Littering - What is it about bottles/cans/coffee cups
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Borobarmy
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Jesus our fabulous one thing we cherish and they still see it as a ‘ somebody else concern ‘ . It’s heartbreaking
S7DiscoDown
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Just look at any car park outside or near a McDonald's or KFC etc. You can literally see brown bags of rubbish between car parking bays where people have eaten a meal (often as a family) and just opened the door and dropped the rubbish on the floor.
This is usually done with in 10-20yds of a bin. If you park outside a Mcdonalds you will have bins within walking distance away. Just absolute laziness of the highest order
Just as bad are people who have fast food in the restaurant (again usually Mcdonalds and it's varied cliontel) who eat a meal and leave the table a sh*t tip and don't bin the empties (again bins 5ft away) or leave food scattered everywhere. I've seen families of 4-5 just stand up and walk off.... Great example to the kids.
Also another thing that's been annoying me isn't rubbish but still fecking lazyness. It's when you drive into a supermarket car park and the growing amounts of empty trollies abandoned In parking bays. I just sit and watch people (more often than not women) unload shopping and just jump in a posh SUV or 4X4 and drive off leaving empty trolly in a parking bay. A trolly 'park' is never more than 30secs walkaway
I simply can't stand lazyness. It's not hard to do these things rather than leave it for some fecker else to sort out.
This is usually done with in 10-20yds of a bin. If you park outside a Mcdonalds you will have bins within walking distance away. Just absolute laziness of the highest order
Just as bad are people who have fast food in the restaurant (again usually Mcdonalds and it's varied cliontel) who eat a meal and leave the table a sh*t tip and don't bin the empties (again bins 5ft away) or leave food scattered everywhere. I've seen families of 4-5 just stand up and walk off.... Great example to the kids.
Also another thing that's been annoying me isn't rubbish but still fecking lazyness. It's when you drive into a supermarket car park and the growing amounts of empty trollies abandoned In parking bays. I just sit and watch people (more often than not women) unload shopping and just jump in a posh SUV or 4X4 and drive off leaving empty trolly in a parking bay. A trolly 'park' is never more than 30secs walkaway
I simply can't stand lazyness. It's not hard to do these things rather than leave it for some fecker else to sort out.
r00fie1
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There are a number of ways of tackling the issue(s):
i. Producer pays - the massive dependency on non-renewable resource, like plastic bottles and containers, needs to be overcome by taxing the companies AT SOURCE - plastics are not only polluting our land, but are already in the food chain.
ii. Alternative bio-degradable renewable materials such as wood [for paper / pulp / cardboard], sugar cane [used to manufacture drinking bottles] and bamboo [used to manufacture socks and cups]. Carrier bags, shrink wrap and cups do not need to be made of oil-based products. There are proven viable, sustainable alternative materials.
iii. Encourage recycling - pay 1p for every used aluminium and steel drinks can at dedicated recycling centres. There would suddenly be a huge voluntary clean - up of railway rally banks, bins and communal areas! Its a project carried out in Germany. Small financial reward for long term gain and sustainability.
iv. To discourage plastics in the food industry - tax the companies by weight and volume. Apples in supermarkets dont need to be covered in plastic [for instance]. Bread remains fresh in grease-proof paper bags, as does fish and meat. We dont need to pack sausages, samosas or our crusty loaf in plastic.
v. Fast food outlets need to pay a much higher tax on the volume of plastic and packaging to reduce its use - highlighted by the poster earlier.
i. Producer pays - the massive dependency on non-renewable resource, like plastic bottles and containers, needs to be overcome by taxing the companies AT SOURCE - plastics are not only polluting our land, but are already in the food chain.
ii. Alternative bio-degradable renewable materials such as wood [for paper / pulp / cardboard], sugar cane [used to manufacture drinking bottles] and bamboo [used to manufacture socks and cups]. Carrier bags, shrink wrap and cups do not need to be made of oil-based products. There are proven viable, sustainable alternative materials.
iii. Encourage recycling - pay 1p for every used aluminium and steel drinks can at dedicated recycling centres. There would suddenly be a huge voluntary clean - up of railway rally banks, bins and communal areas! Its a project carried out in Germany. Small financial reward for long term gain and sustainability.
iv. To discourage plastics in the food industry - tax the companies by weight and volume. Apples in supermarkets dont need to be covered in plastic [for instance]. Bread remains fresh in grease-proof paper bags, as does fish and meat. We dont need to pack sausages, samosas or our crusty loaf in plastic.
v. Fast food outlets need to pay a much higher tax on the volume of plastic and packaging to reduce its use - highlighted by the poster earlier.
Caesium137
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I also hate the Stockon-on-Tees recycling set-up. In Lincolnshire I had three wheelie bins, all re-cycling in one, waste another and garden/veg peelings etc. in the final one. Where I live on recycling Friday if there is the slightest gust of wind my street is inundated with empty 4-pint milk containers, polystyrene, old newspapers and plastic wrappers galore. It's infuriating.
Colgates_shaving_foam
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The recycling bags/boxes are an absolute joke, like you say, I'd be surprised if on a windy day more than 50% of the recycling makes into the bin wagon.
Then what you see is people picking up the loose plastic and putting it in the general bin which gets picked up an hour or so later.
Ingleby_Flash
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Face masks seem to be the current litter trend.
indeedido
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All have some merit Roofie, but changing consumer behaviours, expectations and demands is very much key.
Retailers and Suppliers respond to consumer and what they will accept.
Far more plastic could be reused in FMCG if people were not accustomed to everything looking faultless and pristine.
There is an irony that lots of those who won’t recycle and will litter freely will be people who will demand pristine packaging and lots and lots of it.
Littering disgusts me.
So does waste.
But so does our ludicrous insistence on packaging everything in inappropriate material to within an inch of its life.
agreed - image below is not my own, but I have had a micro SD card delivered in a similar fashion, along with all the void filler that goes inside the box. totally stupid, a single C6/C5 jiffy bag would have been perfectly adequate
homesickblues
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I agree that is a mess, cycling around south Cleveland and North Yorkshire I see plenty of rubbish from lots of sources. Fly tipping in verges, empty bottles thrown from cars and takeaway packaging miles away from the shops.
Takeaways should not be served in any packaging, people should be made to bring their own suitable reuse able containers.
Takeaways should not be served in any packaging, people should be made to bring their own suitable reuse able containers.