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15 Feb
11:22am, 15 Feb 2025
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Ally-C
Bazoaxe wrote: Edinburgh had a burnt out motorbike this week. They had managed to drag it off the prom and had an extra marshal with cones at the debris. I have seen that at least once before at cramond Litter, fly tipping and shit like the above are endemic in Scotland’s green places where you can access by any road. |
15 Feb
12:15pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Meep Meep
One of my locals runs along a river, which currently has 3 shopping trolleys in it which have been added fairly recently. I did wonder why the nearby supermarket doesn't have someone go fish them out, but it's probably some health and safety thing. Maybe I'll pop across and retrieve them myself. No red tape here. |
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15 Feb
12:28pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Ally-C
Meep Meep wrote: One of my locals runs along a river, which currently has 3 shopping trolleys in it which have been added fairly recently. I did wonder why the nearby supermarket doesn't have someone go fish them out, but it's probably some health and safety thing. Maybe I'll pop across and retrieve them myself. No red tape here. I do wee local litter picks. You go back a week later and it’s building up again, mostly stuff tossed from cars, depressing as feck. How can you begin to get people to think of the environment when a substantial minority of folk can’t even keep their shit ‘til they get home? |
15 Feb
12:36pm, 15 Feb 2025
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larkim
Always depressing at the end of the summer when the council go out and strim back bushes and log grass by the side of main roads and all that is left is a sea of discarded plastics and takeaway packaging. Like you say, it is a minority of folks, but they are so lacking in basic consideration and civility!
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15 Feb
1:30pm, 15 Feb 2025
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wardi
I have family in Switzerland, walk around Basle or Zurich and it's like the entrance lobby of a posh hotel - no litter. The kids there are brought up strictly not to drop litter from an early age. This mentality then extends into their teens and twenties/thirties so they are still not dropping litter into adulthood. Anyone who is spotted dropping litter would possibly be photographed, named & shamed, and fined if found out. Back home, I'm on first name terms with our council clear up manager. A few of my local country lanes are favourites for the fly tippers so I report any rubbish that I find. The ones that nark me are the small quantities (recently 4 supermarket bags of wood shavings) that would easily fit in a wheelie bin. What is the matter with these people? I do a bit of minor litter picking on my runs, if I had £1 for every Red Bull and Monster can I've picked up from a grass verge I would be in the Seychelles tomorrow. |
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15 Feb
1:37pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Meep Meep
Ally-C wrote: I do wee local litter picks. You go back a week later and it’s building up again, mostly stuff tossed from cars, depressing as feck. How can you begin to get people to think of the environment when a substantial minority of folk can’t even keep their shit ‘til they get home? In my town the path the kids use to/from the secondary school has a build-up of litter every week. However, far more abhorrent I think is a car park in the town centre where adults will sit and eat lunch and just chuck their litter out the window of their parked car. Wtf? |
15 Feb
3:32pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Lesley C
There are several spots on the back roads near me that are fly tip hotspots. So sad. We also have lots of of litter around, obviously from cars. MacDonald cups and wrappers seem to be everywhere, the nearest restaurant is nearly 20 miles away. The local high school kids eat their lunch in the park out the back of me and leave litter everywhere, they are right next to 2 bins and still leave it on the ground. |
15 Feb
3:35pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Son of a Pronator Man
I agree that Fast food chains are the source of a lot of litter. They should be fined for the amount of rubbish that create that ends up as litter.
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15 Feb
3:42pm, 15 Feb 2025
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LipGloss
There was a shopping trolley in the river at Ellon parkrun. Looks like it’s been there a long time
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15 Feb
4:06pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Big_G
wardi wrote: I have family in Switzerland, walk around Basle or Zurich and it's like the entrance lobby of a posh hotel - no litter Same as some of the cities in Netherlands. Also, when we came back from Japan and jumped on the London tubes after landing, it was a big ‘back to normal’ moment. Transport in Japan was incredibly clean in comparison. |
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