No matter where the litter comes from, this is austerity in action. Councils don’t have the money for regular maintenance. Everything has been cut back. My own council (Trafford) has lost about £250m in funding since 2010.
When you see every grass verge in the land full of litter, this is Tory policy. People have always littered, but now it just gets left.
Why don’t we get PSA’s any more like we used to? I seem to remember there being lots of government-funded campaigns on smoking
and speeding and crossing the road safely in the 90’s and early 00’s, but I can’t recall a single memorable PSA being rolled out in the last 10 years.
I know it seems fairly obvious to most that you shouldn’t litter, but I also think people underestimate how much of littering behaviour is actually taught and encouraged to children by their own parents, and in the absence of an alternative voice educating otherwise, that is a behaviour that is going to be internalised and passed on to the next generation.
I like to litterpick when I go out on walks. I have cleared my local stream of more than a few tyres and trolleys over the years, but when I was younger my mother used to encourage us to just drop our litter on the floor once it had its purpose, and at the time it seemed the most normal thing in the world. I remember her driving my sister’s and I in the car, and the footwells being upto out ankles with McDonald’s packaging, empty cans, crisp packets etc. She’d wait until the roads were quiet before saying “*Right girls, windows down*”, and we’d roll them down and throw armfuls of them out of the windows, giggling as we watched them fluttering behind us in the wind.
To us it was just a game, and nobody ever taught us different. It wasn’t until I came of an age to be able to think critically that I realised how wrong it was and how much damage I’d contributed to the environment, but for a lot of people that opportunity will never arise without intervention.
Its skip lorries and the like along with flatbed trucks and poor coverings. I’ve witnessed this so many times
Wouldn’t be so much if they actually done their jobs more often
> He said litter and vegetation builds up over time and therefore a thorough clean was needed.
What’s really needed is *regular maintenance*, so it doesn’t build up. But that would mean forward thinking and investing, neither of which seems a very British thing to do.
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No matter where the litter comes from, this is austerity in action. Councils don’t have the money for regular maintenance. Everything has been cut back. My own council (Trafford) has lost about £250m in funding since 2010.
When you see every grass verge in the land full of litter, this is Tory policy. People have always littered, but now it just gets left.
Why don’t we get PSA’s any more like we used to? I seem to remember there being lots of government-funded campaigns on smoking
and speeding and crossing the road safely in the 90’s and early 00’s, but I can’t recall a single memorable PSA being rolled out in the last 10 years.
I know it seems fairly obvious to most that you shouldn’t litter, but I also think people underestimate how much of littering behaviour is actually taught and encouraged to children by their own parents, and in the absence of an alternative voice educating otherwise, that is a behaviour that is going to be internalised and passed on to the next generation.
I like to litterpick when I go out on walks. I have cleared my local stream of more than a few tyres and trolleys over the years, but when I was younger my mother used to encourage us to just drop our litter on the floor once it had its purpose, and at the time it seemed the most normal thing in the world. I remember her driving my sister’s and I in the car, and the footwells being upto out ankles with McDonald’s packaging, empty cans, crisp packets etc. She’d wait until the roads were quiet before saying “*Right girls, windows down*”, and we’d roll them down and throw armfuls of them out of the windows, giggling as we watched them fluttering behind us in the wind.
To us it was just a game, and nobody ever taught us different. It wasn’t until I came of an age to be able to think critically that I realised how wrong it was and how much damage I’d contributed to the environment, but for a lot of people that opportunity will never arise without intervention.
Its skip lorries and the like along with flatbed trucks and poor coverings. I’ve witnessed this so many times
Wouldn’t be so much if they actually done their jobs more often
> He said litter and vegetation builds up over time and therefore a thorough clean was needed.
What’s really needed is *regular maintenance*, so it doesn’t build up. But that would mean forward thinking and investing, neither of which seems a very British thing to do.