I can't believe the amount of rubbish there is on the side, and central reservations on motorways and dual carriageways. I've noticed the last couple of weeks there appears to be more than ever before. As a result of these morons dropping their rubbish we then spend hours stuck in a traffic jam watching poor buggers picking it up with long handle tweezers, putting their lives at risk. What's the answer .....
What's the crack with putting up signs saying " dropping litter risks lives" ? Does it? What's the stats on roadside workers being killed? And why aren't their unions doing something about it? Do agree more litter generally, boils my scania Scottish...
Local authorities used to collect rubbish frequently. In recent years, and especially this year, many local authorities have reduced the frequency of collections, placed limits on the amount collected, and imposed requirements for sorting rubbish into categories. Inevitably and predictably the consequence is that there is more and more rubbish dumped everywhere, and left to blow about the streets.
My streets are normally very clean apart from on bin day, the bin men don't seem to care and litter drops out of the wheelie bins while tipping into their trucks and they don't bother to pick it up.
Don't come round this manor if dumped rubbish upsets you...we get a lot more than the usual McShite wrappers Gateways into farmers fields are the favourites,a tipper load of builders/domestic/industrial crap appears overnight,I don't suppose it's a coincidence that we are infested with illegal gipsy encampments all over the county. It's a bloody disgrace,but the council don't help:vans are barred from the tidy tip unless you apply for a permit well in advance...how many pikeys are going to bother with that?.(The travelling community are not complete strangers to the tip though - plenty of Transit pick-ups with greedy boards go in empty - but come out loaded.... Luckily we have a recycling centre just across the border that doesn't require a permit,so we load up and take ours and our neighbours stuff there...thank you Cambridgeshire taxpayers!
was behind a car at the lights a few months back and they threw a pile of mc disgusting rubbish out the window so i pulled up along side em at the next lights and let em have it "you filthy fucken pigs, what the fuck is wrong with you? do you want to live in a fucken getto? you lazy fat cvnts find a fucken bin!!!!" They looked at me in bewilderment, like they had totally forgotten what they had done one set of lights back or just genuinely saw no wrong in that behavior... 2nd time in recent months this has happened. pig ignorance and a total lack of pride in their Country....
as a country 'we' just don't care anymore, the place has turned into one big cheap hotel. A bit extreme but I used to think another war might sort it out but that doesn't apply anymore.
I agree, no fecker gives a shite. Look at the state of our roads, I know salt and frost do them no good but here in Derbyshire at least , they are reminiscent of third world proportions. Out on me bike, not fricken likely with all these mine shafts around.
Sad but true, in these days of budget deficits and cutting services street cleaning goes out of the window. There is a bit of a rat run near where I live which is en route between KFC and a large estate. At the point where the fries run out is littered with wrappers, cans etc. Once the litter starts the "well I'm not the only one" attitude kicks in and it multiplies. Perhaps the council should levy all take away food stores and get them to pay for the crap their customers leave behind?
^ that is a good idea but we know they will never wear it. Could try place and date/time stamping each container so vendor could be identified with inshop camera footage? equally implausible probably.
Our bin men won't take rubbish unless in a wheely bin and the lid is fully closed So if you leave a black bin bag on top it will be chucked on the floor and left with a sticker on it Some local residents just say oh well and put it back in the empty bin or take excess to the tip Others just leave the bag there for the local animals to spread across the estate. Can't decided who's the worse culprit the council for not taking _ or the resident with the black bags (who's recycling bin is probably empty as they are to lazy to sort their rubbish ) On another note if a bit of litter ends up in my garden or out the front of my house I clean it up If an area is tidy I find people on the whole are less likely to leave more mess - if it's already a shit hole they care less about leaving their rubbish and are happy adding to the pile People who chuck rubbish anywhere are vile
I've been thinking the same for the last couple of weeks. The litter on the verges just seems to have exploded. I was thinking it must be: a) Short grass, lack of leaves emphasising it. or b) Money saving by Councils. We are just at the distance where the loacl drive by McD has been finished and flung out the car window. I once picked a carry bag full of their rubbish up and took it back to the McD restaurant and had a discussion with the Manager who meekly promised to carry out regular litter inspections. It worked for a few months but now normal service has resumed. I think we should always challenge those that drop litter (unless it looks like a dangerous thing to do!) even if it's the "I think you just dropped £5 note back there mate"
