And, more.

Undoubtedly etiquette has changed at sporting events. Maybe trash disposal etiquette has also changed, and I never picked up on it.

So, what is your age, and what is your opinion on trash disposal?

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

I'll put it under my seat until the day a person comes around asking to take it out of my hands, or I get up to use the bathroom or beerstand etc., The way I see it, I'm a guest at their ballpark. I've paid for a seat, and my patronage, along with the others, keeps the sports franchise in business.
What I am not clear in your OP, is just who is the ones complaining about the litter? The owners? or society's complainers and all around do gooders?

So I can leave my garbage under the seat on an airplane, a bus, a train, a taxi, etc?
After all... I have paid for the seat, and it's my patronage that keeps them in business.

BTW, at a stadium I do leave my garbage under the seat because they don't give you anywhere else to put it.
I actually thought that's what you were supposed to do with it.

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

... What I am not clear in your OP, is just who is the ones complaining about the litter? ...

I have never had anyone look at me askance for stashing trash under the seat, either fan or stadium employee. It simply came up on a women's talk show, triggered by an incident between a man and wife. After the event, the woman was trying to find the trash under her seat to haul to the trash can. The man was of my opinion, that the proper and expected thing to do was leave it under the seat.

Originally Posted by HNSB

So I can leave my garbage under the seat on an airplane, a bus, a train, a taxi, etc?
After all... I have paid for the seat, and it's my patronage that keeps them in business.

At the ball park, I bought a beer or bag of peanuts there. Like an airplane, they sold me a product that will result in a need to liter somewhere, therefore a steward comes by and collects empty's. Taxi's in DC don't sell their fares stuff that will require disposal. So, there is a difference.

[QUOTE=LarryAndro;829160]I just thought of an angle on this question that I would like to know as well. Your approximate age decade. In fact, I just edited my initial message to ask people to include their age with their response.

I am 58 years old. And, going to sporting events is MUCH different than it was when I was a kid. You dressed differently. (Wearing a suit was common.) And, heckling and booing was very common, and accepted. (It is almost a thing of the past now, and I think it would annoy fellow fans now.) And, more.

Undoubtedly etiquette has changed at sporting events. Maybe trash disposal etiquette has also changed, and I never picked up on it.

Originally Posted by LarryAndro

So, what is your age, and what is your opinion on trash disposal?

35