The writer may be American but he doesn’t appear to be much of a thinker.
He whines about people not returning carts but has a picture of a stolen abandoned carts which are two entirely different issues.
I do not return carts to the store. I will place a cart in a “corral” if it is convenient. I grew up with cart boys. Usually young men who fetched carts back into the store. I had that job at one time.take a purchase home. Taking it off of store property is stealing.
Looting and shoplifting are easy crimes to fix. It isn’t a black thing except that black communities have been abounded by white liberals when it comes to law enforcement. White liberals love lawlessness in black communities and encourage it since it furthers blacks dependence.
When retail establishments off trash cans both inside and outside people will almost always use them. But liberals have made trash disposal so expensive it is becoming a luxury level service. Many gas stations do not offer trash cans. Many towns have restricted disposal so harshly that people haul items and dispose of them roadside. Its why NYC and NJ look like thrird world trash heaps.
Regarding trash disposal: I live in a small former mining/railroad town. We are provided two vouchers every year for disposal of large/heavy/unwieldy items up to 1200 lbs.
I went to dispose of a load of railroad half-ties that had been buried on my property and was told that the vouchers are not valid for that kind of trash. I ended up paying $800 because I’m a responsible citizen. I even told the attendant at the dump: “This is exactly why the sides of the roads have all that trash dumped.” She just shrugged.