what a sh##hole we live on

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It all comes down to a total lack of respect for anything or anyone, the perpetrators just don't care. Regarding minor offenders doing the job, Health and Safety ( safety boots, PPE, overalls etc) Duty of Care would all have to be adhered to and god forbid if there was and accident or injury, you could just see the 'No Win, No Fee Human Rights Lawyers queuing up.
 
Same every where. MacDonalds Meal seems to take about 8 miles to consume then out the window go wrappers and cans. That is a good idea of putting car reg on wrappers make the driver responsible for his passengers. Back in the day before the big soft drinks companies destroyed them we had local makers of sweet fizzy drinks. Those came in glass bottles which had a deposit payable on them, never saw many empty drinks bottles around the place then. Surely it would be possible with modern tins and plastic containers to evolve a deposit system through some sort of bar code reader wher 50p per container could be refunded on ,"posting" a bottle.

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Not to mention all of plastic bottles full of **** on all dual carrages up and down the country.
 
I phoned the OCADO head office after a delivery driver deposited the wrappers from his lunch in the gateway of an estate that I volunteered near Andover. I didn't have the reg but the nearest postcode, time and date was good enough for them to ping the driver. Hopefully he was reprimanded and reminded of the impression he gave of his company.
 
It definitely seems to be a culture thing, same with child discipline that seems to be much more controlled in mainland Europe. We as a nation must be doing something wrong not to be able to put litter in the correct place, or have children be respectful and considerate.
 
deerstalker.308 said:
It is bad over here, just returned from a trip to Holland and Germany and the contrast when we got off the ferry at this end was noticeable. They just don't seem to have the cultural problem we seem to have, either that or they're much better at keeping them clean.
I also notice how much road kill we have here compared and I find this just as unpleasant. On the same trip I saw one dead mammal (identity Unknown) in a 1500mile drive. I'd seen more than 50 dead pheasants, foxes, badgers etc within ten miles of leaving harwich....
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I remember being at university sitting at the train station in Brighton and saw a Swedish couple smoking, when they finished they stubbed out their cigarettes and put he butts in their pocket as there wasn't a bin there. When I told them that was unheard of in the UK they replied that littering in Sweden just wasn't the done thing.
 
Been backwards and forwards through Northamptonshire twice this weekend and, I'm ashamed to say, having grown up there, I suspect it is one of the worst areas in Britain for litter and general untidyness.
 
down here we have a french owned company which collects our recyclables, however they leave the sides of the lorry open for speed of collection and you always know where they have been.
 
Trackerman said:
It all comes down to a total lack of respect for anything or anyone, the perpetrators just don't care. .
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fly tipping, cigarette litter, fast food, plastic bottles, crisp packets,dog pooh in plastic bags in Bradgate deer park aaaaargh !! right to rant
 
Glyn 1 said:
Been backwards and forwards through Northamptonshire twice this weekend and, I'm ashamed to say, having grown up there, I suspect it is one of the worst areas in Britain for litter and general untidyness.
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when you look back when were kids glyn it was a great town and countryside its now a town centre I avoid totally the countryside well you'd struggle to find a rural road without tipping and litter on it something the rose of the shires should be ashamed of I know I am .
I am glad though that countryside users shooters and deer stalkers arnt adding to the problem and feel equally as apalled as I do .
Norma
 
Maybe as said earlier, all fast food should be marked, or just slap 20% on it and give to councils for street cleaning, or 30%, or 40%, whatever it takes. Everyone's had enough warnings, now let them pay. Eat in or pay the price.
 
they are everywhere, we suffer from it at the castle so this year we have cut back on what people can have to try and limit what we have to pick up at the end of each day,

saying that hat we have over 30 bins around the castle and gardens but they just don't bother to use them, I think the worst thing we have found was a pair of messed pants, left in a small poly bag just 3 feet from a bin, also a gents nappy rammed down the loo and then he tried to flush it,

bob.
 
There must be a way to get the naughty people doing it as Derbyshire has the community payback"volunteers cleaning all the A roads on a regular basis ,so i guess Northants cant be bothered .Derbyshire ive seen them on the A38 and A52 as lorry,s thunder past and to me community service should be just this
 
Anybody done better than this? A McDonald box at 2000 ft at least 20 miles from the nearest outlet.
In my late teens I saw and caught a bloke throwing litter in a water filled ditch from his car boot. I asked him to remove it, he told me to go forth and multiply so unfortunately for him he joined it. I went straight to our local village Bobby and told him, got a smile and a mild bollocking but the guy never complained. Now I would probably get two years for GBH.
 
Rupert J said:
I was on a litter pick yesterday....lots of bottles, cans, and, yes; McDonalds litter. I think McDonalds should do their bit and print vehicle reg on wrappings etc at the drive through....pretty simple idea and pretty simple to implement. Rupert
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That is a great idea.
The road from Canterbury to Dover is also disgusting in the few laybys available but I would hazard to guess they are caused mainly east European truck drivers being at fault as there are no KCC rubbish bins available in the laybys and the drivers do have to live in their cabs for weeks on end.
Martin
 
deeangeo said:
It definitely seems to be a culture thing, same with child discipline that seems to be much more controlled in mainland Europe. We as a nation must be doing something wrong not to be able to put litter in the correct place, or have children be respectful and considerate.
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And yet, based on the majority opinion expressed on here, Europe is a horriyfing cultural wasteland that we need to get away from as quickly as possible!

I never cease to be amazed (and ashamed) at how much cleaner, tidier and better cared for Dutch towns are than our own. Every time I go to visit my inlaws, I come away wondering what on earth has lead to the UK having such a generally appalling attitude to litter.

It's also not new - I vividly remember being utterly baffled when I first started coming to the UK in the 90s. Everything seemed so dirty and grubby, with rubbish everywhere. Nothing like what I'd been lead to expect - more like Nairobi than the idealised green and pleasant land I expected!
 
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