Quote Originally Posted by Sarcasm the elf View Post
The problem is people who either throw things in an unlit firepit assuning that someone else won't mind burning their garbage for them or people who put things in the fire pit that don't fully burn ( in particular mountain house type bags which a lot of people don't realize are part metal)

This is the type of jackassery we are talking about:
Yes, thank you, this is what I was talking about. I also don't necessarily have a problem with washing things downstream, I was more talking about washing dishes at the source of a spring (I once found spaghetti in the pool of water where a spring came out from under a rock).