I have been living in the South for about a year now and it's been a bit of a shock coming from living in the midwest for my entire life previously. 

The amount of plastic bags they use down here is at best ecologically irresponsible, and at worst a burden on the environment. I have watched multiple people (probably in the hundreds)  get a single item from a store or convenience store bagged up and it boggles the mind.

On top of all of that, the littering down here is abhorrent.  You see trash on the side of the road everywhere and people littering from their car all of the time.