Do you ever drop litter?

[SwanOfThoseThings]

Inspired by the thread about the UK being in terminal decline.

It's true that there is litter everywhere, and this is by no means a new problem, litter has been a problem in the UK for as long as I can remember, and I'm in my 50s.

But - who is dropping it? It's the sort of thing no one admits to.

Are you a reformed litterer? Have you ever been forced to leave litter behind in an emergency situation? Have you ever been out and about with someone who dropped litter?

No never, and I always wonder the same as you, who is dropping the litter?

I have seen people throw litter from cars and vans and I’ve seen people leave litter on the beach.

I regularly see small children drop litter coming out of school and the parents either don’t notice or pretend not to notice.

Be careful doing this. My friend called a bloke out on dropping a sandwich wrapper. He punched her in the face. Absolute respect to her for pressing charges - it eventually went to court and he was convicted of assault. But awful experience for her

Oh and we live near country lanes and there is always a load of fly tipping.

Loads of people throwing fag ends, dog shit on the school run at least once a week.

Sone people are just disgusting and take no care or pride in where they live or visit.

Charities need to get rid of their donations bins from car parks. As these all attract fly tipping! As bags, mattresses etc are by them. I doubt anything in these bins are sold in charity shops. As they get set alight by scum and the charities rarely empty the bins

I bet those low life tossers (what us Wombles call people who dump/throw/drop litter) are those who in supermarkets, dump cheese in the baked beans, frozen burgers in the fresh meats.

Never ever ever. It’s one of my most hated anti social behaviours. If I have a piece of paper or something that blows away I chase after it!

I can’t stand it in the cinema either when people just leave their drinks containers and food wrappers. Just so rude

No i don't litter. Where i work is geographically between a school and a corner shop but also down the bottom of a slope.

Every morning n term time I watch young kids eating chocolate for breakfast from the corner shop, they chuck the litter wrappers on the floor and they blow down the slope. They also chuck their illegally purchased vapes down.

I live on a road that leads to open countryside and 3 to 4 times entire takeaway bags of litter get dumped.

If you go to one of the big city parks at the end of a hot day, say Hyde Park in Leeds the students will have left it an absolute shithole. They order takeaway to the park and just leave their detritus.

Time for harsh penalties. Get caught littering. 100 hours of litter picking in a bright orange jumpsuit in a busy area so everyone can see what a shameful, environment ruining, selfish scumbag you are. Anyone over the age of legal responsibility should be made to do this.

Yeah, same. If there's anything in my yard or the street in front of my house I pick it up.

I shit you not, a friend of my mum once did that to a bloke parked at traffic lights, while she was waiting on her bike. Only it wasn't ciggie litter he'd dropped out of his window, it was his leftover curry and chips. She promptly scooped it up and posted it back through his window, saying, "Scuse me, you dropped your chips, Sir!" in a cheery voice. The lights then changed and he had no choice but to drive off with a lap full of c and c. 😅

Ashamed to say I think I may have left wkd bottles on the beach as a teenager underage drinking. Since then, honestly never littered as an adult. Always find a bin or shove rubbish in my handbag to throw away later.

The worst kind of litter has to be dog poo tied up in bags and hung on bushes, sometimes at eye level 🤢 never understood it.

We live in mainland Europe now and it's the first thing I notice when returning to the UK. So much litter everywhere. Bottles of pee at the side of every dual carriageway, fast food wrappers everywhere, crisp packets, sandwich packets, plastic and glass bottles, cans. It's much worse than other countries.

I hate littering and always have done.

when I was younger had a horrible boyfriend who threw his ashtray out of car on road and I was disgusted. Horrible habit

I have been.known to toss an apple core/ banana skin/ orange peel into a thick hedge where no one will see it.

But if the bin is full you take the litter home with you, or carry it to the next bin.

I walk in a huge and beautiful open space and I can’t tell you how many times I come across an abandoned pile of picnic rubbish, food packets, drinks containers etc, usually accompanied by a plastic carrier beg, often quite a distance from the road and I think “ Surely if you managed to carry it here when it was a full and heavy carrier bag you could manage to carry it away with you now it’s only holding empty containers.” They don’t even bother to put the stuff back into the carrier to make it easier for the poor sod who is eventually going to clean it up. Mindless, littering, antisocial idiots.

And please don’t mention the al fresco bbq enthusiasts. Never heard of grassfires,nope, never.

Never!! It makes me sad and mad in equal measure.

I agree with you re litter, I was just carrying on from one of my earlier posts about council cuts.

There are now many rubbish-laden areas that can't realistically be cleared - dual carriageways and trees being two of them. Some selfish moron chucks it (or sometimes, rubbish from bin collections gets blown around on windy days) and then the rubbish will be there for a long, long time. I hate it.

I don't think you'll get many people coming on and saying yes, I'm a dirty selfish pig.

Litter is everywhere and it's clear a lot of people do it.

I live in a tourist hot-spot and the amount of litter they chuck everywhere is appalling. Disposable bbqs despite signs everywhere saying not to use them, empty sandwich packs, crisp pockets, chocolate wrappers, cans. Even dirty nappies. It's just disgusting.

Who goes to a lovely place for a nice walk and leaves all their figurative AND literal shit behind?

A few times a year some of the locals take to the fields and hills and fill up bin liners and put photos of them on the community fb page. When you see all these bin liners piled up you realise the scale of the problem.

There's a reason brits have a bad reputation in many other countries. Too many selfish dirty pissheads.

Few years back I was in a car park in town and watched a bloke open his car door, place his rubbish on the floor then close hus door and drive off.

PAST A BIN!!! The car park had bins.

He could have driven up to one of the bins and put his rubbish in it.

I wanted to drive after him and ask him why the fuck he did that but my husband, quite rightly I suppose, said that was a stupid idea.

I will never understand what goes in in the, well, brains I suppose, for want of a better word, of these people.

They just don't give a shit.

I bet they're the first to complain if they go somewhere nice and it's knee deep in other people's rubbish.

Oh yeah and the well there wasn't a bin wah wah.

You're going home eventually. Carry your fucking shit until you get there and put it in your fucking bin.

Never deliberately. There has been a few occasions when I've posted something into one of those bins with the slot opening and a gust of wind has whipped it out of my hand and blown it away.

Wtf! That's absolutely awful ☹️

Oh God, NEVER. Litter louts are my biggest bugbear in this life. I would have them all publicly flogged because I hate them so, so much.

Yes and no. Before I switched from smoking to vaping I'd drop fag butt's, as a teenager I would litter and obviously there's the odd occasion when the wind has blown something away so iv unintentionally littered. As an adult I drum this into my kids and never litter anymore.

Never. Was brought up not to do it, as most of my generation. What kind of idle and thick scumbag parents DON'T teach their kids about this?

You have probably seen bottles of urine chucked everywhere. Drivers’ tizer, the Wombles call it.

The problem is that delivery/lorry drivers have a crap infrastructure for truck stops. Secondly, drivers are refused access to toilets at companies that they deliver. Companies stopped allowing drivers to use their toilets due to Covid. Five years on, still companies still refuse to let drivers use toilets. Why? If you work at a place where get loads of deliveries, please let them use the toilets!