to feel depressed at the amount of litter I've been seeing

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Don't wish to sound like a grumpy old bag (although am aware I am), but I've driven round the M25 this weekend and virtually the whole way round, the verges and embankments were festooned with rubbish. Loads of greying wisps of plastic, food containers, cans, you name it.
Who should I be aiming my fury at? The people who dump it, or the councils who fail to clean it up?
Or should I just get a life?

the people who dump it.
It really grieves me too

YANBU.

YANBU I thought exactly the same today ...was at the local park ..little pond there was full of rubbish with 2 little ducks swimming around ..made me

yanbu, at our local park secondary school children come and eat their dixy chicken whatever and just throw the cartons everywhere. theres a bin at the side of the bench they sit on.makes me FUME!

This is a real bug bear of mine. I've noticed it recently more and more around the streets where I live. No one seems to put their rubbish in the bin any more. There doesn't seem to be any grasp of how it affects your community. It makes me

YANBU by the way!

My Husband goes around picking it up. We like in a rural location, and he hates seing litter, especially along the road leading to our house. He's been known to take a bin liner out when walking the dog early in the morning and he brags that he's managed to gather half a bin linner of rubbish.

We like ?? I mean we live.

mummy I am glad I am not the only one who does that

I think my brain is on predicted text sometimes. I'm glad I'm not alone.

mummyloveslucy - I do as well when I see it down our lane.

I once went on a road trip into the Atacama desert (Northern Chile) and the amount of litter by the road was truely appaling. It never rots away in a desert. It just blows around for ever until the sand and wind shreds it into tiny pieces.

He once saw a young lad dropping litter and told him to pick it up. (I could've died) but the boy did pick it up though.

I pick up litter in the street and get my kids to as well

YANBU - we were going into my DD2 ballet class last week and the wee girl in front of us said - O Dad I've got to get rid of my chewing gum - slipped past me out the door and spat it out on the pavement !!!! I was so shocked - I said Excuse me to the dad (bit brave for me !) - your daughter has just done X , and he shrugged , mumbled to her that she shouldn't really do that and said he would get it on the way out !! Did he hell - I put it in the bin !!!

can you tell its a bugbear of mine too !

YANBU, this is a pet peeve of mine, too

I pick it up myself, or if i've seen the perpetrator (mostly kids round her), will ask them to pick it up, so good on ya mumloveslucy. Mostly this works, but I did get a mouthful of abuse from some teenage girls once, which put me off a bit.

I have also noticed, though that round this particular neck of the woods (London) there are very few bins. I am beginning to suspect that the council has removed some to dissuade fly-tipping. There are regular street cleaning patrols, but they can't keep up. I am wondering if people are getting the totally wrong message that it is somebody else's responsibility to pick up their litter.

I do think that if their were more bins then at least some of the kids would put their litter in them.

Terrible spelling!

But whose responsibility is it to clear the embankments and verges of the motorways? And how does it all get there? Do people chuck carrier bags out of the windows at high speed? It'd be a little tricky to flag them down and make them pick it up.
Would chain gangs of community service people not be able to have a go? Or cub-scouts? But SOMEONE! It's a terrible blight on our countryside.