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Litter - is it a problem where you live?
Mark1974
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With council cuts deepening and street cleansing often hit the hardest, have you noticed an increase in litter on your streets?
Also, is there regional differences in cleanliness? Northern towns and cities often seem dirtier, and living in West Yorkshire I can vouch for that. London always seems quite clean when I visit, and not just the central areas but the suburbs too.
What's the situation like where you are?
Also, is there regional differences in cleanliness? Northern towns and cities often seem dirtier, and living in West Yorkshire I can vouch for that. London always seems quite clean when I visit, and not just the central areas but the suburbs too.
What's the situation like where you are?
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By way of contrast, Oxford is almost entirely litter-free.
It's pretty much all over the town where I live (although there are some better areas). The council is seldom seen cleaning it up and the Forestry Commission of Scotland does a sub-par job of clearing the woods of rubbish. There are the remains of an armchair that have been in the woods for years. I sent both the council and Forestry Commission photos of it and told them where to find it months ago, but it's still there. There are lots of other things that have been lying about for a good long while.
All the rubbish and fly tipping has really spoiled walks with my dogs. I have to be on the constant look out for broken glass and even the quieter areas that used to be cleaner and more pleasant to walk through are becoming bad for litter. New houses have been built on the other side of woodland near me and the litter there now is unbelievable.
The council recently spent thousands on a completely unnecessary new roundabout in my area and they bought dozens of brand new sit on grass cutters not that long ago, but they can't afford to pay staff to go around litter picking.
Are you up north by any chance? It sounds like here.
I don't blame the council, we have a road sweeper working daily around our local parade of shops, and weekly in residential roads. But as soon as they pick something up, someone drops something else to replace it.
It's depressing tbh.
And there was me thinking London was clean.
Actually, I do remember getting off the train at Folkestone Central once and it was quite dirty.
Sandgate though is lovely.
It's not so bad in the City or "up town" as I call it. But where I am, in Barking, it's a growing problem. I have a mate who cleans up outside Barking station, and by the time she walks from one entrance to the other picking up all the rubbish [which is only about 20 feet] the area is completely trashed again.
I used to do an early shift on weekends and be at the station at 7am for my train and the amount of trash was astounding. TBF the litter bins were overflowing, so maybe the council is a bit to blame, in that they could provide more bins.
Is this fairly typical of East London generally would you say?
Much of it is down to parents. When I was at school, I often saw kids pass wrappers to parent who then threw it off to their side.
The north seems same as the south to me. Some parts are spotless and some aren't. Sometimes, it varies from one street to another within one area.
It is, but many of its suburbs aren't.
I would say it is, yes. I have family and friends further into the East End, East Ham, Canning Town, Hackney for example. And the problem is just as bad there.
I watched Secret Millionaire recently (an old episode) and it was in Hackney. It looked really clean, and whenever you see London suburbs on TV, including bad areas, they always look spotless.
That said, I've seen East Ham on Google Maps and it didn't look very clean there.