I wish some councils didn’t make it difficult to dispose of rubbish.
I remember when you could just drive to a skip and dump whatever no question asked and the streets were cleaner.
Now you need to register, explain what you want to dump and why etc. I mean it’s not a big deal, but for many people that’s too much. I saw many times when I was in the queue, cars diverted off the skip, because e.g. no sticker on the car. They then probably drove to a quiet road and dumped there.
Does anyone know what is the reasoning behind it?
Where I live the roundabouts and verges look like they haven’t been cleaned for decades, full of bottles /human Detritus where the packaging has long faded to a sickly cream colour, mirrors the general decline of the country.
I cycled from London to Amsterdam last year. The difference in roadside litter levels between the UK and the Netherlands is insane. Everywhere drivers go in the UK, they decorate every verge, tree and hedgerow in a bright and fluttering array of rubbish, the Dutch appear to leave nothing.
Isn’t it the mindset of those tossing litter out of their car window rather then take it home and put it in the bin ?
As an ardent litterpicker (Womble) fitting it in around 2 jobs, we need all the help we can get to raise awareness of the scale of the problem and attitude of some. We’re finding increasing numbers of drivers’ tizer bottles – piss bottles chucked.
I think we need to start doing the Japanese thing where kids have to clean their school.
Too many people grow up with an attitude of “Someone else will clean it up”
I truly hate the sight of litter. I do not know where to begin rationalising how to explain it, except for that the people that do it are ignorant, lazy and feckless.
And when they try to defend it the answer is ‘but there is no bin’…just awful.
Good luck finding anyone who admits to doing it though. Everyone seems to complain about it but you never meet anyone who is happy to admit they are partly responsible for it. We teach kids not to do it in Reception, it is one of the most basic things we all learn, yet so many people forget it, or act like it does not apply to them. More often than not, they are only making their own area worse too. Then you get on to the damage it wreaks on wildlife or the microplastic it adds to the water and soil, making the planet that little bit sicker with each piece. It is just where lack of respect for everything and everyone that drives littering.
It’s depressing how much shit people leave all over the place.
Why can’t we get people on community service or with ankle tags or whatever picking litter
Veolia in london are terrible they have allowed some enormous piles of rubbish to build up in the streets, a common sight when driving in. Litter is vogue.
I used to work for the council.
Picking litter on roadside verges generates pages of risk assessments and needs PPE, proper training and someone watching the traffic.
Raise the minimum fine for anyone littering to £1000 and then make them spend 100 hours picking up litter.
And did those feet in ancient times,
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the litter, from careless hands,
Defile England’s countryside fair?
And did the plastic, in careless toss,
Pollute our rivers everywhere?
Bring me my gloves of rubber bright,
Bring me my picker-uppers of might;
Bring me my bin bags on the spot,
Bring me my determination fraught.
I will not cease from cleaning up,
Nor shall my efforts sleep in vain,
Till we have restored our green and pleasant land,
And made our littering habits sane.
It’s about time .. uk government got seriously TOUGH… wake up Tories/Labour just trashing this country … get tough
Its horrendous around Peterborough, fly tipping occurs daily on the back roads. Its in the fields, laybys, car parks. The council a few years ago built a huge state of the art recycling centre and yet I am sure its got worse. Its one of the reasons why I moved out of the city to a small town. Worst thing the city is meant to be Environment city of UK. Its one big dump now.
The real litter is the proliferation of moronic cunts that live here
I’m not in England any more, but here in Victoria, Australia, we have a ‘hard rubbish’ pickup. You arrange a slot then put everything you want to get rid of (within reason, no building waste, etc.) and then the council come and take it away within a week.
You can do it twice a year for free.
Going to the tip isn’t quite the ballache it is in the UK, but here it’s likely you’ll have to pay to dispose of anything there.
Glasgow is especially bad. As you arrive in Central Station the rubbish is all along the tracks. Total mess
The amount of rubish around my area from the past 2 years is depressing it’s mostly cans crisp packets and the constant vape crap.
I remember when UK opened its borders to Polish workers and one of my friends moved over there. I decided to pay her a visit and it was an absolute cultural shock and it was only because of litter everywhere. I went back to Warsaw permanently cured from any idea of moving over. It got much worse with years. I really do not understand.
TBQH that’s rather a general thing all over Europe. Definitely seen it a lot in Germany, when I lived there.
At the end of the day this is both a cultural issue and a council underfunding issue. Anecdotal but I remember seeing street cleaners all the time when I was younger but rarely ever see them now.
Obviously people shouldn’t be cunts and chuck their litter about in the first place but the underfunding and mismanagement of funds councils do have is still an issue.
I live on a busy road in London and more often than I’d like I look out the window and see someone roll down their car window and just chuck their rubbish out. People are disgusting.
Its stuff like this why I’m all for open borders, if you wanna risk everything to come live in the this cold, wet, litter filled, Tory infested shit hole then you gotta be desperate and good luck to you I say. Let em all in if the wanna share in the fun, they can paddle about in the water before it fully sinks
Where I work in London there’s also a problem with shit strewn all over the street. You always have to have your eyes on the ground to make sure you don’t step in it. I assume it’s dog shit, but there are so many homeless people in the neighbourhood that I sometimes wonder if it’s human faeces though.
‘Welcome to a filthy, littered dump called Britain and entirely the consequence of thirteen years of Tory government’
Some countries have no bins on the street and also no litter. They actually have respect for their surroundings
Disposable vapes and beer cans litter the roadside in my area. 1hr bike ride and I could count probably 5000 bottles and cans .
Last year I spent a week in Denmark. So much cleaner in comparison! it’s like a pristine version of the UK.
Place I work at has a recycling area in the corner of the carpark.
Instead it’s turned into the local flytipping spot for everycunt around to dump shit.
The bottle bank was removed a week or two back, so they’ve just been getting dumped by the crateful now.
I live in the countryside in a popular tourist area. There are no bins in any of the national trust run car parks so tourists just leave their shit (both literally and figuratively) everywhere.
Yesterday I saw an older bloke walk out of an m&s in London and quite literally throw rubbish on the ground. In the middle of the road, right in front of me.
I called him out on it and he totally blanked me.
London has always been a shit hole, I think it’s getting worse recently. This cunt obviously doesn’t care or considers it someone else’s problem.
I am at a loss. Is everything falling apart or is it just me?
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I wish some councils didn’t make it difficult to dispose of rubbish.
I remember when you could just drive to a skip and dump whatever no question asked and the streets were cleaner.
Now you need to register, explain what you want to dump and why etc. I mean it’s not a big deal, but for many people that’s too much. I saw many times when I was in the queue, cars diverted off the skip, because e.g. no sticker on the car. They then probably drove to a quiet road and dumped there.
Does anyone know what is the reasoning behind it?
Where I live the roundabouts and verges look like they haven’t been cleaned for decades, full of bottles /human Detritus where the packaging has long faded to a sickly cream colour, mirrors the general decline of the country.
I cycled from London to Amsterdam last year. The difference in roadside litter levels between the UK and the Netherlands is insane. Everywhere drivers go in the UK, they decorate every verge, tree and hedgerow in a bright and fluttering array of rubbish, the Dutch appear to leave nothing.
Isn’t it the mindset of those tossing litter out of their car window rather then take it home and put it in the bin ?
As an ardent litterpicker (Womble) fitting it in around 2 jobs, we need all the help we can get to raise awareness of the scale of the problem and attitude of some. We’re finding increasing numbers of drivers’ tizer bottles – piss bottles chucked.
I think we need to start doing the Japanese thing where kids have to clean their school.
Too many people grow up with an attitude of “Someone else will clean it up”
I truly hate the sight of litter. I do not know where to begin rationalising how to explain it, except for that the people that do it are ignorant, lazy and feckless.
And when they try to defend it the answer is ‘but there is no bin’…just awful.
Good luck finding anyone who admits to doing it though. Everyone seems to complain about it but you never meet anyone who is happy to admit they are partly responsible for it. We teach kids not to do it in Reception, it is one of the most basic things we all learn, yet so many people forget it, or act like it does not apply to them. More often than not, they are only making their own area worse too. Then you get on to the damage it wreaks on wildlife or the microplastic it adds to the water and soil, making the planet that little bit sicker with each piece. It is just where lack of respect for everything and everyone that drives littering.
A good time to take part in the [Great British Spring Clean](https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/get-involved/support-our-campaigns/great-british-spring-clean) next week
‘Littering is the most preventable crime’.
– Bill Bryson
It’s depressing how much shit people leave all over the place.
Why can’t we get people on community service or with ankle tags or whatever picking litter
Veolia in london are terrible they have allowed some enormous piles of rubbish to build up in the streets, a common sight when driving in. Litter is vogue.
I used to work for the council.
Picking litter on roadside verges generates pages of risk assessments and needs PPE, proper training and someone watching the traffic.
Raise the minimum fine for anyone littering to £1000 and then make them spend 100 hours picking up litter.
And did those feet in ancient times,
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the litter, from careless hands,
Defile England’s countryside fair?
And did the plastic, in careless toss,
Pollute our rivers everywhere?
Bring me my gloves of rubber bright,
Bring me my picker-uppers of might;
Bring me my bin bags on the spot,
Bring me my determination fraught.
I will not cease from cleaning up,
Nor shall my efforts sleep in vain,
Till we have restored our green and pleasant land,
And made our littering habits sane.
It’s about time .. uk government got seriously TOUGH… wake up Tories/Labour just trashing this country … get tough
Its horrendous around Peterborough, fly tipping occurs daily on the back roads. Its in the fields, laybys, car parks. The council a few years ago built a huge state of the art recycling centre and yet I am sure its got worse. Its one of the reasons why I moved out of the city to a small town. Worst thing the city is meant to be Environment city of UK. Its one big dump now.
The real litter is the proliferation of moronic cunts that live here
I’m not in England any more, but here in Victoria, Australia, we have a ‘hard rubbish’ pickup. You arrange a slot then put everything you want to get rid of (within reason, no building waste, etc.) and then the council come and take it away within a week.
You can do it twice a year for free.
Going to the tip isn’t quite the ballache it is in the UK, but here it’s likely you’ll have to pay to dispose of anything there.
Glasgow is especially bad. As you arrive in Central Station the rubbish is all along the tracks. Total mess
The amount of rubish around my area from the past 2 years is depressing it’s mostly cans crisp packets and the constant vape crap.
I remember when UK opened its borders to Polish workers and one of my friends moved over there. I decided to pay her a visit and it was an absolute cultural shock and it was only because of litter everywhere. I went back to Warsaw permanently cured from any idea of moving over. It got much worse with years. I really do not understand.
TBQH that’s rather a general thing all over Europe. Definitely seen it a lot in Germany, when I lived there.
At the end of the day this is both a cultural issue and a council underfunding issue. Anecdotal but I remember seeing street cleaners all the time when I was younger but rarely ever see them now.
Obviously people shouldn’t be cunts and chuck their litter about in the first place but the underfunding and mismanagement of funds councils do have is still an issue.
I live on a busy road in London and more often than I’d like I look out the window and see someone roll down their car window and just chuck their rubbish out. People are disgusting.
Its stuff like this why I’m all for open borders, if you wanna risk everything to come live in the this cold, wet, litter filled, Tory infested shit hole then you gotta be desperate and good luck to you I say. Let em all in if the wanna share in the fun, they can paddle about in the water before it fully sinks
Where I work in London there’s also a problem with shit strewn all over the street. You always have to have your eyes on the ground to make sure you don’t step in it. I assume it’s dog shit, but there are so many homeless people in the neighbourhood that I sometimes wonder if it’s human faeces though.
‘Welcome to a filthy, littered dump called Britain and entirely the consequence of thirteen years of Tory government’
Some countries have no bins on the street and also no litter. They actually have respect for their surroundings
Disposable vapes and beer cans litter the roadside in my area. 1hr bike ride and I could count probably 5000 bottles and cans .
Last year I spent a week in Denmark. So much cleaner in comparison! it’s like a pristine version of the UK.
Place I work at has a recycling area in the corner of the carpark.
Instead it’s turned into the local flytipping spot for everycunt around to dump shit.
[This was it just after Christmas.](https://i.imgur.com/HVbLxdw.jpg)
The bottle bank was removed a week or two back, so they’ve just been getting dumped by the crateful now.
I live in the countryside in a popular tourist area. There are no bins in any of the national trust run car parks so tourists just leave their shit (both literally and figuratively) everywhere.
Yesterday I saw an older bloke walk out of an m&s in London and quite literally throw rubbish on the ground. In the middle of the road, right in front of me.
I called him out on it and he totally blanked me.
London has always been a shit hole, I think it’s getting worse recently. This cunt obviously doesn’t care or considers it someone else’s problem.
I am at a loss. Is everything falling apart or is it just me?