To think some people are *#@*+s!

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Every now and again I come across behaviour from other people that so completely falls outside of what I consider reasonable it makes me angry.
Part of my job involves cleaning a toilet block and litter picking the car park beside it in the Lakes. Today I have picked up about 8kg of litter including an area where a carrier full of picnic things has been pulled apart and spread by wildlife that included a receipt for the food from 60 miles away, several dog poo bags hung on trees and to really top it off human excrement (because people don't wipe their dogs bum then place the loo roll on top) in the car park less than 100m from a free toilet block that is open 24 hours a day.

I understand a little bit of litter gets left when something drops out of a car door without you noticing but this is totally beyond that, I appreciate people want to travel to beautiful areas for a walk but at the moment...

Sorry for the rant but surely it can't just be me that feels this way can it?

It’s horrible isn’t it, People have no respect anymore.

That's utterly grim. I'd like to say I'm surprised but when I worked in retail it was far too common to find half eaten discarded food left on the shelves or in changing rooms. Some people are just disgusting.

You are NBU - there are some right cunts about. When I walk the dog and see the shit people have just tossed out of their vehicles I want to have a conversation with the cunts about why the fuck they think this is OK.

My mum was really surprised at how much litter is around when she came to visit me in the UK first.
Especially in the cities.

You are completely right to vent. It's disgraceful. It's this sense of entitlement that pisses me off the most. Why do they think it's ok for others to pick up their crap !???😡

Where I live parents teach their children that it's ok to litter. What's ironic is that the same families come back from holiday and rave on about how clean the streets etc are.

There were issues with the litter police, but in theory I supported their existence.

It would even be easy to blame people from outside the area (tourists from towns and cities) but at this point it must be people who are fairly local. It's just laziness and short term memory - they can just walk away and easily forget about it. I don't even think there's anything anyone can do to change people's mindsets.

I work in a supermarket and the number of people I've seen pick up and item, change their mind then just put it in a random place even though they haven't moved is huge. I work in a fresh production area and am nearly constantly having to check the shelf to ensure everything is in the right place and actually facing in the right direction. If people apply the same thinking (I'm finished now so gonna drop what I'm holding) than I can see how this mess can easily happen especially when there's that small extra step of finding a bin/taking it with you.

There’s nothing worse than walking around your local community seeing litter and dog poo everywhere, but there’s something infinitely worse about litter and excrement being left around local nature spots. People can be so utterly disgusting and self absorbed, I don’t understand it at all.

We started litterpicking last Spring as the amount of litter on our walks around our local area was appalling. We fill around four blackbags most weeks now, which is especially frustrating when the plentiful bins around the area are apparently ignored. We are registered pickers with a local Environmental charity and we have also recently joined plasticbusters.org.uk

What people did in the Highlands last year was awful. Dumping the waste from their chemical toilets in laybys, leaving litter everywhere, starting fires, one person even tied their washing line to a war memorial.

@Northofsomewhere I do agree that summer locals are probably doing some of it, unfortunately there are probably very small number of people ignoring lock down and contributing too, it isn't unusual to see campervans parked in out of the way lay-bys and car parks or tents in the woods, a farmer in a neighbouring villages found 4 people with a tent that has traveled from Portsmouth for a weekend camping last weekend.

@MedusasBadHairDay

That's utterly grim. I'd like to say I'm surprised but when I worked in retail it was far too common to find half eaten discarded food left on the shelves or in changing rooms. Some people are just disgusting.

Yes. I've found used sanitary towels in the changing rooms before!

I live in a National Park too, every day there are half a dozen posts on local FB pages expressing outrage at the amount of litter and dog mess and fly-tipping everywhere. One of our local play parks has decided to remove their litter bin because people fill it up so quickly and then just dump stuff all around it rather than taking it home. It's getting so much worse than it used to be, its so busy everywhere all of the time with cars and cyclists everywhere.

PeskyRooks Oh wow. Never saw that myself, thankful. But I know my colleagues had to clean up some poo in a changing room before (I was so glad to be off that day)

It is a pity that receipts cannot identify the person concerned, otherwise the local police could be fining the individual.

I hope where people are travelling long distances they are being fined. Personally I wish they were taken to court and had points on their licence, but given that would apply to Dominic Cummings and Robert Jenrick it was never going to happen.

Although I am firmly opposed to death penalty, I'm happy to reintroduce it for littering. However, tech may help ...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-56255823

CCTV cameras will soon have a new target - litter louts.

AI software can now match footage of motorists throwing rubbish to their car's number plate and issue an automatic fine of £90.

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