Littering

[STEVIEBOY1]

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Ths image is of an LBSCR sign, post Spanish Flu, saying:

LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY
PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION
——————————§——————————
PASSENGERS ARE EARNESTLY REQUESTED
TO ABSTAIN FROM THE DANGEROUS
AND OBJECTIONABLE HABIT OF
SPITTING.​

I seem to remember seeing similar no spitting signs on the Paris Metro when there with the school in the 1970s.

 

[Tetchytyke]

I wonder how many of those people littering are the same people who jumped on the environment bandwagon when it meant they could get a day off school ‘protesting’

Steady on old chap, I reckon it's fairly safe to say the littering around beaches, car parks and in Liverpool isn't caused by environmentally conscious 12yo children. Still, it is fascinating you immediately blamed the group you don't agree with, I have to say!

The government should come down hard on littering like we’ve seen in recent days, but if they did they’d be ridiculed for spending time on something so trival

Littering goes up when council budgets go down. The only ones who'd be upset at councils having a bigger environmental budget are those numpties who think austerity is great. So, the Tories

Part of it, though, comes down to "broken windows" ie if there is litter there already, some people will think it acceptable to add to it.

I'd say a lot of it does, actually. If you see an area with overflowing bins that the council clearly haven't emptied for weeks, people are going to add to it. If the council don't care, why should they?

People generally take the path of least resistance. If it is easy and convenient to dispose of rubbish responsibly, they will do so. If it isn't, they won't.

On a big scale, you see increases in fly-tipping when councils restrict use of household waste sites. To cover budget issues some councils are charging up to fifty quid to dispose of a fridge/freezer, needless to say instances of fridge/freezers getting tipped in hedges goes up just as quickly as the fees do.

On a smaller scale, it's the same. Modern trains have tiny stupid little bins, if they have any bins at all, and big stations don't have bins either, so people leave rubbish on tables.

 

[Tom B]

It's also convenient for councils, TOCs etc to point to 'security' reasons for removing bins, when the actual fact is they don't want to pay to empty them.

Where I used to live, it was practice to leave unwanted furniture etc next to the recycling bins; it would usually get picked up either by a local passing by, or else by scrap-men out for cash - anything left over would be lifted by the dustmen. The table that my PC sits on whilst I write this post is one of a number of acquisitions from there!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Did anyone see the rubbish documentary on Channel Five last night (insert your own punchline here! ) which showed a couple of enforcement officers from Basildon (?) council attempting to track down who exactly had dumped a pile of Maccy D's related rubbish at the roadside, armed with the till receipt from the Drive Thru window which had been left with the discarded packaging.

It transpired that the vehicle from which the order was taken was on false plates!

 

[PeterC]

Did anyone see the rubbish documentary on Channel Five last night (insert your own punchline here! ) which showed a couple of enforcement officers from Basildon (?) council attempting to track down who exactly had dumped a pile of Maccy D's related rubbish at the roadside, armed with the till receipt from the Drive Thru window which had been left with the discarded packaging.

It transpired that the vehicle from which the order was taken was on false plates!

Back in the 1980s in Basildon a guy was spotted fly tipping on a public green in a council estate. A resident followed him home to an expensive private development in Pitsea and then called the council. They turned up with a truck and a photographer from the local paper, took the rubbish back to the perpetrator and dropped it on his front lawn, and invoiced him for the "service". The silly thing was that the guy had to drive past the entrance to the tip to get the the place where he dumped the rubbish, there were no charges back then.

I know that Marlow used to have a problem with one area of expensive houses where it just wasn't done to have bin bags outside the house. Some residents woul take them to the council estate and leave them there instead.