I remember being very young when told not to drop litter as well as not to press the buttons on the pedestrian crossings unless you needed to and general rules like that. Stuck with me ever since.
It is such an easy thing not to do, yet people who would not survive in the wilds, trash the society which allows them to live.
Sadly, the answer to this question is the same answer for all of society’s modern woes: too many wallopers.
In my opinion (which I think is more valid than most as I spend a significant amount of time each week cleaning it up) is that it’s 80% cultural and 20% lack of services.
For all that people will protest about seagulls, industry, or the wind, the vast, vast majority of the litter is intentionally dropped by people, often in close proximity to bins.
It doesn’t help that where there is litter, 99.9% of people won’t pitch in, even the people on these threads that say how disgraceful it is. No it’s not really your job, but if just 5% of us picked up 3 bits a day, that’d put a huge dent in it.
Worth pointing out as well that it isn’t everywhere – it is most places for sure, but if you find a beauty spot more than 200m from a place you can park, miraculously there is little to no litter, except for hotspots like Loch Lomond where arseholes camp.
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I remember being very young when told not to drop litter as well as not to press the buttons on the pedestrian crossings unless you needed to and general rules like that. Stuck with me ever since.
It is such an easy thing not to do, yet people who would not survive in the wilds, trash the society which allows them to live.
Sadly, the answer to this question is the same answer for all of society’s modern woes: too many wallopers.
In my opinion (which I think is more valid than most as I spend a significant amount of time each week cleaning it up) is that it’s 80% cultural and 20% lack of services.
For all that people will protest about seagulls, industry, or the wind, the vast, vast majority of the litter is intentionally dropped by people, often in close proximity to bins.
It doesn’t help that where there is litter, 99.9% of people won’t pitch in, even the people on these threads that say how disgraceful it is. No it’s not really your job, but if just 5% of us picked up 3 bits a day, that’d put a huge dent in it.
Worth pointing out as well that it isn’t everywhere – it is most places for sure, but if you find a beauty spot more than 200m from a place you can park, miraculously there is little to no litter, except for hotspots like Loch Lomond where arseholes camp.
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