Surely it must encourage rats and mice to nest in there as well,Tezza.
Wollongong council refuse to put bins in bus shelters because then they would have to empty them and that costs money but to be honest they are not that littered.
The worse litter is about two blocks from Maccas or KFC when kids have finished their burger and drop the packaging. On the bright side these days it is all paper so at least it breaks down.
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A local Tip in the vale was closed a couple of years back to save money .Since then people have dumped all sorts at side of road in farmers fields because its to far to go the extra miles to the next tip .
This is now extra expense to the council to go round clearing it up , so not saved that much .
Asbestos often turns up , I remember when we wanted to dispose of it we had to pay the council , we had to double wrap it in hazard bags and put it in special containers . The council worker was not allowed to help, or touch the bags .
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Litter is a big problem everywhere I think. Here there are people, volunteer groups, who go out regularly in their own areas & pick litter up. It does make a difference.
At present, on our main roads, the grass & wild flowers are quite high, but along comes the council to mow it & after that the litter really shows up & they never pick that up as well.
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Our village is generally litter-free because we have various volunteer groups who do a litter pick about twice a year where they go into ditches and less accessible places. However, our nearest town is dreadful - face masks, cigarette packets, chewing gum etc. There are plenty of litter bins too! A few years ago the council installed a loud speaker system which worked alongside the CCTV cameras and if anyone was seen dropping litter they would be told to pick it up. It always made me feel as if I’d dropped litter when it boomed out - even though I hadn’t!! That is no longer there though now and so the town is worse than ever.
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A couple of years ago our council employed litter officers and people were being instantly fined £50 even for dropping cigarettes on the street . Of course there was a hoo ha in the local paper and people were furious but it worked . They have now gone . It seemed the company were paying the council to do the job so a percentage went to the council so no strain on the council tax etc . Brilliant idea as far as many were concerned
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Same where we live Eliza, a couple of groups have started up clearing up litter, it wasn’t so long ago you were fined for dropping litter, when our secondary school was open…it’s now closed and pupils moved to a new school, …at lunch time, the rubbish that was left by some pupils was horrendous, from the shop where they bought their lunch,right up to their school, paper and boxes strewn all over
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You are all right loads more rubbish on the streets than pre lockdown. I belong to two litter picking groups as I am in the middle and we collect loads but still its there.
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I salute to the groups picking up litter, especially when there are children among them, it teaches them to have respect for people and the place they live, but it must make them angry when they have picked up someone else’s litter only to see it building up again
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Has anyone noticed a build up of cups/etc by traffic lights or slow/stationary traffic locations
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I haven’t noticed any of that Kazz, just litter strewn everywhere, in the bus shelter, there have been cans, crisp packets, sandwich cartons where the crusts are left in the plastic container…
There has even been private things, which I couldn’t repeat in this thread, not that it shocks me mind.nothing shocks me these days.
maybe litter bins are not such a good idea at bus shelters, in summer anyway, I’ve seen the wasps they attract…
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I would imagine it would be better than dumping waste in the bus shelter where wasps and flies hang out all over it…
They don’t need to put it right next to the shelter, but at least a short distance away. not half a mile down the road…
@pauline3 Where I used to live there was a bin next to the bus stop and it kept being set alight. It was moved across the road from the bus stop and was never set alight again. Mind you, rubbish was left at the bus stop after the bin was moved. It’s difficult to win in these situations isn’t it?
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What a lot of weirdos there are they could be bored youths i suppose. In the genteel country town where i live they set a fire in ih invalid toilets why for the love of whatever. On the FB page I suggested they be put in the stocks until they were begging for a loo,( it was zapped as being unkind ) no worries for disabled people needing a toilet - they wrecked the door too.
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Street litter bins were removed during the IRA bombing campaigns to prevent them being used to hide bombs in. That’s why bins are so few and far between.
Our local council has the opposite problem, the number of bins in the town centre are about right but they are almost always full to overflowing because the council can’t afford to empty them once/week like they used to. Now they are starting a trial of double sized bins so they’ll be able to empty them once every 2 weeks thus helping to reduce the area’s carbon footprint (or so says the pamphlet the Tories published last week). Cynical me thinks it’s just to save money because our council is well skint thanks to many years of Labour mismanagement of the finances.
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Try and find a litter bin at London rail stations for the same reason .
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Even after a quadruple bypass, she’s out there with her litter picker, I must get my son to order one, isn’t it just great when we all do our part to make this earth a much better cleaner world…
She’s a real star, @Eliza, thank you for sharing,
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If you think your areas are full of litter you need to read this article in today’s Mail on Sunday about Glasgow: Climate change summit: Nicola Sturgeon's SNP turned Glasgow into environmental disaster | Daily Mail Online