I'm just back from having collected rubbish in the streets and local park. I see lots of discarded rubbish every day, and try to do my best (not always) to clear it up.
It depresses me that 'young people' don't seem to give a damn about leaving rubbish behind them wherever they go. At Glastonbury, the Isle of Wight, or even (below) in Sydney Oz on Christmas Day 2022, kids seem to be oblivious of how disgusting they are. Here in Brighton they leave it in the Churchyard, in the Twitten behind our house, and all over the beach.
This is NOT the elderly leaving litter, it is those little darlings who want all 6 year olds to be able to decide their gender as often as they like, and dismiss the achievements of some of our greatest heroes!
In the photo I can see a few rubbish bins, but not many. Maybe the authorities should also play their part by suppling A LOT more.
Forget Covid, Global warming, and Putin; lets get people to STOP throwing their bloody litter all over our green and pleasant lands. It's achievable.
I wonder if 'U know who' will support litter-bugs? She does support some very bizarre things.
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This is probably another one of the global problems. Unfortunately, it is the same here.
And I'd thought that all young people were supposed to be Eco-Warriors, like Greta Thunberg.
That really does look disgusting.
Almost unbelievable.
That mess was left by international backpackers - not locals. I realise that doesn’t make it any better but……
I hate that and like you wonder about those that march about climate change, are often huge consumers and are prone to leaving a mess.
Thank goodness rubbish along the roads isn't too bad. Probably thanks to municipal road sweepers out every day. Its the young guys who work at the fish farm who leave a trail of empty coffee cups and supermarket croissant wrappers up the mountain road.
I sometimes meet a foreign lady who walks, as I am walking, plastic bag in hand. She told me she collects rubbish on her walks to give something back to the island she loves so much. A rarity indeed. Going by the accent, we speak in Greek, she's either French, maybe Dutch. Very chic too
That doesn't surprise me at all. They think they belong nowhere and everywhere, and have no cares.
I know that the Climate Rebellion people always leave a terrible mess. On one recent demo' in central London they left several TONNES of it.
Good for her, and you. It's the least we can do that's visibly productive.
I take mine home as we were trained to do by mother and father and carry it in my backpack. One empty bag is carried in it for the return rubbish.
My pockets are filled with bags. Mostly poo bags for Billy's detritus, and bigger one's for everyone else's. This has now become normal.
I am no saint but I swear that I have never knowingly dropped a piece of litter in my life. The idea of just walking away from the mess you have made appals me. Seriously, I think you could do with a litter picker so that you are not stooping down to pick up the litter you see and you are not touching it either.
We were taught at school from an early age not to drop litter and woe betide anyone that was caught doing it, they'd be down to the headmaster's office right away for a good telling off. Once a week we were all made to go out to the playground for a very boring half an hour and pick up any litter we could find. That made everyone less inclined to drop litter in the first place.
As I said to Rachel today it seems to be all about entitlement for the younger generation now. I taught our children to put all litter in their pockets , bring it home and put it in the bin if they couldn't find a bin on their way home. There is nothing worse than seeing litter all over the pavements etc. XXXX
That's the only thing that worries me about my saintliness; touching things!!! I really do need one of those litter-pickers.
There's a Primary School very near us that is littered with rubbish in the shrubbery, I've often thought of suggesting to the headmistress that she establishes a once a week team of cleaners; maybe give them a treat afterwards too.
Do a search on Amazon. There are plenty of litter pickers there - different qualities and different prices.
We always taught our children to put all rubbish in their pockets if they couldn't find a bin. They used to come home with their pockets full. It looks so awful when you see rubbish all over the place. XXXX
It doesn't take much explaining to instil the whole concept of tidiness. I even used to tell mine that if they saw a friend dropping litter, to tell them to pick it up!
Those littering in the US risk a heavy fine. Also, our beaches, forests and parks either have trash barrels or a sign posting "carry in and carry out" rules. Our bigger problem is dog owners not picking up after their dog(s).
We have fines too, but they're never enacted.
It is dumbfounding to me that there appears to be so many perfectly usable things in this rubble. What a waste!
The fact that you can actually see trash cans in the background makes it even more incomprehensible.
I like the idea of children learning to keep their school yard clean. Perhaps the lessons learned there will carry into the future.
I just remember walking behind a mother with child...age about six? Who gave her sweet wrapper to her mother...who chucked it on the ground, saying "what do I want that for?"
I know too many people who leave their litter because "There are people who get paid to pick it up", which is no excuse at all in my opinion. I always take my rubbish home and put it in my own bin if there is not a nearby bin where I was eating my picnic lunch. Usually there are bins at least within walking distance.
The parents would have a fit! Their little darlings picking up someone else's rubbish!
You should see the rubbish after Glastonbury. Brand new tents, BBQ's, shoes, wellies, etc, all abandoned by lazy people who can't be bothered to take them home.
Oh dear. Sadly it doesn't surprise me.
All the bins here are emptied every day, but I still see litter within a few feet of them. No excuse.
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