VIDEO: How would you handle a litterbug?

Is it worth a confrontation? Or would you just walk away?

SooToday polled 2,137 readers and asked the question: What would you do if you saw someone littering?

The poll ran from Aug. 23 to Aug. 28. Of the 2,137 votes, we can determine that 1,310 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Confront them and demand they pick it up 24.81 % local, 26.44 % total

Confront them and pick up the litter myself 17.40 % local, 16.52 % total

Say nothing and pick up the litter yourself 33.89 % local, 33.08 % total

Say nothing and leave the litter where it is 23.82 % local, 23.91 % total

Local Total

Results are based on an online study of adult SooToday.com readers that are located in Sault Ste. Marie. The margin of error, which measures sample variability, is +/- 2.09%, 19 times out of 20.

SooToday.com uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.