the mentality behind people who leave their trash in parkland/nature reserves

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I just can't fathom why people do this. Where do they think their lucozade bottles, plastic cups, sandwich wrappers are going to go?

I've just picked up a whole carrier bags worth of stuff on my dog walk (and there's more) and it just makes me so mad.

What's worse, the parkland we walk in, has cows and horses grazing over the summer so these innocent animals could be harmed. Not to mention the amount of discarded chicken bones and other food leftovers my dog has scoffed before I realize.

Why do some have no respect for the environment in this day and age?

I just don’t understand littering at all.

I had to stop myself from practically throwing myself into traffic when a carrier bag under the buggy was whipped into the air by high winds. I felt SO guilty, but I never would have caught up with it.

YNBU I've been asking myself the same thing. It's totally baffling as they're spoiling it for themselves as well, quite apart from anything else.
In the last 4 weeks we went walking twice in a lovely local country park / reserve near us. Similar numbers of ppl both times. First time was in the middle of lockdown: saw no litter, I mean none. Second time last weekend: amount of rubbish was unbelievable! Every single spot where ppl might take a break had cans, packets, bags of dogshit, takeaway boxes lying around and shoved under bushes. Absolutely disgusting and spoiling a gem of a place.

It's no excuse, but most of the time there aren't enough bins. More bins, more chance that people will use them.

Or just take your rubbish home? Quite simple really.

People will never change. They can be stood beside a bin and still manage to drop it on the ground. These are the same people who have to be told to wash their hands after going to the toilet. They aren't much more evolved than animals.

We visited a rather lovely country park a couple of days ago and I just couldn’t believe the amount of plastic bottles we found on the ground. Just awful.

It really upsets me when people litter.
I live near a small green patch of land. For the past few weeks groups of young men have been congregating there. They have been playing loud music, and littering the grass with beer bottles and takeaway pizza boxes. I have had to go around picking up the bottles ( sometimes broken) and food wastes.
I have also seen a number of young men unabashedly throwing rubbish out of the car window . Absolute disgrace
My fourteen year old ds would rather put the rubbish in his rucksack than throw it on the floor

When I'm in charge of the country, anyone who drops litter will be sentenced to three years of weekend and bank holiday litter picking wearing hi vis clothing emblazoned with
I AM A TWAT. I DROPPED LITTER
I love it. When are you running?
All the bins by us have been sealed as the council doesn't have enough well workers to do the normal collections of the street bins.
The mess has been horrendous in some areas.

Here in Sheffield the locals have had to go and clear up the local parks and Woodlands every morning for the last week. The ground has been so covered in rubbish you could no longer see the grass. Finally after a bit of communication with the local councillor the police are now patrolling on horseback and the street cleaners/ park rangers have been deployed.
The peak district national park is similarly affected whenever its sunny.
It's not a new phenomenon though. I often go to our local park in millhouses, quite early in the morning. The voluntary rangers are there in force cleaning up the type and volume of rubbish described. Nappies, picnics, etc just left. It's nice and clean again by 10am which is when these people turn up to destroy the place again.
You can't just blame young men. They're not leaving nappies and fruit shoot bottles about.
I don't understand it either. It makes me angry.

A friend of mine politely challenged a man who dumped a load of litter whilst standing about 2m from a bin. He punched her in the face. These people are appalling.

It needs policing properly - the legislation to deal with littering is there, but no-one ever polices it.

I guess the issue at the moment is people using green spaces who wouldn’t usually be bothered. Hopefully they’ll piss off back to their minging pits when lockdown is over and they don’t feel they have to challenge authority by flouting the lockdown rules.

We once followed a car driving up through Kielder. The occupants chucked rubbish out of the windows every 3 or 4 miles over the course of a 40 mile journey. I would have enjoyed driving a tank that day and squashing them in a heap, along with their bags of crisps and fizzy drinks.

There is no excuse - such people are thick as mince, selfish arseholes.

People are nasty, scruffy bastards who don’t have 2 brain cells to rub together. God knows why it’s been so bad since lockdown started, maybe it’s because they can’t all just sit off in beer gardens instead. Scum of the earth.

It isn't just beauty spots. The main road in and out of the town centre where I live (miles inland and nowhere near any parks) is always strewn with rubbish - mainly packaging from takeaways and empty bottles/cans. If it's windy they blow into people's front gardens. I think it's equally bad to litter in urban areas - wherever litter is, it's an eyesore and it makes a boring or run down urban vista look even worse.

It was great when the takeaways were shut because it results in so much litter and excess packaging

Eloise fabulous sign!

Yes the takeaways will now result in far more litter, both in and out of bins. Takeaway coffee cups, plastic breakers etc. It’s incredibly bad for the environment. MacDonalds meal packaging thrown out of car windows and anywhere else people are going.

I've found that it's all types of people. DH, the DC and myself went for a walk in the winter in a "naice" area, on the outskirts of a "naice" golf club and even though we were in an economically upmarket area there were still poo bags left on fence posts and hung up in tree branches.
It seems the adage is "out of sight, out of mind"
We also go a "naice" UK beach for our summer holidays and litter is still left there.