Britain is just one big landfill shithole

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Been out visiting relatives....I am actually shocked just how bad the litter is. Its bloody everywhere, frankly it's depressing. Where is our Pride? The motorways and A roads are so bad. Along with the absolutely shocking driving standards.

WTAF?

Ah yes unfortunately everywhere in Scotland. What a fright for visitors!

YANBU. And it mostly belongs to fast food eaters, smokers and drinkers (alcohol and soft drinks), so tends to be younger people unfortunately. My parents taught me to put rubbish in the bin or take it home, maybe that's what's lacking. If you can carry food/drink somewhere you can carry the empty packaging back - so why don't they?

They've paid £600 this time (paltry sum I know) but if they keep on doing it (and it's always the same ones) and they keep on getting caught, because you and others provide information, then they will get bigger fines. Then it will be too expensive for them to run their house clearance business/whatever other business and they will start going to the tips and disposing of it correctly.

Why would you not be tho, even in your own surroundings?

Of course we must feel proud of the country we live in, care to keep it nice, clean, a good environment for our children and the wildlife.
You see, I cannot understand people who does not value dearly the land they live in. I know quite a few in RL, but I really cannot relate. This is one of the things that makes me not wanting to be close to that person.
UK is beautiful, by the way. Countryside is stunnibg.
Cities and towns do need a good cleaning, some flowers and bins, and a heavy hand of paint. But some really pretty buildings and little spots.

The bar is low if not littering is a sign of perfect. It's just second nature to not drop rubbish fir most people surely?

YANBU!

Where I live it's a massive overflowing bin bag. Rubbish and dirt everywhere.

Even the so called 'posh' end of town where ds goes to school can't escape it. Where I park there are several sofas that have been dumped and I've reported it to the council 4 times and they still won't do anything.

Everyone who is bothered by the litter by A roads and motorways needs to write to their MPs. It's not the responsibility of the council and not possible for local litter picking groups to tackle. The highways department needs to prioritise annual clean ups. It's actually a real hazard to leave it as it attracts foxes and badgers who then get killed on the roads and as well as it being heart breaking seeing so many dead on the roads, it's also dangerous as the bodies create hazards. Write to your MP.

Oh, and send the MP a link to this thread!

Do you seriously never drive down an A road in Britain?? I don't want to say exactly where I was but driving between a few very average towns in the SE today using A roads, the verges on ALL of them were covered in rubbish.

That may be in your area but I live in Scotland and there is indeed loads of rubbish left on the sides of the road in the Highlands. It's very evident everywhere.

Just as an aside, a few years ago people on community service were tasked to plant daffodils bulbs on a sloping grass verge on the side of a busy dual carriageway.

All well and good until spring,when once the daffs were in bloom the words 'bollocks' and 'twat could be clearly seen😄.
It was even in the national newspapers!

I have been litter picking in my local woods for over 20 years. I always carry a carrier bag for more obvious litter.
I live in a lovely overgrown village in the South East.
Previously, it teenage litter but now the yummy mummies think nothing of throwing their take away coffee cup into the bushes. Along with their dog poo bag. Or they leave neatly at the entrance!
For years the local teenagers have used it for drinking. Kids from the local Public School were caught doing drugs there on a Wednesday afternoon several years ago.
Have found undelivered charity bags, beer bottles, wine bottles, some unopened.
Ladies underwear, bags that people couldn't be bothered to take to a charity shop, bikes, coats blazers etc. Builders rubbish.
It has got much worse since covid.

Agree.

Around me (east midlands) they blame the same things as they do for the lack of grass cutting ... wrong weather or something nesting/breeding, and that's in addition to the usual whines about money

So one way and another they've stopped doing this type of work almost completely, though it hasn't stopped them creating cycle paths in totally inappropriate places at the cost of millions

And yes I know it's all supposed to come from "different pots" but don't care; it's still public money and needs allocating better

It’s lovely where I live! Compared to a lot of countries Britain is fine, India is truly shocking. Litter, literally, everywhere.

Even in beauty spots, the Taj Mahal, the Himalayas, just layers of litter, and worse as the toilet situation isn’t great.

Gave me a new appreciation for the UK!

Definitely don't recognise this around where I live! Once in a blue moon, you might see a single piece of McDonald's rubbish on the roadside whilst driving and you only notice it because it is so rare.

Yeh maybe Scotland is not quite as bad as India but I feel it could get that way. Litter everywhere and motor homes discharging their effluence anywhere they like. It's like nobody gives a fuck.

Where do you live? Even in a small town i see litter everywhere.

It costs money. The workers have to be supervised.

I agree, but it still doesn't excuse the behaviour of the people dropping rubbish without any thought to the environment.

Plenty of people don't drive down a roads

I got out of my car at a garden centre last week to be greeted with a wet wipe and a lump of toddler poo next to the parent and child space. What is wrong with people 😡

There’s no litter in our village but that’s because there’s more people who pick it up than drop it. We live between two McDonald’s and the junctions are a hot spot for people chucking McDonald’s stuff out of their car.

if you go somewhere and there’s no rubbish then that just means the locals are picking it up, in my opinion. It’s relentless.