FabSwingers.com forum: Litter is it a problem where you live

By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

With council cuts deepening and street cleansing often hit the hardest, have you noticed an increase in litter on your streets.

We have just been for a drive round Rivingtion a very nice area and the amount of Litter that as been thrown from cars is unreel McDonald's, KFC, crap all along the grass verges.

I don't blame the council, I blame the filthy pigs that can't be bothered to use a litter bin or take it home.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No its lovely where I live.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My area is a shit tip, litter everywhere

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sadly yes, lazy ass people that can't be bothered to find a bin or take it home.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does anyone pick litter up in their local area?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No its lovely where I live."

+ 1. I think the council make an extra effort to keep the tourists coming

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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

"Does anyone pick litter up in their local area?"

Yes we do if it is in our street.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No its lovely where I live.

+ 1. I think the council make an extra effort to keep the tourists coming

Maybe but even on the high street on Market day there's no rubbish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its terrible where i live, i live next door to a chip shop and everyone who comes out uses my front garden as the bin

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

It's not bad round here at all. Dover is definitely worse but they've got so many take aways in the town it's hardly surprising. I often see the guy doing the litter collection doing his rounds when I pick up my lad from nursery. X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its not bad where i live but i have worked all over the country and noticed its different else where seems worse in london especially at weekends.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes. I live two doors up from an off licence and there is a chippy at the end of the block.

Stuff always being thrown over the wall, left on the doorstep and just dropped and left in the street.

Weekend mornings can be like walking out into the local tip.

No bins now. There used to be two but think the council got fed up of replacing them after they'd been set on fire.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope, not at all

I live in a snake market town but there's hardly a problem.

Some litter from fast food places but not bad.

We have an organised Spring Clean each year, but never seen to collect that much

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

it is in the summer holidays when you get day trippers and holiday makers dropping bags of rubbish in the forest which is worrying because of the wildlife and new forest ponies.

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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

"it is in the summer holidays when you get day trippers and holiday makers dropping bags of rubbish in the forest which is worrying because of the wildlife and new forest ponies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm lucky its nice and clean here apart some dog poop Grr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live deep in the country and the litter is horrendous

Drivers think nothing of throwing there car rubbish out of the window

The worse culprits are the contractors. Silage cutting time and the roads are littered with cans, bottles and food wrappers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes. I live two doors up from an off licence and there is a chippy at the end of the block.

Stuff always being thrown over the wall, left on the doorstep and just dropped and left in the street.

Weekend mornings can be like walking out into the local tip.

No bins now. There used to be two but think the council got fed up of replacing them after they'd been set on fire."
Yes you certainly see the

Dark side of people typical example of

What you have just mentioned here happens elsewhere in the country

We used to have a telephone box

Just around the corner of the street

And it did not matter how many times

The phone and box were repaired be it

Months or longer It was vandalised

At the tax payers cost eventually

It was taken away and never replaced

At a loss to the general public not

Long After they put some plant troughs

Down and a new seat they attacked the

Seat for a while occasionally a plant

Or two will be pulled up and thrown on

The floor or a beer can or bottle Pushed

In alongside the plants preferable that

To haveing the plants themselves pulled

out along with other discarded stuff

I suppose when this generation of litter

Louts grow up which i don,t think is the right word their kids will be most likely the next generation of litter

Louts, there can be at times a small

Divideing line between them and vandals

so both types and groups are never far

Away but again the word respect means

Little to them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I live deep in the country and the litter is horrendous

Drivers think nothing of throwing there car rubbish out of the window

The worse culprits are the contractors. Silage cutting time and the roads are littered with cans, bottles and food wrappers I think this is a good post

Because it highlights this problem Mind

One that folks already know about lol

It all comes down to how folks are Brought up from kids and how to respect

Things Another thing that upsets me is

Is when i see broken glass on the floor

where a d*unken yob has smashed it and All the possible dangers associated with it.

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

Oddly enough, I think Hackney has been cleaner than it's ever been... MIGHT have something to do with the hordes of Bohemian/Hippy types that seem to have moved into the area though... We seem to have more people who are more aware and considerate of their surroundings, which is nice.

- Amy. x

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

Cleaner than other areas that I would expect to be cleaner, should I say...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cleaner than other areas that I would expect to be cleaner, should I say... "
Long may it remain for

yer...

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Yes, it can be, bain of my life sometimes.....

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

no its realy clean where I live an we have a litter picker man,council come roun as soon as the markets finished an clean up too

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

Its not too bad where i live and council do a good job, it does annoy me though when i go walking, running or mountain biking on Cannock chase (a protected area of outstanding natural beauty) and you see litter left behind from visitors....lazy fuckwits!

Police should crackdown harder on people who drop litter in the street, give them on the spot fines i say. Also why don't they get more offenders on community service picking litter in areas where the problem is very bad? Can't actually remember the last time i saw any supervised community service litter pickers?

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"Its not too bad where i live and council do a good job, it does annoy me though when i go walking, running or mountain biking on Cannock chase (a protected area of outstanding natural beauty) and you see litter left behind from visitors....lazy fuckwits!

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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

"I live deep in the country and the litter is horrendous

Drivers think nothing of throwing there car rubbish out of the window

The worse culprits are the contractors. Silage cutting time and the roads are littered with cans, bottles and food wrappers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does anyone pick litter up in their local area?

Yes we do if it is in our street.

Good on you. If everyone did the same, the problem would be solved - and the cleaner a location is, the less likely it is to be littered.

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