Take your rubbish home

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I live by the sea. My morning walk along the beach today consisted of overflowing bins, tied up carrier bags and tied up black sacks next to bins. I counted 5 disposable BBQs.

I also saw rubbish strewn everywhere, as the seagulls and foxes had an overnight party opening up bags and feasting on the remains.

I love the visitors. I love what they bring to the town. I enjoy seeing the camper vans parked overnight along the seafront. I don't love the vast swathes of rubbish they leave.

If visiting a beautiful tourist place, put your rubbish in your vehicle and take your mess home with you. Particularly if there's no room in the bin. A black sack next to the bin is completely unacceptable when it can easily go home with you.

My council tax is paying to clear up your daily mess.

YABU - there's a reason there's bins.
YANBU - you should leave places as you find them

Why wouldn't you take it home with you?

I would blame the council before blaming people that have collected all their rubbish into a black sack and then had nowhere to dispose of it.

The councils know this is a problem every year so they should provide more bins and more regular collections.

Yes clearly people shouldn’t do that. Op described bags places next to bins, giving the impression people tried to clear up and put things in a sensible place for collection.

my point is, people are attempting to use the bin , but the bin is full. Clearly many people aren’t prepared to take their rubbish in the car/train, so it seems sensible that somewhere with this issue would adapt their refuse policies to manage visitors at peak times. Especially somewhere that is a tourist destination. Some places manage this extremely well, with recycling bins, bins that crush as you put stuff in them, bins that are bird safe etc. so I’m always confused when other places seem incapable of managing it well.

YABU to assume it's mainly visitors. My family live in a tourist area and the good weather also means local people take the opportunity to enjoy their area and leave rubbish in the over flowing bins.

The council should be prepared in the summer months if tourism is bringing in money to their area. I really don't understand why they can't sort this out. To be fair to you, as a local this would annoy me.

I live across the road from a lovely lake and woodland area. There are nine bins in a very small area, all of which are emptied regularly. However people still dump their rubbish everywhere. When I walked past the other day there were even plates and glasses from the local pub dumped on one of the benches.

The car park is full of pizza boxes, McDonald’s wrappers takeaway containers and the odd smashed bottle. It’s sheer bloody laziness and lack of consideration for other people. Take your rubbish home you lazy scum.

Yes bins should be emptied regularly but people need to take responsibility for their own rubbish.

In a really busy place a bin can be filled quite quickly and it is never going to be feasible for it to be emptied several times a day.

When we were young we would go for picnics with our parents and would always take our rubbish home if there were no bin. My parents never drove so we always used buses and trains.

We have a terrible attitude to litter in this country. It's disgusting.

Tourist money doesn't pay for the council tax. If the bins are full, take your crap home.

Some people have the attitude that they've got the right to enjoy themselves and someone else should be cleaning up after them, instead of realising that there's responsibilities that come with those rights.
And will get aggressive, or become the poor picked on victim if they're challenged. And the most likely to be all "I'm not going there again, it's a mess! Not enough skivvies to clean up!"

That said, I work in a seaside town and the council are useless, there are bins but every summer we get swamped with tourists and day trippers, and every summer there's the same problem, yet no extra bins, no extra collections, just a plea for locals and businesses to help by litter picking and a few signs asking people to use bins that are overflowing.

I do think businesses that sell stuff they know will be disposed of have a duty to provide some method of disposal and help with a clean up, several on the sea front here do, and they do get used and emptied regularly, but when people wander off with takeaway cartons etc to sit on the beach they just get left because they can't be bothered to walk back.

There was a big event recently, a lot of money put into it, buses laid on for a park and ride, barriers, police etc. Not one extra bin.

Nope. It’s on the lazy fuckers who have decided to plonk rubbish down next to an overflowing bin.

We can whinge and moan about the council all we want. However my local council are bloody awful when it comes to picking up litter. Therefore people need to take some personal responsibility.

I agree. People need to take responsibility and stop expecting external agencies to do everything.

It's both. There should be more bins and they need to be emptied regularly in tourist season. But also people need to take responsibility for themselves, they brought the items in something.

Why is it a council’s job to step
in to sort out the mess left by selfish tw*ts who would be the first to complain if they stepped on it and got hurt. It’s beyond me why people go somewhere beautiful and then destroy it for others. Councils
could earn a fortune fining people for dropping litter. It’s dangerous to humans and animals and is disgusting.

The bins need to be emptied more, particularly weekends and school holidays.
Ive seen seagulls actually taking rubbish out of bins, so it’s not always the human’s fault.

I went to the beach this weekend. Took a picnic. As if by magic, all the rubbish we'd brought somehow fit back in the cool bag once it was empty so we could take it home and throw it away there! Remarkable.

Fly tipping and littering is lazy scummy behaviour. Natural beauty spots shouldn't be turned into large garbage depots because some people can't be arsed to carry home what they brought with them.

We saw a few volunteers litter picking during the day, but they shouldn't have to do that.

I already explained why.

If you've managed to bring it with you, you can manage taking it home.

I can’t vote either of your options. People haven’t left the beach in a mess, they have put it in the bin or tried to. This isn’t a people issue it’s a bin issue. You either need more bins or they need to emptied more.

The bins are emptied at least once a day. Council litter pickers too.

There's an abundance of bins, including extra large wheelie bins during the summer.

And still there's a mess every morning.

Nah, people are just dirty. If the bin is overflowing, I take my stuff to then next bin, not dump it.

I never bring stuff with me

Some of this will be due to airbnb businesses being unwilling to pay for commercial waste collection.

The type of people who freely dump stuff rather than taking it with them, aren't going to be using bins anyway.

We have a lovely notice in our local parks:

PLEASE TAKE YOUR RUBBISH HOME
We don't have bins because:
They attract Wasps
They attract vermin
They provide a unhealthy food source for the wildlife we try to protect.

In all honesty, most people do take their rubbish home, I think the wasps thing is the biggest deterrent!

No you haven't explained why?

Why don't you pop your litter into your bags between all of you?

How is it not a people issue?

People see a bin is full so stupid people try to use it regardless, instead of taking it with them.