Litter problem.....
ian_charles
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The streets where I live have an ever growing litter problem, mainly due to the proximity of fast food shops to the local schools......
The council have a policy of on the spot fines, but I have never seen or heard of one being issued ..To also aid the problem, the council in their wisdom have removed 90 odd percent of the bins in the area.
Add to this the feeling of no shame that many people display when they lob a bag of McDonald's left overs out the window of their car or a box of KFC bones on the kerbside outside my house.
Anyone else suffer from litter rage?
The council have a policy of on the spot fines, but I have never seen or heard of one being issued ..To also aid the problem, the council in their wisdom have removed 90 odd percent of the bins in the area.
Add to this the feeling of no shame that many people display when they lob a bag of McDonald's left overs out the window of their car or a box of KFC bones on the kerbside outside my house.
Anyone else suffer from litter rage?
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If that's what turns you on........
The other day I saw some feral youth rip open their takeaway food and throw the container on to the street as they walked on. No care in the world. No point saying anything, they would probably verbally assault you and quite possibly have a knife.
Maybe its just me but I was raised not to behave like that. Crazy eh?
Also reminds me of a "friend" who told me when he litters he is giving someone else a job.......
Town centres are easy to police, but I had the joy of walking out of my house this morning to find a large empty bottle of Becks and a kebab wrapper......
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Cant win them all I guess. Seen on the New Add tram link . A man took an empty bottle from his son and threw it out of the open tram window.
We have the same at our local shops now. One of my neighbours got fined for throwing a **** away a couple of weeks ago.
The nearest Macdonalds is over 20 miles from here but we still get their trays, bags and cardboard cartons. There is a kebab shop a mile or so away and teenagers drive up near my house, eat their food and open the car doors and just leave 4 miles of rubbish beside each door. Close the doors and drive off again. Wouldn't be so bad but there is a litter bin not 10 steps from where they park!!!
We also get quite a lot of cyclists around here and they all just throw their empty plastic bottles down for someone else to pick up. When there's a charity ride the mess is Unbelieveable. Cigarette butts are also litter and people throw them down all the time.
I was walking through the centre of Birmingham on one occasion when these group of male youths were passing, scoffing their takeaways, and one of them suddenly lobbed a half drunken milkshake towards me, which landed right by my feet spilling the contents. It was only by sheer luck none of it got on my jeans. Did any of them say sorry? Of course not. That's not cool and down with the yoof.
And here lies the problem. Some people just don't care.
I'm forever collecting cans and bottles from outside my house, which have been left on the pavement/walls when there is a wheelie bin within metres, simply because people are too lazy to open a bin lid.
If you've got litter, put it in a bin or take it home. Don't just drop it anywhere you like.
Yes. In a word.
It's one of my pet 'hates'.
The main way I've found to deal with it (so far), is to keep phoning the council and my local councillor. My local councillor is pretty good at dealing with these things, but it's only a temporary measure, as in the next few days, we are back to square one. Another way to deal with litter louts and fly tippers is to fine them heavily and educate them not to drop litter or fly tip in the first place. But, I feel it's often a case of 'you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink'.
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Lucky,my council dont care one bit. they just expect council tax payers to pay for someone to clean it up everyday
we all bring each others bins in depending to whos off work
i would hate to live in a scruffy area
Perhaps not.
I see you've got zero (very little) interest in the topic at hand, but this thread isn't a chatter thread, just like the other two you've posted (linked to).
So, we'll leave it at that yeah?
Meh.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4
these guys will sort it
rbdcay went to the interview, but didn't get the job.
Something about chewing gum stuck to the floor and leaving a mattress outside the premises, as they had to turn up the previous day in order to be on time for the interview.
Like one or two other members here, I will pick up some litter in our area and recycle it or toss it in our own garbage.
I always pick up beer bottles and cans. We get paid for them when we return them!
No argument there.
One of the biggest problems happens at lunchtimes in the streets surrounding high schools, so maybe some kind of education programme too, letting the youngsters know how it affects the amount of Council Tax their parents pay, and what it makes people think of the area and the school when they see it.
They should fine them Captain. It happened in Knottingley.
"Here you go, pass that onto your parents. That's £80 for dropping your Coke can".
That would reduce littering. Parent bollocks child, takes £80 off their Christmas box. Job done!
This was in wellingborough church yard, she was late teens/early20s and wore a uniform from the local iceland shop.
Also notice lots of polish beer cans strewn all over the place, so it's not only british people doing it.
To be honest the local council workers in the town center do a great job, because people here are just disgusting.
I think if more people did this, the countryside would be a nicer place