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It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window. |
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"It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window. "
Exactly this, so many people today are slovenly in both their appearance and general behaviour and treat it as the norm.
Until folks are re-educated this problem will go on and on like the devil may care attitudes today about most things that matter. |
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By *adame BWoman
over a year ago
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Just had this conversation with my daughter. I live in a coastal area and we are involved in local clean ups as well as generally picking as we go but wanted to make two points about little changes... people are picking up their dog poo with the free plastic bag and then throwing it into the sea!!!
Biodegradable dog poo bags should be standard at the very least as well as a large dose of cop on.
Secondly, if you are using a coffee pod machine, the reusable pods are great and make a big difference.
That's me done... meeting over
Madame B |
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"It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window. "
Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? |
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"Just had this conversation with my daughter. I live in a coastal area and we are involved in local clean ups as well as generally picking as we go but wanted to make two points about little changes... people are picking up their dog poo with the free plastic bag and then throwing it into the sea!!!
Biodegradable dog poo bags should be standard at the very least as well as a large dose of cop on.
Secondly, if you are using a coffee pod machine, the reusable pods are great and make a big difference.
That's me done... meeting over
Madame B"
I AM going to ditch my tassimo machine. |
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"its everywhere - if you look around when you walk the amount of rubbish in general is disgusting - one of my pets is dropping litter  "
Worst is when you're driving behind someone and it just keeps flying out of their window. Drives be mad. Pardon the pun. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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It's often the bad mentality of some people these days that shows how they behave regarding their rubbish.
I have been involved with hotel management for over 30 years but only in recent times have I found negative attitudes.
Like the guest on check out, went to his car and emptied all the ashtrays plus in-car rubbish bin straight onto the ground (not into a waste bin 15' away!).
When politely challenged, he said "You"ll have staff to clean it up so do it".
At my present place, we provide bins outside for smokers but they are seldom used, with people just dropping cig butts on the ground instead!
It is laziness plus people don't appear to care or think of others. |
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It is all over unfortunately :/ but it's the shit at the beach, that gets into the oceans and kills marine life! Just mindless thick lazy bastards that generally have no clue! You'd think they'd (parents/guardians, obvs not all cases) would lead by example to show the kids that it's important to put rubbish in a bin or even home! Rant over! ..i do my bit up in Saltburn, take 3 pieces away everytime I'm there plus we have organised beach cleans. (Every little helps)  |
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".. people are picking up their dog poo with the free plastic bag and then throwing it into the sea!!!"
I think the owners should train the dogs to shit in the sea...like everyone else does on holiday. |
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"I see Malvern have introduced a gas lamppost that uses dog shit as fuel. One dump fuels two hours of light from the methane produced by mashing it up  "
I saw that in the paper  |
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We are fortunate locally that we have some of the most advanced, efficient and comprehensive recycling services in the country, but we seriously need to eliminate as much packaging as possible and increase reuseability of products we have grown accustomed to dumping or recycling. |
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"It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window.
Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? "
Isn't that what Wall-e is for |
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"I see Malvern have introduced a gas lamppost that uses dog shit as fuel. One dump fuels two hours of light from the methane produced by mashing it up "
I know dogs piss up lampposts, but have you tried training one to take a dump near one  |
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"I see Malvern have introduced a gas lamppost that uses dog shit as fuel. One dump fuels two hours of light from the methane produced by mashing it up
I know dogs piss up lampposts, but have you tried training one to take a dump near one "
The dogs don’t dump in it. The owners pick the shit up and then empty it into the lamppost. Close the chute. Turn a handle a few times to mash it up and ‘bingo’ - two hours light |
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By *adame BWoman
over a year ago
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"I see Malvern have introduced a gas lamppost that uses dog shit as fuel. One dump fuels two hours of light from the methane produced by mashing it up
I know dogs piss up lampposts, but have you tried training one to take a dump near one
The dogs don’t dump in it. The owners pick the shit up and then empty it into the lamppost. Close the chute. Turn a handle a few times to mash it up and ‘bingo’ - two hours light"
Brilliant a real light bulb moment
Sorry bit of a shit joke
Madame B |
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"I see Malvern have introduced a gas lamppost that uses dog shit as fuel. One dump fuels two hours of light from the methane produced by mashing it up
I know dogs piss up lampposts, but have you tried training one to take a dump near one
The dogs don’t dump in it. The owners pick the shit up and then empty it into the lamppost. Close the chute. Turn a handle a few times to mash it up and ‘bingo’ - two hours light
Brilliant a real light bulb moment
Sorry bit of a shit joke
Madame B"
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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago
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We have fuck this amazing planet of ours up along with all the fantastic animals that live on it. Look at the time frame governments are talking about for sorting this shit out is way to far in the future, This should have been address years ago and don't say we did not know back then as the people in the know new way back.
Thing is for most of us at our age it will not make any difference it's or children and our children's children that are going to have to live in and clean this mess up. |
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" What are we gonna do about it?"
It's too.late, even if we all stopped using plastics right now the oceans are clogged up with the stuff, sea creatures are becoming ensnared in it and it is entering the food chain.
We could all go out now and pick up every piece of litter we see and still the problem won't have gone away.
Still, that doesn't mean we should continue to contribute to the problem....don't chuck litter in the street, people.
(I'm sure we all knew that already but some still need to be told). |
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" What are we gonna do about it?
It's too.late, even if we all stopped using plastics right now the oceans are clogged up with the stuff, sea creatures are becoming ensnared in it and it is entering the food chain.
We could all go out now and pick up every piece of litter we see and still the problem won't have gone away.
Still, that doesn't mean we should continue to contribute to the problem....don't chuck litter in the street, people.
(I'm sure we all knew that already but some still need to be told)."
You buy a cucumber, lettuce, broccoli. .its wrapped in clingfilm. Apples on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in clingfilm.Oranges in those stupid little nets...all useless plastic waste, adding extra inconvenience to the consumer and polluting the planet.For what? Why can't we have paper bags for our produce? | |
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If you ever travel around North Africa - if they lucky to have a river bed they pile up months of rubbish - wait till it rains - River fill up and it disappears - good way to get rid of it - ends up in Mediterranean and Atlantic and our beach’s
Otherwise about a mile outside towns you come across plastic trees- trees with no foliage but full of blue plastic bags - all near local tips.
Plastic is a big problem |
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"You should see some of the rubbish people leave on buses.
It looks like some of them have had a picnic.
And benches in town, there's usually a bin only a couple of yards away ffs  "
The bins in our local park need to be bigger or emptied more frequently. |
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"You should see some of the rubbish people leave on buses.
It looks like some of them have had a picnic.
And benches in town, there's usually a bin only a couple of yards away ffs
The bins in our local park need to be bigger or emptied more frequently. "
Or people could take their garbage home with them. |
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"You should see some of the rubbish people leave on buses.
It looks like some of them have had a picnic.
And benches in town, there's usually a bin only a couple of yards away ffs
The bins in our local park need to be bigger or emptied more frequently.
Or people could take their garbage home with them."
People don't though. They drink their drinks, eat their food and throw away their rubbish. They could carry plastic bags to take it home in I suppose. |
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"You should see some of the rubbish people leave on buses.
It looks like some of them have had a picnic.
And benches in town, there's usually a bin only a couple of yards away ffs
The bins in our local park need to be bigger or emptied more frequently.
Or people could take their garbage home with them."
Yeah, agree with that.
When our local council (Derby City) organises an event in the Market Place, I've seen every bin in the area overflowing and all manner of shit just being left to blow around the city centre. Surely there are a few employees who wouldn't mind a bit of overtime to come and take some of it away every hour or so?  |
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Lets make a start ...
Next time you go to the supermarket ....have your fruit and veg weighed with out a bag.....take your own reusable shopping bag to transport home .
..farm shops ... so much better |
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"its everywhere - if you look around when you walk the amount of rubbish in general is disgusting - one of my pets is dropping litter "
I'm the same, I once told my sister if she doesn't pick up the rubbish she dropped I'm going home!
She picked up the rubbish  |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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McDonald's have introduced a recycling scheme in their stores as each one is refurbished.
Litter is now supposed to be separated into marked & highlighted bins. Plastic in one, drinks cups in another and general waste in the main bin.
Does anyone follow it? Few do, they can't be bothered!
The idea of a bottle fee being returned when you bring back the bottle isn't new.
Back in Scotland, up to the mid 60's, I recall the scheme where soft drinks bottles if returned to shops, got you back a shilling per bottle. If you handed in enough, it paid for a brand new bottle. |
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"We have fuck this amazing planet of ours up along with all the fantastic animals that live on it. Look at the time frame governments are talking about for sorting this shit out is way to far in the future, This should have been address years ago and don't say we did not know back then as the people in the know new way back.
Thing is for most of us at our age it will not make any difference it's or children and our children's children that are going to have to live in and clean this mess up."
Agreed
and its not just the UK,
I am not long back from Hawaii and the plastics found on the beaches is unbelievable, not just plastics, but fishing nets, car tires and all aspects of litter.
The main Tourist beaches are cleaned every day, but outwith tourist areas the beaches are left in this shocking state.
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In saying that, the "World Famous" "Sunset Beach" is no longer there, the sea has totally eroded this beach and removed all sand, there is now a 20 foot drop from side walk to where the sand used to be.
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Plastics are World wide |
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? BRING BACK THE YTS UR YOP...
THE COMMUNITY PROGRAM LOL
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"You should see some of the rubbish people leave on buses.
It looks like some of them have had a picnic.
And benches in town, there's usually a bin only a couple of yards away ffs
The bins in our local park need to be bigger or emptied more frequently. "
council cutbacks .....s |
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Here in Ireland plastic bags are close to
.80 cent.
While in England it’s .05 p so unless you hike up the price of a plastic bag there’s no incentive not to go green
I know it’s only a little but we all have to start somewhere |
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"You should see some of the rubbish people leave on buses.
It looks like some of them have had a picnic.
And benches in town, there's usually a bin only a couple of yards away ffs
The bins in our local park need to be bigger or emptied more frequently.
Or people could take their garbage home with them.
Yeah, agree with that.
When our local council (Derby City) organises an event in the Market Place, I've seen every bin in the area overflowing and all manner of shit just being left to blow around the city centre. Surely there are a few employees who wouldn't mind a bit of overtime to come and take some of it away every hour or so? "
There again be totally mad and bring your on rubbish home and recycle !!! |
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There are 2 types of rubbish on beaches
1) Rubbish that's washed up with the tide. .much more difficult to eradicate and quite likely a modern day scourge.
2) Rubbish left behind by visitors. This one is nothing new. I remember in Margate as a child each evening 2 tractors clearing the huge amount of rubbish left behind by day trippers. A lot of people still think nowadays, it's okay to throw their rubbish down. We are too soft on it in this country and there is also an attitude that someone else will come along and pick it up. If there's rubbish outside my house, I,'ll pick it up but I,m a minority.
Too many people are too lazy to bin their rubbish or take it home.
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? BRING BACK THE YTS UR YOP...
THE COMMUNITY PROGRAM LOL
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Why don't people just not throw it down in the first place, that's a better idea.
Those doing community service have better things to do than collect rubbish. Like painting fences ect... Yes they are doing a, penance but they should also not be humiliated in public.
Why not just bring back the stocks and throw rotten tomatoes at the villains. Let's not forget that there are a wide range of reasons people have to do community service for, they aren't all druggies, d*unks, thieves and lowlifes
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? BRING BACK THE YTS UR YOP...
THE COMMUNITY PROGRAM LOL
Why don't people just not throw it down in the first place, that's a better idea.
Those doing community service have better things to do than collect rubbish. Like painting fences ect... Yes they are doing a, penance but they should also not be humiliated in public.
Why not just bring back the stocks and throw rotten tomatoes at the villains. Let's not forget that there are a wide range of reasons people have to do community service for, they aren't all druggies, d*unks, thieves and lowlifes
XXX"
Since when is picking up rubbish from the beach humiliating? |
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? BRING BACK THE YTS UR YOP...
THE COMMUNITY PROGRAM LOL
Why don't people just not throw it down in the first place, that's a better idea.
Those doing community service have better things to do than collect rubbish. Like painting fences ect... Yes they are doing a, penance but they should also not be humiliated in public.
Why not just bring back the stocks and throw rotten tomatoes at the villains. Let's not forget that there are a wide range of reasons people have to do community service for, they aren't all druggies, d*unks, thieves and lowlifes
XXX
Since when is picking up rubbish from the beach humiliating?"
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"its everywhere - if you look around when you walk the amount of rubbish in general is disgusting - one of my pets is dropping litter "
You need to have stern words with the animal..
Bet its a cat..
Or an iguana.. |
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"Lets make a start ...
Next time you go to the supermarket ....have your fruit and veg weighed with out a bag.....take your own reusable shopping bag to transport home .
..farm shops ... so much better "
I do all of that, there's no need for the bags, unless you're buying a load of loose peas. You could also use an elastic band, or string to keep things together.
While on my uni course one of our tutors informed us that we could leave packaging at the store if we liked and they have to dispose of it. Some things come in packaging that is unnecessary or far too much for the item inside, just a lot of waste if you ask me. |
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By *essiCouple
over a year ago
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"its everywhere - if you look around when you walk the amount of rubbish in general is disgusting - one of my pets is dropping litter
You need to have stern words with the animal..
Bet its a cat..
Or an iguana.. "
Made me chuckle out loud...  |
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"It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window.
Exactly this, so many people today are slovenly in both their appearance and general behaviour and treat it as the norm.
Until folks are re-educated this problem will go on and on like the devil may care attitudes today about most things that matter. "
So being scruffy is a sign that you're a litter dropper??I'm usually in filthy jods, hair screwed up and mud all over my coat, wellies, face haha, but I don't bloody litter
I am ridiculous about litter. When my son was about 5, he threw an empty bottle of pop into a geese enclosure.... I lifted him over the fence to go get it! He was chased by the geese.... He doesn't drop litter now...
So many people are just used to binning everything. When we go to Macdonald's with the kids, it would be so easy to just chuck in a nearby bin, but we don't, we take it home and put it in the relevant bins.
It's a bit time consuming, but i do feel a bit better about doing it |
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Where I’m from you can no longer bring micro beads into the country. The type that are used to exfoliate etc.
If you look really closely on a beach you will invariably see little blue micro beads.
A plastic ring pull got stuck over a porpoises snout in the bay and it slowly died in agony.
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"its everywhere - if you look around when you walk the amount of rubbish in general is disgusting - one of my pets is dropping litter
Worst is when you're driving behind someone and it just keeps flying out of their window. Drives be mad. Pardon the pun. "
I have a dash cam and if I record anyone doing this it goes to the local council. Pity there is not a name and shame site to post the video on. But maybe that would infringe on the litter louts civil liberties |
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance?
don't you think they have enough hoops to jump through???"
No |
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"It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window.
Exactly this, so many people today are slovenly in both their appearance and general behaviour and treat it as the norm.
Until folks are re-educated this problem will go on and on like the devil may care attitudes today about most things that matter.
So being scruffy is a sign that you're a litter dropper??I'm usually in filthy jods, hair screwed up and mud all over my coat, wellies, face haha, but I don't bloody litter
I am ridiculous about litter. When my son was about 5, he threw an empty bottle of pop into a geese enclosure.... I lifted him over the fence to go get it! He was chased by the geese.... He doesn't drop litter now...
So many people are just used to binning everything. When we go to Macdonald's with the kids, it would be so easy to just chuck in a nearby bin, but we don't, we take it home and put it in the relevant bins.
It's a bit time consuming, but i do feel a bit better about doing it"
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance?
don't you think they have enough hoops to jump through???
No"
Councils could pay anybody to spend a couple of hours a week litter picking. I'd do it. I do it often enough for nothing. |
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Bring back the Wombles
We have a Spring Clean in our town, and volunteers are given picker sticks, bags etc. And assigned an area of the town to tidy
And consistently the worst areas are around the playgrounds and schools 
We have very good doorstep recycling in the county and great community recycling centres, but it's the casual discards that cause the problem |
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Until a few weeks ago I had an amazing greengrocer at the bottom of my road. All you needed to do was take a couple of bags and then put all the loose unwrapped produce in them and take it home. I’m genuinely so sad it’s closed. |
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I detest all the pointless damn packaging you get. Like buying some small tech item and needing a light sabre to get into the damn thing. Make up shrink-wrapped so you need scissors to open your new lippy etc. Grr.
It's never going to get better with the half-assed measures that governments take. Very sad. |
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As much as Britian is partly to blame we contribute around 1% of the world's plastic waste. The problem lies in the poorer nations of Asia and Africa who have no recycling schemes and therefore crap is just dumped anywhere mainly in rivers . But we do certainly need to improve . Around my street lazy cunts drink beer and just leave the empties in the bus shelter when there is a bin 20 feet away Ffs. It's always Eastern Europeans round here that create 90% of the street rubbish . I've actually seen them walking along and literally throwing empty cans and bottles in the road . It's just my observations and I need to say it . Rant over . |
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Iv been more conscious of this lately, whatwith d media attention & all I see is plastic everywhere now. I thought I was doing my bit by recycling as best I can but even today I was making a fry & everything was plastic packaged, mushrooms & tomatoes in plastic containers, bread in plastic wrappings, milk in containers. We need to start using more cardboard but then trees will get hit if there’s not enuf recycled paper. I don’t think plastic packaging is necessary for fruits & veg like cucumbers, cabbages etc.
On a side note 1 of our local pubs have stopped using straws because of this, lol every little helps tho. |
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Iv been more conscious of this lately, whatwith d media attention & all I see is plastic everywhere now. I thought I was doing my bit by recycling as best I can but even today I was making a fry & everything was plastic packaged, mushrooms & tomatoes in plastic containers, bread in plastic wrappings, milk in containers. We need to start using more cardboard but then trees will get hit if there’s not enuf recycled paper. I don’t think plastic packaging is necessary for fruits & veg like cucumbers, cabbages etc.
On a side note 1 of our local pubs have stopped using straws because of this, lol every little helps tho. "
What you were having a fry and I didn’t get an invite |
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By *rozacMan
over a year ago
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"its everywhere - if you look around when you walk the amount of rubbish in general is disgusting - one of my pets is dropping litter "
You should train it to stop. Shout at it next time to pick it back up |
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"As much as Britian is partly to blame we contribute around 1% of the world's plastic waste. The problem lies in the poorer nations of Asia and Africa who have no recycling schemes and therefore crap is just dumped anywhere mainly in rivers . But we do certainly need to improve . Around my street lazy cunts drink beer and just leave the empties in the bus shelter when there is a bin 20 feet away Ffs. It's always Eastern Europeans round here that create 90% of the street rubbish . I've actually seen them walking along and literally throwing empty cans and bottles in the road . It's just my observations and I need to say it . Rant over ."
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"I work with a polish guy ...
He says in poland , if you drop litter .... instant fine "
I believe it's an £80 fine for dropping litter here,in the town centre at least.
There was a huge outcry in the local press about how fascist jobsworths were persecuting innocent people for dropping cigarette butts.
I say double or triple the fines (and rigorously enforce them),litter buggers are not innocent people being persecuted by nazis.
I look out of my window right now and see the street covered in litter,despite the cleaner vehicle was down here only yesterday. The park behind me is a disgusting tip with plastic bags in the trees and drinks cans all over the place,despite there are litter bins that are hardly used.
This is not accidentally dropped by innocent people,it is intentionally dropped by lazy,selfish bstrds.Educating them doesn't seem to be effective,maybe cracking down on it is the only way. |
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"I work with a polish guy ...
He says in poland , if you drop litter .... instant fine
I believe it's an £80 fine for dropping litter here,in the town centre at least.
There was a huge outcry in the local press about how fascist jobsworths were persecuting innocent people for dropping cigarette butts.
I say double or triple the fines (and rigorously enforce them),litter buggers are not innocent people being persecuted by nazis.
I look out of my window right now and see the street covered in litter,despite the cleaner vehicle was down here only yesterday. The park behind me is a disgusting tip with plastic bags in the trees and drinks cans all over the place,despite there are litter bins that are hardly used.
This is not accidentally dropped by innocent people,it is intentionally dropped by lazy,selfish bstrds.Educating them doesn't seem to be effective,maybe cracking down on it is the only way."
^ 100% agree . Lazy worthless cunts !! Simple !! |
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A few years ago on the beach at studland in dorset a family got up to go and left a bag of litter behind plenty of big bins at the edge of the beach to put it in, so I shouts out excuse me you have left something behind, well the abuse the woman came out with was something terrible so I picked up the bag went over to the guy pulled open his shirt and stuffed it inside, she went berserk jumping on me and punching me I eventually pushed her off and walked away they chucked the rubbish down and stamped on it. After I wish I had not done it it caused a bad scene for everyone else. |
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? "
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"Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance?
plenty of early retirees kicking their heels who could feel useful to society by chipping in 20 hours a week too "
The retired seem to be the only people i have seen locally voluntarily litter picking. |
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"As much as Britian is partly to blame we contribute around 1% of the world's plastic waste. The problem lies in the poorer nations of Asia and Africa who have no recycling schemes and therefore crap is just dumped anywhere mainly in rivers . But we do certainly need to improve . Around my street lazy cunts drink beer and just leave the empties in the bus shelter when there is a bin 20 feet away Ffs. It's always Eastern Europeans round here that create 90% of the street rubbish . I've actually seen them walking along and literally throwing empty cans and bottles in the road . It's just my observations and I need to say it . Rant over .
How do you know they are eastern European???!!!!!"
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It's all very well to have a whinge about litter, but if all you do is step over rubbish and tut then I think you are just as irresponsible as the person who dropped it.
My daughter and I do regular litter picks on my street. It's actually pretty satisfying.
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"It's all very well to have a whinge about litter, but if all you do is step over rubbish and tut then I think you are just as irresponsible as the person who dropped it.
My daughter and I do regular litter picks on my street. It's actually pretty satisfying.
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A guy on the radio said last night the uk contributes around 0.02 per cent of the worlds waste plastic, when china and another country (forget which one) contribute something like 99% of the worlds waste plastic, thou we send most of our waste plastic over to china for recycleing presumably for profit, they certainly profit from us. |
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I'm at the beach, I pick up rubbish, put it in a bag, put it in a bin, the bin goes to landfill or is transported elsewhere for disposal, it ends up in the sea, I'm at the beach, I pick up the rubbish...... |
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Without going way off topic the human race is to blame for this and all manner of other ills. Collectively, we are the single worst thing ever to have happened to the planet. The sooner the human race is wiped out the better. Mother Nature will then sort out the rancid mess we have left behind. Very unpalatable but also very true - you have to look at "the big picture" - WE are to blame.
If God does exist and we are made in his image then something has gone mighty wrong. |
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According to the net quote
There’s a veritable shit ton of plastic floating around in the world’s oceans—between 10 and 30 billionpounds of it, to be imprecise—and more than half of it comes from just five countries.Those countries are China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam,
So pressure needs to be put on them or we will not get anywhere! |
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" What are we gonna do about it?"
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Were gonna moan a lot and write some blogs and put lots of pictures on Facebook and Instagram but do fuck all coz 99.9% of people are to lazy and can't be arsed.
As usual though they'll put great effort into chirping on and on about what they think others should do to solve the problem and how other people are the problem and what a fucking saintly life they lead coz when they go to the beach they take there nappies(disposable) home with them because they want little junior to grow up in a lovely dovely world.
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"According to the net quote
There’s a veritable shit ton of plastic floating around in the world’s oceans—between 10 and 30 billionpounds of it, to be imprecise—and more than half of it comes from just five countries.Those countries are China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam,
So pressure needs to be put on them or we will not get anywhere! "
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Yeah coz the Vietnamese and Thais and Indonesians just buy all they're shit wrapped in plastic don't they? |
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over a year ago
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The government say they will sort it out by 2042, i see no reason that all liquids have to be sold in glass bottles by law within 3 years.
You will still see litter louts leaving glass bottles everywhere, but it will be less detrimental to wildlife
And we can now recycle glass for road surfacing and even building sand, (basically nearly its natural form)
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"It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window.
Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance? "
I got told that you can only do voleentering at a charity shop. While on the dole. But if you do these placement Jobs temp no grantee a job after. Litter picking is technically a paid job . so unless the council was going too employ you. That is from the job center I asked |
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"The government say they will sort it out by 2042, i see no reason that all liquids have to be sold in glass bottles by law within 3 years.
You will still see litter louts leaving glass bottles everywhere, but it will be less detrimental to wildlife
And we can now recycle glass for road surfacing and even building sand, (basically nearly its natural form)
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Part of the plan is to reintroduce a deposit/return on glass bottles to encourage people not to leave so much litter.It was also explained to me, by a Greenpeace campaigner, that homeless people could make some money by collecting bottles from parks and gutters. A bit patronising for the homeless people but there may be something in that idea.I hope it doesn't mean people would become less sympathetic or generous towards homeless people as a result,you'd need a lot of 5p's to buy a burger. |
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"It's not just on the beach though Clem, it's bloody everywhere! I did some Community Service work about 15 years ago (yeah I was a naughty boy), and we had to collect rubbish from various parks and roadside hedges etc. It didn't take long to fill a big black bin liner of the stuff!
I know it can't all be recycled, but at least people should dispose of it properly instead of just chucking it on the ground or out of their car window.
Why isn't there more community service? Why don't those claiming unemployment benefit spend a couple of hours a day litter picking for instance?
I got told that you can only do voleentering at a charity shop. While on the dole. But if you do these placement Jobs temp no grantee a job after. Litter picking is technically a paid job . so unless the council was going too employ you. That is from the job center I asked "
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He wasn't volunteering, no voluntary work was entered into or thought about |
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" What are we gonna do about it?.
Were gonna moan a lot and write some blogs and put lots of pictures on Facebook and Instagram but do fuck all coz 99.9% of people are to lazy and can't be arsed.
As usual though they'll put great effort into chirping on and on about what they think others should do to solve the problem and how other people are the problem and what a fucking saintly life they lead coz when they go to the beach they take there nappies(disposable) home with them because they want little junior to grow up in a lovely dovely world.
In general the human race makes me wanna puke "
Some of us have been anti litter for years,some of us do pick up some of the litter in the street,some of us can't pick it all up,some of us do take our rubbish with us,some of us don't have children and have never left dirty nappies anywhere,some of us have never written a blog or jumped on the latest bandwagon just to be in with the in crowd.
Some of us do genuinely care and what you are describing is probably a small minority rather than 99.9% of the population. |
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"Here's the solution!.
Are you ready?
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Stop buying endless shit to fill that empty void in your soul! Voila, your welcome "
Endless s**t to fill a void in the soul? Like food,a lot of which comes wrapped in shiny clingfilm.
Of course we could all go to markets and independent grocers but then there might be additional environmental costs like the fuel used to drive around these different shops or to cart the stuff home.The supermarkets are the ones who provide all this packaging not the customers,we didn't ask for it. |
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" What are we gonna do about it?.
Were gonna moan a lot and write some blogs and put lots of pictures on Facebook and Instagram but do fuck all coz 99.9% of people are to lazy and can't be arsed.
As usual though they'll put great effort into chirping on and on about what they think others should do to solve the problem and how other people are the problem and what a fucking saintly life they lead coz when they go to the beach they take there nappies(disposable) home with them because they want little junior to grow up in a lovely dovely world.
In general the human race makes me wanna puke
Some of us have been anti litter for years,some of us do pick up some of the litter in the street,some of us can't pick it all up,some of us do take our rubbish with us,some of us don't have children and have never left dirty nappies anywhere,some of us have never written a blog or jumped on the latest bandwagon just to be in with the in crowd.
Some of us do genuinely care and what you are describing is probably a small minority rather than 99.9% of the population."
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A symptom of modern life is that "not dropping litter" or "I look after my children" has become a Brag! Something to feel proud about and set you apart from the majority! |
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"Here's the solution!.
Are you ready?
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Stop buying endless shit to fill that empty void in your soul! Voila, your welcome
Endless s**t to fill a void in the soul? Like food,a lot of which comes wrapped in shiny clingfilm.
Of course we could all go to markets and independent grocers but then there might be additional environmental costs like the fuel used to drive around these different shops or to cart the stuff home.The supermarkets are the ones who provide all this packaging not the customers,we didn't ask for it."
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That's why mother nature gave you legs... It wasn't just for pressing the peddles on the car or buying tights for |
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" What are we gonna do about it?.
Were gonna moan a lot and write some blogs and put lots of pictures on Facebook and Instagram but do fuck all coz 99.9% of people are to lazy and can't be arsed.
As usual though they'll put great effort into chirping on and on about what they think others should do to solve the problem and how other people are the problem and what a fucking saintly life they lead coz when they go to the beach they take there nappies(disposable) home with them because they want little junior to grow up in a lovely dovely world.
In general the human race makes me wanna puke
Some of us have been anti litter for years,some of us do pick up some of the litter in the street,some of us can't pick it all up,some of us do take our rubbish with us,some of us don't have children and have never left dirty nappies anywhere,some of us have never written a blog or jumped on the latest bandwagon just to be in with the in crowd.
Some of us do genuinely care and what you are describing is probably a small minority rather than 99.9% of the population..
A symptom of modern life is that "not dropping litter" or "I look after my children" has become a Brag! Something to feel proud about and set you apart from the majority!"
Well,failing to look after your children and being a litterbugger is hardly something to be proud of either.
Just ridiculing people for discussing the problem,saying they are not doing anything about it and that they themselves are the problem,is not doing anything to solve the problem.
Perhaps we could all get off our high horses and clean up some some litter on our way down from our tower.then we could all go to the beach and look at the sea,which is not full of our garbage being washed to Thailand or Indonesia. |
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"Here's the solution!.
Are you ready?
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Stop buying endless shit to fill that empty void in your soul! Voila, your welcome
Endless s**t to fill a void in the soul? Like food,a lot of which comes wrapped in shiny clingfilm.
Of course we could all go to markets and independent grocers but then there might be additional environmental costs like the fuel used to drive around these different shops or to cart the stuff home.The supermarkets are the ones who provide all this packaging not the customers,we didn't ask for it..
That's why mother nature gave you legs... It wasn't just for pressing the peddles on the car or buying tights for "
hey,don't just tell me.Go stand on the M60 and tell the thousands of rush hour commuters that they should all be working at jobs closer to home,that all produce should be locally produced and that every small village should have its own abbatoir,canning plant,brewery,power station and sex toy factory ,what an idyllic picture of time gone by that paints.
Meanwhile,back in the real world,,,,,, |
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" What are we gonna do about it?.
Were gonna moan a lot and write some blogs and put lots of pictures on Facebook and Instagram but do fuck all coz 99.9% of people are to lazy and can't be arsed.
As usual though they'll put great effort into chirping on and on about what they think others should do to solve the problem and how other people are the problem and what a fucking saintly life they lead coz when they go to the beach they take there nappies(disposable) home with them because they want little junior to grow up in a lovely dovely world.
In general the human race makes me wanna puke
Some of us have been anti litter for years,some of us do pick up some of the litter in the street,some of us can't pick it all up,some of us do take our rubbish with us,some of us don't have children and have never left dirty nappies anywhere,some of us have never written a blog or jumped on the latest bandwagon just to be in with the in crowd.
Some of us do genuinely care and what you are describing is probably a small minority rather than 99.9% of the population..
A symptom of modern life is that "not dropping litter" or "I look after my children" has become a Brag! Something to feel proud about and set you apart from the majority!
Well,failing to look after your children and being a litterbugger is hardly something to be proud of either.
Just ridiculing people for discussing the problem,saying they are not doing anything about it and that they themselves are the problem,is not doing anything to solve the problem.
Perhaps we could all get off our high horses and clean up some some litter on our way down from our tower.then we could all go to the beach and look at the sea,which is not full of our garbage being washed to Thailand or Indonesia."
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Don't panic, people fly to Thailand for a holiday of throwing rubbish on the beach, you've never lived till you've experienced it |
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"Here's the solution!.
Are you ready?
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Stop buying endless shit to fill that empty void in your soul! Voila, your welcome
Endless s**t to fill a void in the soul? Like food,a lot of which comes wrapped in shiny clingfilm.
Of course we could all go to markets and independent grocers but then there might be additional environmental costs like the fuel used to drive around these different shops or to cart the stuff home.The supermarkets are the ones who provide all this packaging not the customers,we didn't ask for it..
That's why mother nature gave you legs... It wasn't just for pressing the peddles on the car or buying tights for
hey,don't just tell me.Go stand on the M60 and tell the thousands of rush hour commuters that they should all be working at jobs closer to home,that all produce should be locally produced and that every small village should have its own abbatoir,canning plant,brewery,power station and sex toy factory ,what an idyllic picture of time gone by that paints.
Meanwhile,back in the real world,,,,,,"
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Meanwhile back in the real world you can carry on moaning about the shit hole your turning the world into ...huzzah that's progress |
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"its everywhere - if you look around when you walk the amount of rubbish in general is disgusting - one of my pets is dropping litter
Worst is when you're driving behind someone and it just keeps flying out of their window. Drives be mad. Pardon the pun. "
Get your passenger to note the reg number down, maybe even take a photo. Then report them to the council, they might get a fine through the post. |
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