Is UK now one big rubbish tip

Beautiful very rural location.
Rubbish everywhere and getting worse and worse.

My town is okish, but we have lots of volunteers. The main roads and dual carriageways are horrific. I think covid was the watershed. It was not like this before then. I worry my kids think it’s normal. I will vote for anyone who fixes it.

North Staffs/Cheshire border is sparsely populated though. Drive through Birmingham and it's a different story.

In my experience, it's young men in cars, eating, drinking and vaping as they drive, then lobbing the remnants out of the window.

I see them do it on my road. Sone even stop outside my house, empty their rubbish onto the pavement /into the gutter, then drive off. This tends to be under the cover of darkness (caught on my ring doorbell).

I sometimes wonder if it's linked to the gig economy and cost of living, with more people having multiple jobs, a lot if them as delivery drivers/uber drivers.

Dont get me started on the bottles of piss on the verges.

I’m a village litter picker and sick of picking up bags of human waste (with gloves and sticks), discarded food, Mac Donalds
and Costa packaging, etc.

There is not enough social shame.

It’s been like this for at least a decade. That’s when I first rang our local authority to ask why it was so bad. They told me increased population density and more takeaway outlets. We don’t need to be eating and drinking in cars all the time.

I'm a member of a large volunteer litter picker group and we do sterling work. Unfortunately, we cannot pick along dual carriageways for safety reasons, so they often look bad. So much rubbish is thrown from moving cars.

It’s definitely got worse and it’s all to do with the breakdown of society with no consequences or consideration for anyone or anything except self .

Everywhere has litter by the side of the road. Even Kent. Probably especially Kent as things blow off lorries.

There's a country park next to a leisure centre near where I live and there were bottles everywhere. Why are people dumping so many plastic bottles - full and empty?

There's been a poor dead fox on the dual carriageway near me, at least since monday. 😢

DS's school organises litter picks every 3 months or so and they always collect LOTS of rubbish. Mainly vape cases and takeaway food waste. We are in South Wales.

Everyone that cares about this really needs to try and fight against it and litter pick as much as they can. It's something we can all do and it does make a difference. It's absolutely disgusting the state this country is getting in and there's not enough being said or done about it. It should be being shouted about from the rooftops not just accepted.

That has happened by us. It made the newspapers.

I've noticed it too. It's the worst it's ever been. A few things:
-Takeaway, drive through everywhere and people dumping stuff from cars.
-Councils with no money because the budgets for things like adult social care are not ring fenced.

I litter pick round my area and I refuse to accept this is how our country is going. If only a small group of us do this we could make a huge difference.

Meanwhile the govt. could put 5p on every can, bottle, crisp packet and coffee cup and use the money for street cleaning.

A whole caravan of shit has been toed and dumped in a road by my house

The worrying thing is that it's not just aesthetics.

It's a symptom of a failing social contract and a sign of worse to come. Where rubbish flourishes crime follows.

The small stuff like bottles and food packaging are chucked out of cars.

The sense of civic duty is dead. The country itself is finished. Fast on its way to becoming a third world hellhole.

16 yrs and never seen a litter picker in my lovely town

It's horrible. Rubbish everywhere.

I will vote for anyone who manages to clear the fucking tip we've turned into, even for Starmer.

My town isn't too bad, the council employ two full time litter pickers and there are regular voluntary groups targeting specific areas.

The main roads and the dual carriageways are terrible. Nearly all of it seems to be fast food debris.

Yep. Glasgow is one giant shit tip of litter.

A lot of Roma have moved to my local area. You can tell by the amount of rubbish and fly tipping that has increased. Grotty as hell.

I expect that there is a dedicated team of volunteer litter-pickers in your town and you just haven't noticed them. Places that are tidy have been tidied, it's not a state that happens by luck.

I am finding t so depressing that people now don’t seem to care outside the bubble of their own car/home. I live in a beautiful rural tourist area and we are always litter picking. Some of the rubbish is really revolting.

Would it be better for councils to make the dump free but put additional charge on business rates/council tax to cover this and save on constantly having to send out teams to clear explosive laughing gas canisters and rubbish?

People always say schools should teach children about this but they already do.

Also why can’t we enforce circular systems for packaging and phase out all the ridiculous single use plastic that just gets thrown away? Make the companies producing all this waste more responsible for where it ends up.

Big fines and publicity around people who do this but not sure how it could be enforced?