Author Topic: Litter rant (Read 3060 times)

Bionic · « **on:** October 08, 2016, 09:50:21 am »

I live on a single track lane with little traffic and very few people on foot. it's usually just me and the dog and the very occasional walker.

We aren't near shops, a pub or a main road.

This morning I noticed 2 cider cans, a crisp packet and a water bottle, all discarded in the hedge.

What makes people feel they have the right to spoil our lovely countryside like this? It makes me even madder to think that this must have been done by walkers who should know better.

HappyHippy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2016, 12:13:53 pm »

I hate it too - we have lots of places near us that are favourites with fly tippers as well as folk who throw rubbish out of cars.
We've started some community litter picks and posting the info on our village facebook page - hopefully it will shame some of the offenders into changing their behaviour and there's always a chance we'll find some incriminating evidence to allow the local authority to fine them

Complete laziness and there's no need for it

harmony · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2016, 01:53:19 pm »

I'm sorry to say it probably wasn't walkers. It was probably a couple of youths in a car sometime during the night.

Bionic · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2016, 02:15:34 pm »

Quote from: harmony on October 08, 2016, 01:53:19 pm

I'm sorry to say it probably wasn't walkers. It was probably a couple of youths in a car sometime during the night.

Harmony, I doubt that. We just don't get that sort of traffic through here but I would rather think if was youths than someone who is supposed to care for the countryside.

harmony · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2016, 02:43:55 pm »

Quote from: Bionic on October 08, 2016, 02:15:34 pm

Quote from: harmony on October 08, 2016, 01:53:19 pm
I'm sorry to say it probably wasn't walkers. It was probably a couple of youths in a car sometime during the night.

Harmony, I doubt that. We just don't get that sort of traffic through here but I would rather think if was youths than someone who is supposed to care for the countryside.

They don't need to be driving through, just parking up, having a couple of drinks, whatever else, litter out of window and off they go. We live up a dead end and find stuff tossed in the roadside too.

Who goes for walk and takes alcohol? Not many ramblers I doubt.

Penninehillbilly · « **Reply #5 on:** October 08, 2016, 02:55:35 pm »

We have a couple of village clean up days, + out on nearby roads and footpaths, i can almost guarantee there will be litter within a couple of days, some people do it as a sort of 'snub' to the volunteers who care.

Celli · « **Reply #6 on:** October 09, 2016, 09:35:44 am »

We get all manner of rubbish coming down our burn, crisp packets, juice cans, news papers , glass bottles smashed when they are thrown out of the car.
The worst one though has to be the family who stopped their car outside my house to disgorge all the rubbish and fag ends from their road trip, unluckily for them I spotted them chucking everything out and gave them a right mouthful, after threatening to report them for littering they picked it all up again.

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #7 on:** October 09, 2016, 10:05:10 pm »

Good for you, Celli.

waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #8 on:** October 09, 2016, 10:26:51 pm »

[member=8989]Bionic[/member] its always the same here am afraid, except we can get whole Mcdonalds bags and sometimes burger king stuff, believe me I really don't know why seeing we are up on a hill a mile or 2 away from the nearest village. It does anger me, but then I console myself with the fact that I am recycling what they didn't so I am helping the environment; not much to console one-self about though, is it? As long as we pick up litter from our lanes then it benefits the environment, but as for the people littering, all I can say is shame on them. Unless you have cctv you won't be able to catch them