A genuine question...

eandjsmum

Thanks for the offers We have had our accomodation booked pre lockdown love Dorset and would never never leave litter. Kent has been just as bad for the litter and worse, which is a terrible shame for all those that live here. I agree with Greyqueen  when she says it is down to upbringing it is. Mine are grown up now but wouldnt litter and have commented when someone has, trouble is you dont know when to say something when you witness it. Also when I have spoken out I have been abused for saying so. One of the other problems is these antisocial louts have no ownership, they dont live in the vicinity,dont pay council tax and so see it as not their problem. How would they like it if we found out where they lived, drove up inconsideratly parked outside their property, dumped tons of litter in their front gardens, used their property as a toilet and left. Being let out after lockdown has nothing to do with this we had this problem last year when a large coach party came to Margate last year and treated the beach as a public dustbin. Local towns here have implemented litter wardens who have the power to fine people dropping litter and local news is someone complaining that they have been stopped and fined for dropping a cigarette butt. USE THE BINS they are provided for that purpose . Perhaps these people are filthy at home.

eandjsmum

PS in Japan there are no bins it is assumed that you take your rubbish home and Japanese people do.

Brambling

We need to teach our little ones starting at preschool, there's nothing quite so condemning as a lecture from a four year old about not dropping litter and they don't usually mind who they give it to. I remember the Keep Britain Tidy campaign of the 70s as well 🙂

Sayschezza

Last year my 22yo GS took it upon himself to litter pick around his area. Bought his own pick up stick and armed with a black bag did it every day after work. He was stopped by an older lady one day and was asked why he was bothering because it would still be as bad the next day. He replied 'yes and I will be back tomorrow as well' she walked off shaking her head. It's not always the young ones is it.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

monnagran said:

I think that the matter of litter and social responsibility has been neglected for too long.  There needs to be an intensive campaign put into place pronto.  The 'KEEP BRITAIN TIDY'  slogan should be thrust down people's throats until they gag.  A stern warning about the dropping of litter should be included in every commercial break on television, plastered on the sides of public vehicles, stuck up on hoardings everywhere, school children have it hammered home until everyone emerges from 12 years of education thoroughly brainwashed AND THEN there should be swingeing penalties for any transgression.
If I ruled the world.
The army should be brought in if necessary to aid our beleaguered police force and people found to be behaving in an anti-social way should be put into the stocks and be pelted with their own disgusting filth by outraged townsfolk.
Well, maybe that's a tad too far, but only just.

Must go and wipe the foam from my mouth.

I’d vote for you monnagran 👏

mrs_motivated

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

monnagran said:

I think that the matter of litter and social responsibility has been neglected for too long.  There needs to be an intensive campaign put into place pronto.  The 'KEEP BRITAIN TIDY'  slogan should be thrust down people's throats until they gag.  A stern warning about the dropping of litter should be included in every commercial break on television, plastered on the sides of public vehicles, stuck up on hoardings everywhere, school children have it hammered home until everyone emerges from 12 years of education thoroughly brainwashed AND THEN there should be swingeing penalties for any transgression.
If I ruled the world.
The army should be brought in if necessary to aid our beleaguered police force and people found to be behaving in an anti-social way should be put into the stocks and be pelted with their own disgusting filth by outraged townsfolk.
Well, maybe that's a tad too far, but only just.

Must go and wipe the foam from my mouth.

I’d vote for you monnagran 👏

Another vote for Monnagran, It makes my blood boil disgusting, selfish morons littering beaches, parks, beauty spots, towns and villages they are everywhere and it’s time for serious consequences for their actions because clearly they are not capable of grasping what they are doing is wrong.

annieb64

Me too. We are trying to go zero waste so if we do go on picnics we tend to take sandwiches in a box and drinks in reusable bottles.If we do have any rubbish we put it in one of the boxes to bring home.

PipneyJane

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

monnagran said:

I think that the matter of litter and social responsibility has been neglected for too long.  There needs to be an intensive campaign put into place pronto.  The 'KEEP BRITAIN TIDY'  slogan should be thrust down people's throats until they gag.  A stern warning about the dropping of litter should be included in every commercial break on television, plastered on the sides of public vehicles, stuck up on hoardings everywhere, school children have it hammered home until everyone emerges from 12 years of education thoroughly brainwashed AND THEN there should be swingeing penalties for any transgression.
If I ruled the world.
The army should be brought in if necessary to aid our beleaguered police force and people found to be behaving in an anti-social way should be put into the stocks and be pelted with their own disgusting filth by outraged townsfolk.
Well, maybe that's a tad too far, but only just.

Must go and wipe the foam from my mouth.

I’d vote for you monnagran 👏

Me too.

Can i add a grumble about the lack of decent public toilets.  Somewhere on the Internet is a rant about this - it might be from the Guardian - and I totally agree.   The ones that do exist are either broken or filthy.  Have some pride, Britain!

As an Australian child of the 1970’s, I was brought up watching a “Keep Australia Beautiful” television campaign that featured rubbish blowing around a beauty spot, with a voice-over by a child.  The child was quoting a verse of a poem by Dorothea Mackellar:-

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea.
Her beauty and her terror,
The wide brown land for me.”

Absolutely ruined that poem for me for years.  I was an adult before I read the rest of it.  Cured me of ever wanting to litter, though.

- Pip

YORKSHIRELASS

We live on the edge of a National Park and the increase in litter over the last few years is really beyond belief.  There has also been a big increase in people visiting the area to picnic/BBQ/paddle in rivers near wherever they can park their cars, and they have zero respect for the area or the environment.  They don't add much to the local economy either because they are generally day trippers who bring their food and drink with them.  It appalls me and I expect a lot of these people were shocked at the whole plastic in the ocean thing, but somehow they dont see themselves as causing a similar problem.

I dont think the whole throwaway culture helps either, or the cost of some tents/picnic blankets/beach chairs.  Yes we need to educate children, but how do you make adults see that what they are doing is disgusting and irresponsible?

GreyQueen

What amazes me is that people who are very proud of their appearance are littlebugs. It's as if the very second they have finished using something, it has to be detached from their person. I stood on a traffic island on a main street one day, watching an immaculately-groomed young woman. She loosened her fingers and dropped her half-smoked ciggie as she stepped out to cross the road. If you'd accused her of going out without having cleaned her teeth or brushed her hair, I'm sure she would have been scandalised to be thought so skanky, but she had demonstrably dirty public behavioural habits.

Full disclosure; I also have one of my own litter grabber thingies and am not afraid to use it.