Midas Chassidus MD Halacha l'Maase Does not yet have a sponsor. A chassid is a person who does more than the law requires. Since causing damage to others is forbidden by law, the chassid was careful not only to avoid hurting other people, but also to eliminate hazards, even though they were left by others, that endangered the public safety. They should be discarded in a place designated for refuse.
Parents often send their children to throw out the garbage.
If the child drops garbage on the floor, the parents are obligated to clean it up, whether it is in the lobby or stairway of their building or in the street. Someone could slip or trip on it and get hurt. The farmer scorned the chassid s rebuke, but sometime later, he walked down that road and hurt himself on them. Because of its great kedusha, it is especially important to avoid littering in Eretz Yisrael. It is said of the tzaddikim and gaonim of earlier generations in Eretz Yisrael that they did not throw any kind of garbage on the ground, even in the public domain, because of its kedusha.