Take your rubbish home

[Globules]

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

@TaxDirector you shouldn't use a disposable barbecue if you refuse to ensure it's properly and safely disposed of.

We live in a national park and there are no bins - this is intentional, as much of the park is too remote and people should leave no trace in natural spaces.

Still, people are absolutely disgusting. They leave their disposable barbecues - wtf do they think happens to them? And don’t get me started on the soiled nappies. I am waiting for the day I see someone drop a nappy so I can follow them back to their car with it and smear it on their windscreen. Dirty bastards.

So you're completely against littering but fly-tipping is fine?

You don't think the local wildlife are going to rip the bags open and cause it to be strewn everywhere?

Singapore have got it right, very clean, no litter.

I live next to a forest. It's the same. Barbecues are illegal there but always get dumped. And the bagfuls of rubbish they all bring to the forest but don't seem able to take back out, so just dump it for unpaid local residents to clear up. It never gets better.

It's really easy to shove a carrier bag or even bin bag or bag for life in whatever you're carrying
We do it every time we swim so we can collect everyone else's rubbish on the way back
Or take some sandwich seal type ones for food waste. I mean TBF I wouldn't object to someone throwing an apple core on the floor but there's a difference between that and a plastic bottle

No it is not absurd to take wrappers home to put in your bin. Just carry one or two carrier bags with you - not difficult and put your rubbish in them to take home.

My family managed to always take our rubbish home with us if there were no bins and we only used buses or trains.