Littering
A new campaign is being started to stop the amount of litter, getting on the streets.
I think some of the problems are down to the way we are designed.
One of the reasons we create so much litter, is we only have two hands. I’ve just watched a mother pushing a buggy down the street to take her child to school, whilst she was smoking with one hand and texting with the other. The dog end went on the pavement. Here in Hackney we have some very clean streets, due to an excellent street team, but people should use the bins provided.
Most of the litter on the streets is discarded flyers from fast food shops, taxi companies and others, dog ends and empty beer cans. The latter strangely seem to be put in many cases in my can and bottle recycling bin, which sits on my front patio, by the wheelie bin.
On a more serious note, there were 50,000 or so blockages in the London sewers last year. One was an infamous Fatberg outside a fast food restaurant in Leicester Square, but many were caused by people putting their rubbish down the toilet rather than walking downstairs to put rubbish in their communal bins.
The Anonymous Widower 
We have a lot of litter bins, and very little litter, even though we are about 50 yards from a secondary school and a couple of hundred yards from a primary school. The secondary schools pupils are really good at putting litter in the bins, I have seen them keep in their hands until they reach the bin.
Growing up my kids had to take all their rubbish out of the car when we finished a journey and put it in the bin on the corner of the road.
Liz
Comment by liz | June 24, 2011 |
I don’t think kids are the problem, especially if like here most are walked to school. They quickly learn by example and probably some days actually pass our man with his barrow, who looks after the street and the bins.
It’s the drinkers, smokers and leaflet distributors, who are the real problem. And of course the foxes, who put their smell everywhere.
Comment by AnonW | June 24, 2011 |
We dont get many leaflet distributers, just the odd one through the letterbox. yes, there are fag ends around, although not many, and the odd empty beer can. But not much really.
Comment by liz | June 24, 2011 |
There needs to be a lot more one al over the country, maybe increasing the fine would be better.
Comment by Wheelie Bins | July 5, 2011 |