Where to throw your rubbish

rosalan

rosalan

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I have just read an interesting thread on waste water disposal. How it should be disposed with few errors tolerated. Far worse in my personal book is the litter deliberately thrown from cars, trucks and possibly motorhomes.
On a local by-pass, a crew of people spent a few days removing all litter just prior to Christmas. Today there is more litter than there was when they began and you are to blame. Not me of course, I am perfect!
 
I agree with your sentiment entirely. We were traveling on a trunk road recently and stopped at some temporary traffic lights, beside us, dangling in the hedgerow, was a soiled nappy! This was in quite a quiet part of the country miles from anywhere.
 
I take it all home, well most of it, bottles are heavy so they often go into local recycling.

Cardiff has a recycling system that makes it easy, one bag for recycling and it's sorted centrally.

So all waste goes into the green bag that hangs through the internal garage door, from there into the car on return and straight into the bins at the apartment block.

As most of my waste was originally sourced in Wales it seems only fair to take it home.
 
Most of the rubbish I see is from takeaways and drink cans which leads me to think that younger people are probably responsible. Contrast this with the Woke sentiment running through society that blames older people for contaminating the planet and ruining their future. We don't leave litter anywhere - period.
We live near fishing lakes and the bins are always overflowing with mixed waste left by fishermen. Now, if they can be bothered to carry it in and eat it why can't they carry it home and recycle the waste?

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We were taught as children to not leave rubbish. We live near a level crossing and people empty the rubbish whilst sat at the barrier. It’s mainly take away remains and bottles.
 
Most of it here, usually discarded from cars in country lanes is from McDonalds. In fairness to them, they do clean up the area near the ’restaurant’, but perhaps they should be required to have a litter line. Folks could report litter and require them to go and pick it up.
 
Littering seems to me to be a U.K. problem. Travelling France Belgium, Germany was so noticeable on our last trip it was litter free.
Perhaps a lack of respect, seems to be a problem here with many that don’t give a toss about the law or the emergency services.
 
Larrynwin said:
Littering seems to me to be a U.K. problem. Travelling France Belgium, Germany was so noticeable on our last trip it was litter free.
Perhaps a lack of respect, seems to be a problem here with many that don’t give a toss about the law or the emergency services.
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Maybe, but in Spain, Portugal and Italy it’s a whole lot worse than the UK.

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It's not my children, their cars are full of rubbish, surprised they can get in, even mice not interested in going in where as my nice clean motorhome last year they wanted to call home
 
iandsm said:
I read somewhere that McDonald's were thinking about imprinting take away food packages with the vehicle number plate when the use the drive through, grate idea I though but I dont know if it was ever put into practice.
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When McDonalds first arrived in the UK one of their services to get planning permission for new store was that staff duties included policing the local area to clean up takeaway litter.

I don't think that policy lasted long.
 
Larrynwin said:
Littering seems to me to be a U.K. problem. Travelling France Belgium, Germany was so noticeable on our last trip it was litter free.
Perhaps a lack of respect, seems to be a problem here with many that don’t give a toss about the law or the emergency services.
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Germany and Austria were always spotless, until the Wall came down.
 
Trouble is no police on the streets and roads..Saw 2 van loads of fly tipping before Christmas both on the approach road to DCC Police HQ,,,not a main road an old coach road but never the less the main access to Police HQ..Thats how criminals regard our Police..BUSBY.
 
Rightly or wrongly, the easiest and most convenient place for rubbish is out the vehicle window.
It always will be and any legislation won't stop it.

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pappajohn said:
Rightly or wrongly, the easiest and most convenient place for rubbish is out the vehicle window.
It always will be and any legislation won't stop it.
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Think a few highly publicised heavy fines could help to curb it..Being as most litter seems plastic based I think it's a bigger problem than vehicle emissions to the environment but unfortunately companies can't earn profits from it. Wonder how many billions will be earned from trying to make us GREEN..BUSBY ??
 
Titwheeler said:
Maybe, but in Spain, Portugal and Italy it’s a whole lot worse than the UK.
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Can't speak for Italy as it is a while since we have been there, but both Spain and Portugal are much less littered than anywhere I have been in the uk.
was on the bus recently ant there was a rather 'chavy' family on it eating and drinking and noisy, however when they left the bus they all thanked the driver and took their rubbish to the bin at the bus stop. Have seen rubbish thrown out some very expensive cars, and not just by young people.
editted to add we live about a block away from the local shop, just the right place for the pies/sweets/pop to be eaten and the scratch cards checked. there used to be a bin near the footpath, no prizes for guessing where the rubbish ends up now. (i do check the cards in case someone has missed a winner though )
 
busby said:
Think a few highly publicised heavy fines could help to curb it..Being as most litter seems plastic based I think it's a bigger problem than vehicle emissions to the environment but unfortunately companies can't earn profits from it. Wonder how many billions will be earned from trying to make us GREEN..BUSBY ??
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Doesn't work....its the 'ill never get caught' attitude.
Look how many murderers are in prison.
Look how many drivers use alternate transport due to being banned for drink driving.
These are extremely well known and publicised laws and everyone knows the penalties for breaking them.

As for plastics... Cashier in Morrison yesterday made a point when he put our swede through the till... Why have they wrapped this in plastic?
It's not going to fall apart and you cut the skin off before cooking, they don't plastic wrap individual loose potatoes.
 
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Sillious Sodus said:
Drop a cigarette end in some town centres and you'll get a £60 fine. Leave 10tons of debris on eviction from a school playing field and you get a police escort out.
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Both should be fined,,As bad as each other..BUSBY.
 
pappajohn said:
Doesn't work....its the 'ill never get caught' attitude.
Look how many murderers are in prison.
Look how many drivers use alternate transport due to being banned for drink driving.
These are extremely well known and publicised laws and everyone knows the penalties for breaking them.

As for plastics... Cashier in Morrison yesterday made a point when he put our swede through the till... Why have they wrapped this in plastic?
It's not going to fall apart and you cut the skin off before cooking, they don't plastic wrap individual loose potatoes.
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So true because we havnt had decent visible policeing for the last 30 years..Can't remember the last time I saw a traffic cop...They were everywhere when I was trucking?? .BUSBY.
 
Titwheeler said:
Maybe, but in Spain, Portugal and Italy it’s a whole lot worse than the UK.
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I am afraid I totally disagree with you,,Spent 6 months last year in France,,spotless,,Spain ,much improved and Portugal,,very clean regarding litter..The
Minute you get off the ferry in uk the road sides are just full of litter..BUSBY.
 
busby said:
I am afraid I totally disagree with you,,Spent 6 months last year in France,,spotless,,Spain ,much improved and Portugal,,very clean regarding litter..The
Minute you get off the ferry in uk the road sides are just full of litter..BUSBY.
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Spain might be tidy around the holiday hot spots, but away from there are places it gets distinctly scruffy... litter, graffiti, derelict buildings......Admittedly UK not much better in places, depends where you go. Frinton-on-sea? Sorry, can’t agree about Portugal either, Algarve ok, but poorer parts of northern Portugal are generally not good examples. Italians can be particularly bad but, to their credit, seem to be doing something about it these days.

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Titwheeler said:
Spain might be tidy around the holiday hot spots, but away from there are places it gets distinctly scruffy... litter, graffiti, derelict buildings......Admittedly UK not much better in places, depends where you go. Frinton-on-sea? Sorry, can’t agree about Portugal either, Algarve ok, but poorer parts of northern Portugal are generally not good examples. Italians can be particularly bad but, to their credit, seem to be doing something about it these days.
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Funny how we all differ.We tend to find holiday resorts (some) have more litter which is what the thread is about than inland areas,,same with Portugal,,we didn't see hardly any litter away from The Algarve. North western Spain is very clean and tidy..BUSBY.
 
Just a thought, If they closed the roads for an hour each week to clean up litter and did a media campaign stating that roads that stayed litter free would not need this inconvenience wonder how quickly littering would stop
 
Maybe they should get Greta Thunderstruck on the case and tell her to shame all the old people into taking their ( Our ) litter home . Obviously it’s only the adults to blame ?
 
In the last place I worked there was a female colleague who's back seat and floor was covered with empty Coke cans. There was so many if you opened the door they would all fall out. They used to say that it doubled the scrap value of the car! :rofl:
Fair play to her for not tossing them out of the window :whistle2:
 
busby said:
Trouble is no police on the streets and roads..Saw 2 van loads of fly tipping before Christmas both on the approach road to DCC Police HQ,,,not a main road an old coach road but never the less the main access to Police HQ..Thats how criminals regard our Police..BUSBY.
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The police are not usually involved in littering or fly tipping, its the local council that deals with that and also has to clear the mess up.

I have managed to get two drivers now chucking litter out using my dash cam. The first had a blowout outside our gate and left the old tyre on the footpath outside. OH drove out as he was by the side of the road and the dash cam caught his number plate and the tyre perfectly. I bet he was surprised to get the £150 fine in the post. The second was someone in front of me chucking rubbish out of the drivers window as we approached a roundabout.

Most councils now have a way of reporting this online and including photos. Also with a recent change in the law, its the driver that gets fined not the actual person in the car throwing the litter out.

This is something we can do something about, so if your dash cam captures litter being thrown from a vehicle, report it, and as well as reducing the litter, it may keep the Council Tax down a bit.

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