Litter - can anything be done?

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

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.

Makes me really angry. Don't suppose you've got a dashcam?

I also see it at the station car park. People just park and shove all their rubbish out the door.

And don't get me started on fly tipping. Often the lane up the road is blocked with stuff.

Large fines.

Blow their fucking heads off with an assault rifle..........oops...sorry I thought I was Stateside.
As I am in the UK, empathise with them because they had a shit upbringing and offer them counselling and a hug.

was watching a Wanted Down Under the other day and when a little girl of about eight was asked why she voted to move to New Zealand she said 'because people put their litter in the bin'.

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.

I'm convinced that smokers are the worst for littering. They start with their fag butts, just casually stubbing them out with gay abandon. Nobody ever challenges them, so they soon upgrade to celephane wrappers. If you're going to throw a wrapper away, of course there's no problem with a box. They're biodegradable anyway, so no harm done. Once you're comfortable with throwing fag packets away, the path is clear (so to speak) to chuck anything that you'd rather be on the ground than in your hand: Beer cans, betting slips, scratch cards, fish and chip papers, magazines, plastic bottles, and any old shoe that you've outgrown (always individually though, never a pair). Next thing you know they're onto the hard stuff, mattresses, old fridges, nuclear waste. Doesn't matter what it is, your hardened smoker won't think twice about littering the place with it.

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.

Being community spirited I provided a front hedge for the locals to deposit their empty bottles and used fast food packaging. I've even found a nappy in there ... it's so rewarding to be of service.

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

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.

Goes with the BMW driver character, I bet he was turning either left or right, although he mastered the door catch and a bit of antisocial housekeeping the indicator stalk is still a mystery item.

LargeAddick said:

was watching a Wanted Down Under the other day and when a little girl of about eight was asked why she voted to move to New Zealand she said 'because people put their litter in the bin'.

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.

Brexit = sorted

JamesSeed said:

I was sitting in the car in Paddington and a bloke walking past dropped a coke can on the pavement about 20 yards from a bin.
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.

Did you get your car back then from the police?

Need an army of these.

https://youtu.be/_JZGAbue01U

randy andy said:

When I started getting the bus to school 30 years ago it was always an absolute scrum at the bus stop, so that can't be blamed on any supposed influx.

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.

Littering is a matter of personal responsibility. The government doesn't make people drop their crap all over the street, they just pay to clear up after the dirty mingers. Manners cost nothing, cleaning up after dirty gits costs a fortune.