Take your rubbish home

No it is not absurd to take wrappers home to put in your bin. Just carry one or two carrier bags with you - not difficult and put your rubbish in them to take home.

My family managed to always take our rubbish home with us if there were no bins and we only used buses or trains.

It's really easy to shove a carrier bag or even bin bag or bag for life in whatever you're carrying
We do it every time we swim so we can collect everyone else's rubbish on the way back
Or take some sandwich seal type ones for food waste. I mean TBF I wouldn't object to someone throwing an apple core on the floor but there's a difference between that and a plastic bottle

I live next to a forest. It's the same. Barbecues are illegal there but always get dumped. And the bagfuls of rubbish they all bring to the forest but don't seem able to take back out, so just dump it for unpaid local residents to clear up. It never gets better.

Singapore have got it right, very clean, no litter.

So you're completely against littering but fly-tipping is fine?

You don't think the local wildlife are going to rip the bags open and cause it to be strewn everywhere?

We live in a national park and there are no bins - this is intentional, as much of the park is too remote and people should leave no trace in natural spaces.

Still, people are absolutely disgusting. They leave their disposable barbecues - wtf do they think happens to them? And don’t get me started on the soiled nappies. I am waiting for the day I see someone drop a nappy so I can follow them back to their car with it and smear it on their windscreen. Dirty bastards.

@TaxDirector you shouldn't use a disposable barbecue if you refuse to ensure it's properly and safely disposed of.

Totally! People are fucking disgusting. There is never, ever an excuse for leaving rubbish. If there aren't any bins or the bins are full, you take it with you.

People also do not want to transport filthy food waste in their back pack and thats ok.

No, it’s not. If you don’t want to transport it then don’t buy it.

If I see there’s a full bin, I hold onto it until I get home or I come across a bin that is not overfilled. It is not difficult!

Yep, same situation here, the bins were feet away from the rubbish. The only reason I know the bins had room is because I ended up picking it all up and putting it in the bins. Can you imagine the state of the place if people didn’t volunteer and do litter picks. Someone even left their brand new designer top behind, I could tell it was new as the plastic loop was still attached to the label, they had just pulled the cardboard tag off it. Some people just don’t care. I know it isn’t the majority but it has such an impact.

Our local park has dozens of bins. Seriously, dozens! And people still throw their shit around the ground and leave the bins empty. One of the playgrounds (it's a big park) has five benches and 8 picnic tables around it. Within reach of those are 4 huge bins - the furthest you would ahve to walk to any of them is 20 feet. On Monday morning the ground and the play area around the benches and tables was strewn with litter despite the fact it was immaculately cleaned that morning by local volunteers. There was literally no rubbish in sight in any of the bins. I know because I picked up my dogs waste and put it in a bin. I bet the same people who think it's disgusting to take their leftover food and baby nappies home are the same ones who berate dog owners for not picking up....

Take a bunch of Tupperware boxes with your food in, bring the empty ones home again. Done. Why should the rest of us pay to have single use plastic that you bought your food in removed from local beauty spots? Entitled wankers.

Some people are joyless fuckers, you basically just don't want to share your beautiful space with anyone else and think if you make it miserable by banning nice activities you will reduce tourist numbers.

Grow up. Disposable barbecues are a fire hazard. We rarely make rules to cover the behaviour of the most responsible people in society and some people just aren't responsible. We have had bins literally burnt to ashes and a beach shelter damaged because some fuck wit thought it was OK to put a hot barbecue in a plastic bin. It's irresponsible arseholes who spoil it for everyone else not those of us who would rather not see fires on the seafront.

It’s really annoying. I was at the local park the other day and there are 2 bins inside and 2 just outside the park that were mostly empty yet there was rubbish left all over the grass and in the sandpit from the day before. A lot of it is definitely people with terrible attitudes. I despair sometimes!

The problem is that seagulls, foxes, cats and rats will get into it.

And also. The reason councils don't have people constantly going around behind litter-droppers with a dustpan and brush is because their budgets have been cut to the bone by 13 years of Tory mismanagement.

Some people are joyless fuckers, you basically just don't want to share your beautiful space with anyone else and think if you make it miserable by banning nice activities you will reduce tourist numbers.

I live near a beautiful open space in the centre of Bristol. This morning it is strewn with disposable BBQs, takeaway waste, clothing (?), food waste, plastic bottles and other crap. There are bins. Everywhere.

You are right, I don't want to share my beautiful space with people who come to somewhere glorious to enjoy it and then leave it in a worse state for everyone else. I don't care if they're local or visitors stay away if you can't leave the place as you found it for the sake of everyone else and the wildlife.

This doesn't happen in winter. There must be a kind of person who sees the outdoors as a toilet to shit in when the sun shines.

So don't effing use one, it's really really not hard

Single use bbq's are a travesty, appalling on so many levels. I do agree that provision should be made, but calling someone joyless because they don't like littering fuckers who are happy to start a wildfire just so they can cook a sausage just shows where you stand on this.

Also, why is the food waste more filthy than the food when you were bringing it?

There's a beautiful beach where I'm from. It's fairly remote but gets very busy with a mix of tourists and locals. There are next to no facilities at the beach, so anybody piling rubbish next to the bin (or leaving it in the sand) has almost certainly brought it from home. Its absolutely disgusting.

I can't understand the mentality. If I go to put something in the bin and it's full I just keep hold of it.

And of course its a person thing. We all choose how we behave and how we react to things. If there was a public bin next to your house that wasn't emptied frequently enough so people dropped their litter in your garden, I'm pretty sure you'd be blaming the individuals for being scruffy.

I really don't get why people think councils significantly benefit from tourist spending. They don't. People really need to understand the way local and district councils are funded.

Don't you realise the central government sets of he amount of money each council has, and that amount has gone down as councils obligation have risen? And that councils are making appallingly difficult decisions about what to spend their (insufficient) money on?
They are responsible for roads, lights, social care, education, housing in your area, as well as bins.

TBF if the bins are overflowing people are making the effort to be clean. The council's should place bigger bins or empty them more frequently

The bins clearly need to be emptied more frequently.

I am completely against littering but I see no problem with properly bagging your rubbish and leaving it next to the bin if the bin is too full.