Driving along this morning the guy in front of me driving a flash BMW opens his door while stopped at the lights and dumps plastic bottles and cigarette packets onto the road. I don't really get what can be done to stop all the morons in London littering the city?
There is a sizeable minority of people who just don't seem to give a shit about their environment.
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And don't get me started on fly tipping. Often the lane up the road is blocked with stuff.
As I am in the UK, empathise with them because they had a shit upbringing and offer them counselling and a hug.
I just don't get why people can't either put it in a bin or take it home with them. Surely it's not that difficult? However, and this isn't being racist, I do wonder how much the increase in litter is due to the influx of residents from other countries. It's like queuing at bus stops, us Brits used to be really good at it but now it's just a mad scrum when the bus arrives.
Think twice before taking up the evil weed kids, it can be a slippery slope to becoming pathetic individuals with no sense of personal or civic pride.
I drive all over East Kent and I feel ashamed when I see the amount of litter/rubbish on the roadside and blown into the fences and over the fields. It is also far worse in places where HGVs pull over. The drivers just appear to dump their rubbish without a care for their surroundings. Why there aren't bins in these lay-bys is beyond me.
You do not see the same level of litter in France, as each commune appear to feel a sense of pride in how their town/area looks. Why don't we have that in the UK?
A lot of councils are contracting out the enforcement of minor littering offences to concentrate on more major fly tips and other types of environmental crime. But this brings with it the allegation that they are then overzealous
bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14272249.War_on_litter_louts__290_fined_in_three_months_since_enforcers_took_charge/
I got out and picked it up and followed him up the road and handed it back to him.
He didn’t say anything, but dropped it again about a minute later.
I won’t be doing that again.
Equally, throughout my entire life every path, gutter, car park, play park, beach, basically any public space has a a liberal coating of dog ends and chewing gum.
Any recent increase in litter I don't think is down to an increase in littering, but a decrease in government spending, bins aren't emptied as often, streets aren't swept as often, rubbish builds up and blows around. Blame austerity, not immigration.
Austerity cuts have definitely played a part in my town. We used to have two council tips and recycling centres, one on either side of town but five years ago one was shut as apparently it wasn’t ‘cost effective’. Funnily enough in those five years the amount of fly tipping has gone up massively.