Picking up other people's rubbish and ignorance

Shaboro1986

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Drove to Redcar, on the way, seen 2 cars throw rubbish ie paper cups and bags out of the window. Get to Redcar, sat on steps facing the sea and you see people leaving their chip boxes on the seats. Do they think that they just magical grow legs and walk to the bins. Also these people who park on the down ramps to the sea where the life boats go are just stupid. There's big signs even saying don't park there.
 
I hope you made a note of the registration and reported it.
Got to say it's a pet hate of mine, stopping at junctions and busy intersections and you can see the rubbish that has been thrown out to the side of the roads where it collects. Where this is a real issue cameras could be located. Points on licence of vehicle owner, along with fines and public cleaning up duties for those caught.
More street wardens and bobbies on the beat. I know Stockton B.C are going to be targeting anti-social behaviour in certain areas and landlords will have to contribute and help cover for these wardens. Increase taxes on take-away food, packaging.
It's a culture that has been allowed to flourish and it is that which has to change, starts at home and school.
However words are not enough without those things in place otherwise nothing will change.
 
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Drove to Redcar, on the way, seen 2 cars throw rubbish ie paper cups and bags out of the window. Get to Redcar, sat on steps facing the sea and you see people leaving their chip boxes on the seats. Do they think that they just magical grow legs and walk to the bins. Also these people who park on the down ramps to the sea where the life boats go are just stupid. There's big signs even saying don't park there.

Get a few lads to bounce the cars down the ramp 👍
 
It's just, people have no respect, we need to start being stricter, this starts at home.
Schools aswell are way to soft.
Things are way to much the other way, obviously these people need some good old fashion discipline
 
Have spent a couple of hours this afternoon litter picking on an embankment. Bottles, cans, McDonalds cups, bags, lobbed out of car windows into undergrowth and down the bank. Not easy to grab in brambles.
At the bottom of the embankment lots of sweet and crisp wrappers, ensconced in deep undergrowth.
We filled FOUR big bin bags.
This is in Billingham where pickers have over collected over 700 bags so far this month.
It is making a difference - plenty of car horns of support rather than abuse.
 
I once gave a group of teenage girls the soft drinks cans back to them that they had thrown away near darlo station- the looks on their faces were priceless.
As I walked away I heard them calling me a knobhead.
My wife often picks up other peoples dogs mess when walking our dog. If I could catch the person who lets his/her dog crap on our street then leave it I really think I am likely to lose my my temper with such a selfish, ignorant person
 
Once saw two women who lived at the end of our road (they were 'rough pelts') at a garage just off the estate. They had a couple of coffees in paper cups from the garage. On finishing the drinks they chucked the cups on the ground and drove off. There was a bin literally 4 or 5 paces from them. Inexplicable.:mad:
 
I find a lot of rubbish dumped literally within feet of bins. So, the person almost put it in - but not quite. If only that bin had legs and could walk those last couple of yards and make it easier to find.
 
A definite rise is dog sh*t not get cleared up. I'm not sure why? New dogs for Xmas or rise in dog owners or walks during lockdown.

The one bonus is its lighter at night when I go for a run. I've stood in it 3 times in a week running in the dark.

If the owner can't be arsed picking it up then at least stick a birthday candle in it so I can see it in the dark😂
 
A definite rise is dog sh*t not get cleared up. I'm not sure why? New dogs for Xmas or rise in dog owners or walks during lockdown.

The one bonus is its lighter at night when I go for a run. I've stood in it 3 times in a week running in the dark.

If the owner can't be arsed picking it up then at least stick a birthday candle in it so I can see it in the dark😂
I prefer people not to pick the dog poo up instead of the ones that pick it up in a bag and then throw it in a hedge. It boils my **** seeing all the bags of poo everywhere I put one in a bin for someone yesterday that had just left it on a playing field 10 yards away from a bin.
 
I saw on Look North this afternoon the state left near Keswick by Rough Campers. Tents, chairs ,food waste etc.

What a disgrace
 
I saw on Look North this afternoon the state left near Keswick by Rough Campers. Tents, chairs ,food waste etc.

What a disgrace
It is a disgrace, fines and punishments need to increase.
The courts should get offenders for other crimes out litter picking on what I remember as community service if they not going to prison .
Schools should get pupils involved in keeping communities tidy as the difference in rubbish is unbelievable when kids are at school.
We do litter picking with Billingham tidy group and the amount of discarded red bull, monster energy drink cans is unreal.
Quite worrying aswell, kids get charged up on these awful drinks before school.
 
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McDonalds drive-throughs are a big problem. Or more accurately the many mouth breathing knuckle draggers that they attract. I go to Skelton every day and since they opened a drive-through the verges and lay-bys nearby are full of brown paper bags, coffee cups etc. Is the problem mentality or arrogance based?
 
McDonalds drive-throughs are a big problem. Or more accurately the many mouth breathing knuckle draggers that they attract. I go to Skelton every day and since they opened a drive-through the verges and lay-bys nearby are full of brown paper bags, coffee cups etc. Is the problem mentality or arrogance based?
Weren't McDonalds going to start printing the car registrations on the bags so that they drivers could be fined for littering?
 
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