Bastards

[Ramy48]

To be pissed off with idiots that drop their litter. Well I happened to be using public transport yesterday and some scumbag decided to clear out his bag on the seat next to me. The empty crisps packet, sweetie packets, receipts, old bits of paper.

Another one got on with her disgusting smelly chips and managed to scatter them all over the floor. Did she bother to pick her shyte up? Oh no, we'll just get off next stop so leave it there.

There was a half eaten apple under one seat, I was so sick I thought I was going to spew right there. I'm sorry I just can't understand why people do this to the planet.

I completely agree littering is disrespectful and unsightly. Wondering why there are no more bin it campaigns actually.

But I've never understood how it's bad for the environment? If I throw x away at home, or on the bus where bus cleaner throws it away for me, it still ends Up in landfill. Surely the item itself is the problem, not whether or not it's litter?

I haven't been to England in many years, but my wife and my sister visit England every year, and they frequently comment on the amount of litter/dog shit/anti-social behaviour in general.

Not sure of the cause or the solution, but there does seem to have been a general decline in civility

I I was walking past our local dominos when I saw one of their staff het into a car to make a delivery, he was eating and drinking as he got in, and he carefully put the empty wrapper and can on the road beside his car before driving off. I took them in the shop!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cVuvVRUE this is what I feel like doing

In a world full of difficult and seemingly intractable problems, litter is so easy to solve. If people bloody stopped dropping it it would be gone. On my work commute I see so much shit lining the roads and fantasise about bringing a black bag and just filling one a day. But of course I never do! Partly time and partly practicality - dangerous road, nowhere to stop.

It really annoys me because it's so unnecessary. I do pick up litter when I can if it looks reasonably clean! I trained my DD so well that when she was 2 she wanted to put all the fallen leaves into a bin! At 18 she wouldn't dream of dropping anything on the ground, but does let leaves lie!

I worked in St Andrews for a few years and used to walk along the beach often during lunch break. One day I walked past a family having a picnic at the beach, three generations, very young children, parents, grand parents, on my way back there was no sign of the family but all their rubbish was still there, plastic plates, cups, cutlery, food wrapping, everything.
Utterly disgraceful behaviour.

I don't think it's at all OTT to be absolutely infuriated by litterers and to call them in no uncertain terms. I suppose attitudes depend though on what your tolerance level is and how you like to live yourself and the impact you perceive it has on the environment and wildlife. Perhaps some people only realize if they witness the resultant problems for themselves, or perhaps they just don't care.

I've seen rubbish at our local railway station for a week now and the staff haven't bothered to do anything about it, so today I took a bag and collected it all, photographed it and tweeted the rail operator.
They've followed it up and said they're going to speak to the management team to make it a better environment. I hope they do.

Yanbu

Scum of the earth

People in this country are such slobs. When we visited Germany, I was really surprised at the lack of litter. It felt so neat and clean. The public transport was the same.

Country Life magazine has a campaign running, not just for the countryside though.

Look at some of these facts
Can We Stop The Rot campaign

In times of council cut backs it annoys me that street force teams are attending the same few neighbourhoods over and over again. I dread to think of the community groups that have had to withdraw services due to having grants reduced and yet we can prevent litter.
The WI inspired Keep Britain Tidy campaign could do with a come back.

I live alone with the dog .... on a very 'naice' estate. There is a school playing field at the bottom of my small back garden (often used by locals though).

I had quite a period of ill-health and my garden became over-grown. When I started to feel better, I booked a local firm to come for the day and strim, mow and cut back the shrubs. When I took their lunch out, I saw a stack of little drink tins (sort of vodka shots in tins). I looked puzzled and asked where they had come from. "We are finding them in the long grass. We didn't think they were yours, but they could damage our tools so we are having to remove them first."

I tutted and chundered a bit about thoughtlessness and said, "Oh dear. Put them to one side and I'll re-cycle them."

The final day's tally was 132 little tins, 8 spirit bottles and 24 carton boxes! Unknown to me, I had obviously been designated the 'local tip' ........

To be honest, I felt almost violated!

It does my head in. Ds is not even 2 and knows to put his rubbish in the bin on the train ( use lots of public transport!)

YANBU OP. Some people are just disgusting.

Oh YANBU. A few years ago I was on the afternoon school run when a few metres in front of me a car door opened and a banana skin was dumped right in the middle of the pavement. I kicked it meaning to kick it off the pavement but the bloody thing landed right on their windscreen. I'd never be able to do that ever again. I glared at the cuprit as i passed, I think they were as shocked as I was.

I hate litter dropping. It's really one of my "things". I've chased schoolkids up the road with their discarded wotsit packs and redbull cans. It's right up there with dog shit on my against the wall come the revolution list.

My poor child is 12 now and still subcribes to the "if you touched it, it's now YOUR rubbish" school of thought

I had a moment of pride last Saturday. My eldest son (27) came walking with me. As we walked through a field, he stopped... picked up an abandoned crisp packet, folded it up and put it in the outside pocket of the rucksack.

It's what I've always done and he did it too, without thought or hesitation.

We're all responsible for our locality and I'd rather be an educator than a moaner.

Clearly subcribes is the slightly tipsy term for subscribes.....

Shockers that's the 27 yo I hope for

People are cunts.

Agreed.

It annoys me soooo much! Especially if you see someone walking and theres a bin near them but they chuck whatever on the ground anyway!!! Part of me wants to say oi wtf clean your mess up, then the other cowardly part thinks what is the persons a nutjob and trys to stab me over a dropped empty packet of fags or whatever

Oh I hate this too!

Have told this story before, it's stayed with me for some reason.

Was out with my kids for a walk (this is 5-6 years ago). Woman up ahead with her toddler toddling along just behind her. She unwraps a pack of fags and drops the cellophane on the ground. Toddler scampers after it, picks it up and tries to give it back to her. Woman tells toddler in irritated tones "oh just drop it FGS"

Gave me the rage. I was quite close behind by this point so picked it up myself and may have made passive-aggressive comment to my DCs along lines of "oh look, some litter, LET'S PICK IT UP AND TAKE IT TO A BIN

Oh, the fly tippers. Driving out on a Sunday to dump their manky old sofa in a lovely country lane, when they could just as easily dispose of it at the tip a couple of miles away, free of charge

while I an absolutely not agreeing with fly tipping or littering, taking something to a tip is not always simple.

I wanted rid of a very old knackered sofa. It wouldn't fit in our car so we borrowed FIL's van. The tip wouldn't accept the sofa as it arrived in a commercial vehicle. FIL lived in a different county wasn't allowed to register his van at our tip. He had to register his van at his local tip and then he had to drive the sofa over 70 miles to his tip and pay for it, because it was a commercial vehicle.