who are the people littering etc?

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No one on here would admit to littering or not picking up dog poo? So who is it?

Prompted by watching a family at the weekend finish their KFC at a local beauty spot and toss the rubbish bag out the window. A couple and 2 kids.

And having to hopscotch through the dog poo on my walk to work this morning.

I always think this about gum too.
If you look at the pavement covered in it- that many people CANT have ALL dropped it?!
No Respect.

Please do! A friend of mine once threw a bag of McDs rubbish back through the window of the car it was thrown out of (they were stopped at traffic lights).

I once asked a teenager in the playground to put her drink can in the bin instead of leaving it on the grass. She picked it up, walked over to the woods and threw it in a massive prickly bush instead. It made the DC so upset.

We litter pick, mostly along the road we live on. The amount of litter, mostly from brands like Costa, coke and McDonald's is absolutely disgusting. Who the f in this day and age chucks litter out of a car? Apparently lots of people because there's always more.

Littering in town I can just about understand. I would never do it but there's a lot of research showing that when a place is dirty/littered/graffitied then it multiplies. And our local town at least is pretty bloody dirty. There's not really any shame attached to littering in the UK in the same way that there is in some other countries (eg Oz I think? Or so Aussie friends tell me).

But what I can NEVER understand is people who leave litter in beautiful places that they've had to make an effort to get to. We hiked to a waterfall that was 6 miles from the trailhead last summer and there were quite a few cigarette butts/wrappers tucked into gaps in rocks etc. Who makes the effort to walk 6 miles to be somewhere beautiful and then leaves it looking shitty?

We have a litter problem on the green (very pretentious way to describe an extremely wide grass verge!). Its die to the bin not being emptied enough so rubbish blows out. After many badgering phonecalls by a persistent neighbour its now emptied twice a week and most of the problem is eliminated.

Its motorway verges that astound me... it has to be deliberate. Its less effort to keep the rubbish in your car until you get home!!

There are many people who just don't care about keeping their city and environment clean. I once saw a man chuck a used handkerchief out of his car at a supermarket car park, I made a disgusted face at him. He said "Pick it up yourself if it bothers you" and drove off. It's that kind of people, and teenagers who think they're being cool.

A lot of it is teens imo. Also bins themselves. I walk through a beautiful park on my way to work which has multiple unnecessary bins and rubbish all over the place each morning. I am utterly convinced that if there were no bins they’d be no rubbish ( the rubbish is always where the bins are)
the rubbish is scattered by crows, rooks, squirrels, wind out of the bins not really people dropping it.

I bet if that bin was removed the rubbish problem would instantly disappear!

I live right by the coast in Argyll&Bute. dp and I went for a walk along the coastal path outside our house one lovely August evening last year and bumped into a family with four young kids. The father blew up small balloons and set them onto the water to drift off so they could take pictures of the coloured balloons against the setting sun. When I asked him if he didn't think that there was enough rubbish in the sea to throttle wildlife already he got all shouty and sweary. I'm still utterly furious when I think about them.

I'm in Scotland and we are supposedly so proud and nationalistic - but it doesn't stop the verges look like giant rubbish tips.

In my local park one of the bins had been damaged so was taken away. I noticed it on my dog walk (not the only bin in the park I might add) so just held onto poo bag until saw next bin.

What did others do? Left a pile of poo filled bags on the floor where the bin used to be 🙈. they obviously thought the bin was still there but now invisible,

empty coffee cups in the dog poo bins annoy me immensely

The age group who litter most are 18-24year olds actually.

It’s disgusting and people who do this are scum. They can do what they want in their own filthy homes but why should the rest of us have to look at their rubbish? Dirty bastards.

I recently saw a woman with two kids throw her half eaten McDonald’s out of the car window onto the road. We pulled up to the traffic lights next to her and I asked her why she did that and she went mental. Great example to set the kids. Same day, saw a guy Chuck his beer van on the floor. He was about 3 feet from a bin.

Then there’s all the dog walkers, helpfully leaving poo bags on trees for others to sort out. I mean, who do they think sorts that? Their slaves? Smokers who think it’s ok to Chuck fag butts on the floor. And on a side note, don’t get me started on the spitters 🤮 🤮

To me, it’s a certain class of person. A scummy person who only cares about themselves and not others basically.

People have bins at home

That would be hilarious. I'd love to see it 😂

Seriously though, well done you on that act of community service.

There are some children around here, all very middle class by the way it is not a ghetto!, whom can do no wrong. They are the prince and princesses of their parent's lives. Never been corrected. They are now entitled, littering, pushy teenagers, soon to be entitled, littering adults.

It's how they are brought up.

And entitled gammons and karens who are now keyboard warriors and think their opinions are vital to life so now they are very important, too important to put litter in a bin.

And there are too many dog to owners now who have no idea how to look after a goldfish never mind a dog, but dogs look better on insta, everyone else can deal with their mess.

MintJulia · Today 06:44

I go and pick up their rubbish - every flippin' weekend....😡 They live three roads up. I'd love to store up their rubbish and then dump it on their front door step one Sunday morning, for them to deal with.

A guy I work with lives near a school and the kids cut through the lane there. There's a lot of litter dropped by them. He confronted some of them a few times and was sworn at. He complained to the school and they said they'd have an assembly, which didn't stop it.

One day, he collected two bin liners full of cans and crisp bags, went to the school and dumped it out of the bags, onto the floor, to the outrage of the staff. At some point, the headmaster came out and colleague had an argument and told him it was from that lunchtime and if it didn't stop, he'd do it every day.

It stopped soon afterwards, with a couple of teachers patrolling the lane.

I've occasionally been out with my dogs and no bin - I take it home and put the bags in my bin! Simples! And I've very rarely been out that there aren't other dog walkers - ask if they have a spare bag.
But the rubbish - after a match in our local park and there's tons of paper/plastic drink containers food wrappers etc. These are the parents!

Tradesmen are the worst in my opinion. I have had outside builders around for the last six months and I have had to pick up all their litter daily. If I see them drop it I will ask them to pick it up but I can't watch them all the time. It is disgusting.

I'm always shocked by the litter along main roads, roundabouts and motorways in the UK. In France I think there are crews that clean it up. I'm definitely not saying the French don't litter.

Totally agree and in France you often see kids/teenagers in yellow vests picking up rubbish on the verges, couldn't that be a good punishment for teenagers here? I am sure there are schemes like that but should be more of them imo

People here have been asking for extra dog bins, but apparently, it’s not the bins, or lack of, that’s the problem, it’s the money it costs to get them emptied more frequently.

All the open areas here are full of litter, especially the skate park and playgrounds. What’s the point of providing an amenity if it’s going to be trashed.

Do it!