To ask if anyone will admit to littering?

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I am genuinely intrigued to see if anyone will admit to littering, on purpose. I was walking through the woods earlier and there was a starbucks cup and a few can discarded along my route. I am sure that occasionally people drop things by accident but undoubtedly some of it is intentional. I genuinely can't imagine chucking my rubbish on the floor so if anyone will admit to it, why do you do it?

Take your litter home with you. What's wrong with you, as thats truly shocking

Not me, I cannot stand littering. Throw your rubbish in a bin or take it home! It’s not hard

No, I hate litter. I always assumed that any litter would be young teens or drunks, from this thread it seeems anyone could be the culprit. If my kids even drop a tissue then I make then pick it up.
The only thing I do litter is apple cores or bananas if I am in woodland, throw into a bush as it will compost and is a natural product.
I once was on holiday about 8 years ago and I was a bit drunk and left an empty plastic water bottle in the car park by the beach and I still think about it now..

My mum drummed it into to take our rubbish home with us if there are no bins and I have done the same with my dc. Littering is selfish and disgusting and there is no excuse for it.

Yes it's crazy isn't it?

What they did here last summer was create what they called "toy libraries". They were a couple of open boxes placed near the car parking facilities at 2 points of the beach front. And they put all the toys discarded on the beach in them. And there were notices telling people they could make use of the toys and asking them to return them before they went home. I don't know how well used the "toy libraries" were but I know one of them got vandalised, which was very sickening.

And since when do birds make houses out of pizza boxes?! Seriously, fuck off.

Take it home, so lazy.

I think this is the crux of the problem, people feel entitled to leave it if there isn't a bin.

I don't drop litter and am continuously shocked by people who do. I've even confronted people leaving piles of litter on a beach and in a park before and been told that it's someone's job to pick it up.

It could easily take years for those cardboard boxes to decompose. The more likely outcome for them is they were picked up by another park user or by the park staff. Honestly it’s shocking how lazy you were that you didn’t bother cleaning up after yourself and used this ridiculous justification.

Yes! No 2! I was in McDonald’s car park years ago with my kids, sat eating our food. I got out to put our rubbish in the bin and as I was doing so the man in the car next to the bin just rolled down his window and threw his litter out the window. What the fuck is wrong with these selfish lazy dirty bastards. Of course you can’t say anything or you’d get a mouthful of abuse.

are you saying that you’d put non-indigenous vegetable or fruit waste into landfill?

The poo bags are the worst.

I put it into food recycling

There is apparently going to be an 'Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging' policy implemented in the UK this year - to make companies financially responsible for the packaging waste they generate. Don't know how it will work. Also the dog shit tax thing has been implemented in some countries already. But clearly we are going wrong somewhere in our environment education if Mumsnet posters are littering and thinking pizza boxes decompose in six months!

For those saying they dont have enough bin space, maybe buy less crap? We are a family of 7, with 2 dogs and 2 cats and we can manage our waste.

I somehow doubt it.

I asked someone if they were going to pick their litter up once and their response was I pay council tax so they can do it.

Another 80s child who was firmly conditioned not to throw litter, even the thought of it makes me weirdly uncomfortable! We need another Keep Britain Tidy campaign, though I don't know how well it would work now we're not all forced to watch the same adverts. Though I think it was drummed into me at school so maybe they should try that again? It worked very well - everyone I know of my age is equally horrified by the notion of littering, and it did certainly use to be a lot tidier. I think we also knew more / cared more about wildlife.

Regretfully we live in deep countryside, have assumed ‘food recycling’ was actually making meals with food approaching SBD?
how does ‘food recycle’ deal with stuff like avocado skins if not by composting?

@OtherS oh so there was a Keep Britain Tidy campaign? I grew up in NZ and we had "Be a tidy kiwi". I was taught never to litter. It's much worse here so I wondered if it was the lack of a campaign but sounds like not! Where I live where was a "Don't be a tosser" campaign last year which is awesome but it didn't seem to carry on.

Went to Montenegro on holiday this summer and was shocked at the amount of litter everywhere. Absolutely disgusting. I asked a local about it and he claimed it was all the tourists. Certainly seems like people in some countries care more than others.

At the weekend I was in the car, waiting for my daughters to finish gymnastics at the leisure centre. A football dad was parked next to me and as he walked up over the field he spat his gum out on the ground. (why do football dads always chew gum like flipping teenagers?) I said to him 'did you just flob your gum?' , he gave me the filthiest look for challenging him and said 'yeah'.

I asked him to pick it up, three times saying how revolting it is, that a child will likely step on it etc he ignored me the first two, and then he looked at me in the way that only a man can look at a woman challenging him and picked up the gum and instead of wrapping it to throw in the bin, he threw it further into the field. All because he got caught out. Revolting.

I felt sorry for the two boys he was with.

This is exactly me- 30 years ago I happily dropped fag butts wherever I went. I didn’t even see it as littering really- just a natural consequence of my having passed through a place, like shedding a few hairs or skin cells.

These days I take other people’s litter home with me. A reformed character 😇

I might throw an apple core in the bushes but something like a soda can? No I just could not do that in a million years.

Yeah, it was huge. Definitely in the 80s, not sure when it started or ended. I think that's when the man throwing rubbish into the bin logo was introduced. I'm sure I remember having it drilled into us at primary school, as well as loads of adverts and posters. The country was definitely significantly tidier a decade or two ago, I think the same's true across Europe. Everywhere seems rather dirty now :( I've not been to NZ but I do remember thinking Sydney was wonderfully clean a few years ago, they maybe had an Aussie version!

About 25 years ago I was eating a satsuma on the Tube. The floor was littered with rubbish and I put the peel down to join it. I got a huge roasting from some sanctimonious git sitting opposite me, which I felt was a bit unfair considering the state of the carriage, but it had an effect and I have never done it (or dropped any other litter) since.

Ronnie Corbett had too much class to call people who litter utter cunts.