Do you ever drop litter?

No way Jose do I ever drop litter. The “Keep Britain Tidy” campaign has been with us for generations now. There is no excuse for deliberately littering but maybe it’s time to renew the campaign. I think it’s a combination of lazyitis and young men showing off to their mates.

Love that! 😂

There's a FB group, Truckers cleaning up Britain. Some of them are very conscious of the problem.

Disposable BBQ were temporary removed from sale due to a very dry and hot summer a couple of years ago.

They should be permanently be banned as people have BBQs in places where they are not allowed- beaches, many parks etc. There is only one park in Leicester and Leicestershire where can have disposable BBQs. Bede Park (shudder). Those who live in Leicester would know why I shuddered.

Plus get idiots who bury them in sand as sand acts like an insulator, not an extinguisher. The area where the DBBQ sits goes to 320c. Burying them is still about 90c. It requires 60c to get 3rd degree burns.

Then attracts idiots who leave everything behind. Seen bottles of sauce with just 2-3 burgers/hot dogs worth of sauce taken out, packs of rolls.

No I don't. I'd never confront someone who did though, or volunteer to pick up other people's litter. Dog poo is a much worse issue as it's harder to avoid.

I saw some local school kids drop kick a couple of empty drinks bottles on their way past my house…. I immediately got up intending to go outside and speak to them but then stopped myself as I realised they’d then know it was my house and could potentially do worse at a later date. Recognised that was a really sad realisation but unsure of the alternative to be honest.

See my post at 14.05 on this. 😡

What gets me is people who use the drive thru at McDonalds, eat the food in the car/car park then dump the rubbish out the window/on the floor. There’s always bins merely yards away. I’ve seen so many wrappers, cups and packets thrown from car windows on the roads too. It makes me feel more sad than angry, says everything I personally need to know about someone.

I’ve just moved to a new town from a city twelve miles away. I’m now in a different county so a different county council. There is very little little here. The city really depressed me.

When I walked my daughter to school there was litter everywhere. I think since Covid the council stopped regular litter picks and the binmen also went on strike for months which didn’t help with overflowing bins. Another thing that I found very depressing was how people would use a shared entry as a personal dumping ground. A fridge freezer, planks of wood, an old trampoline. I’m a firm believer that if an area has a litter problem already some people will not think twice of dropping litter themselves. If an area has no litter people are less likely to drop litter. I often go cycling in the countryside, don’t get me started on fly tipping.

Never ever ever intentionally. It's my pet hate.

That’s true. They are actually a real problem locally as they contain small batteries that have caused several bin lorry fires.

When I was a smoker (over 20 years ago) I used to drop cigarette butts

Friend and I were walking in the West End of London once. Outside the side door of a building was evidently the designated smokers' area - they had left fag ends all over the pavement. Disgusting.

Similarly in the City - the church of St Dunstan in the East was bombed but what remains of the church has been kept as a garden with seats - a lovely place for City workers to sit and eat their sandwiches when the weather is fine. Or would be, if it wasn't for all the fag ends on the ground around the seats. (But it is worth a visit, if you're in the area and want a place to sit down for a bit.)

Yes that is wrong especially when they are carrying out a service for the company

When I was a smoker (over 20 years ago) I used to drop cigarette butts. I didn't really see it as littering, just a sort of natural consequence of my being in a place, as if I'd left a few hairs or skin cells behind. Really odd as I wouldn't have dreamt of dropping any other sort of litter.

These days I not only don't drop litter but pick up other people's. We live near the beach and I regularly bring other people's crisp packets and bottles home with me. Penance for the fag ends, maybe.

You have probably seen bottles of urine chucked everywhere. Drivers’ tizer, the Wombles call it.

The problem is that delivery/lorry drivers have a crap infrastructure for truck stops. Secondly, drivers are refused access to toilets at companies that they deliver. Companies stopped allowing drivers to use their toilets due to Covid. Five years on, still companies still refuse to let drivers use toilets. Why? If you work at a place where get loads of deliveries, please let them use the toilets!

Never. Was brought up not to do it, as most of my generation. What kind of idle and thick scumbag parents DON'T teach their kids about this?

Yes and no. Before I switched from smoking to vaping I'd drop fag butt's, as a teenager I would litter and obviously there's the odd occasion when the wind has blown something away so iv unintentionally littered. As an adult I drum this into my kids and never litter anymore.

Oh God, NEVER. Litter louts are my biggest bugbear in this life. I would have them all publicly flogged because I hate them so, so much.

Wtf! That's absolutely awful ☹️

Never deliberately. There has been a few occasions when I've posted something into one of those bins with the slot opening and a gust of wind has whipped it out of my hand and blown it away.

Oh yeah and the well there wasn't a bin wah wah.

You're going home eventually. Carry your fucking shit until you get there and put it in your fucking bin.

I don't think you'll get many people coming on and saying yes, I'm a dirty selfish pig.

Litter is everywhere and it's clear a lot of people do it.

I live in a tourist hot-spot and the amount of litter they chuck everywhere is appalling. Disposable bbqs despite signs everywhere saying not to use them, empty sandwich packs, crisp pockets, chocolate wrappers, cans. Even dirty nappies. It's just disgusting.

Who goes to a lovely place for a nice walk and leaves all their figurative AND literal shit behind?

A few times a year some of the locals take to the fields and hills and fill up bin liners and put photos of them on the community fb page. When you see all these bin liners piled up you realise the scale of the problem.

There's a reason brits have a bad reputation in many other countries. Too many selfish dirty pissheads.

Few years back I was in a car park in town and watched a bloke open his car door, place his rubbish on the floor then close hus door and drive off.

PAST A BIN!!! The car park had bins.

He could have driven up to one of the bins and put his rubbish in it.

I wanted to drive after him and ask him why the fuck he did that but my husband, quite rightly I suppose, said that was a stupid idea.

I will never understand what goes in in the, well, brains I suppose, for want of a better word, of these people.

They just don't give a shit.

I bet they're the first to complain if they go somewhere nice and it's knee deep in other people's rubbish.

There are now many rubbish-laden areas that can't realistically be cleared - dual carriageways and trees being two of them. Some selfish moron chucks it (or sometimes, rubbish from bin collections gets blown around on windy days) and then the rubbish will be there for a long, long time. I hate it.

I agree with you re litter, I was just carrying on from one of my earlier posts about council cuts.