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Or maybe the woods are so vast and expansive where OP lives that leaving an apple core or banana peel will convert to fertilizer long before anyone sees it.  
Sometimes traces are good.
In isolation it's not a big deal. Problem is that most places you're likely to go have thousands of visitors. So while your 1 apple core or banana peel isn't a big deal hundreds or thousands of people doing the same would at minimum look nasty and at worst cause problems with the local ecosystem. >

come to east >

ok >

Is a 1oz bottle of Fireball a fruit or vegetable >

It’s basically a rock, return it to nature. >

If I’m in somewhere that’s been completely altered by humans, like a cornfield, >

Part of the reason why littering is wrong is because people don't want to walk around with rotting trash everywhere. It gets ugly. >

This is the main reason people hate littering. It’s purely aesthetic. It annoys me when people act like their opposition is because of environmental reasons. Cutting down trees and building condos is way worse for the environment that a candy wrapper on the ground >

Well unfortunately people keep breeding and keep needing places to live and furniture to put into their homes.
I'd agree that one candy wrapper might be better than a ton of natural environment destroyed, but the choice available to an average person is only the one regarding the candy wrapper. >

Breeder here! >

I'm not going to the woods every time I want to eat an apple. >

I live in the PNW the woods are everywhere >

You’d think you know about “leave no trace” and why it’s important then