Littering

Not just council, but councils. I'm under Rotherham so nearest I can use is Warren Vale, which shuts one day a week. On that day I have to go to Car Hill, but Bolton is nearer only I can't use that now. I could until fairly recently though.

 

There's plenty of rubbish flying/blowing around in London, but the council here is pretty good. We've recycling bins for every sort of waste, caddys for food waste and they pick up large items for about £15 (used to be free til the butchering of central govt funding). Makes it very easy to recycle and our main bin only gets about a quarter full every 2 weeks. Though amazes me seeing many others stuff their main bin full and see all sorts of recyclables tied up in big bags.

 

When we are doing stuff for the in-laws (who live in Wath) we can't take any of the rubbish to their local tip (Warren Vale) as we live in Darfield. They are both ill, so can't do it themselves. When you need to do several trips, it makes things ridiculously difficult.

 

I’m not saying it was just the young... I work in a school so see their behaviour on a daily basis. I didn’t say they were the scum of the earth, merely that a majority are uneducated in social and environmental responsibility. Obviously parents should be taking a lot of this responsibility... but they don’t...

 

I also work in a school and feel sorry for the children you work with if you describe their behaviour as ‘vile’ and refer to them sarcastically as ‘lovely youths’ in reply to someone saying that people are driving up in cars and throwing McDonalds bags out of the windows. I’ve seen kids throw rubbish on the floor and kids voluntarily giving up their break times to litter pick. It seemed strange you picked out one group of people to criticise, especially the one group who it would be impossible to blame as they can’t drive.

 

Ask these people if they love their country and they'll answer yes.

Then why the **** make it look like a shitoil.

 

You work in a school but you are happy to lump all kids together as litterers? And you honestly think the majority of them are uneducated in social responsibility? I think youre so far wide of the mark it's unbelievable

 

Please read what I put before commenting... you’re making yourself look silly now. I would love to know which litter free school you work at... where you lump all children as hard done to and persecuted. Now instead of commenting upon me, comment upon the issue.

 

I don't work in a school

 

When I started this thread I thought there was absolutely no chance of it turning into a disagreement.

It's priceless this forum sometimes, and that's without HT chipping in with "the ex Wakefield council bin man" or "the young West Yorkshire sweeper" .

 

Or if still in reasonable condition can ring any charity shop who will come to their house and pick it up for free as a donation.

 

The thing these idiots don't appreciate (or don't care about) is the cost involved. Highways England collect 200,000 sacks of rubbish just from motorways every year, at a cost of £8m per year. That's money that could be spent improving roads. For other roads, streets, and open spaces, the combined cost to local councils must be jaw-dropping even allowing for cutbacks. The idea that "I'm paying for it to be picked up,so I might as well drop it" is bonkers. There's far better things to spend the money on.

And at the moment, the foliage on our country roads is masking much of the problem. Wait until autumn/winter then have a drive out into the countryside (I recommend Goldthorpe - Hickleton - Marr - to the A1 junction). The verges and hedgerows will be awash with it.

Gets my goat, it does.

 

Matresses are often slung on the street in poorer areas as they become invested with mites due overcrowding in the property.

 

Poorer areas you kind of understand. Poorer people have less access to transport to remove the item or money to pay for removal. But taking a mattress (or whatever) to the middle of Wombwell woods to dump it just seems spiteful.

 

Given the state of some one them poor or not id rather they got dumped in womble woods than on a footpath.

I prefer not to catch a multitude of diseases...

 

We live in a beautiful area. Since I got into cycling 6 or 7 years ago, I've seen parts of the region I didn't know existed. The Transpennine Trail, Wombwell Woods, Edderthorpe Lane cut through some lovely countryside, and there are other stretches, that probably were old colliery railway lines, access roads etc. Sad though that these same stretches seem to attract the littering and flytipping en-masse, there seems to be an increasing trend of people simply not valuing what we have on our doorstep.

Ultimately the example has surely got to be set by parents, but schools can play a proactive role. It's the generations to come that will ultimately see sustained improvement if we can somehow change the mindset. When I look at the verges around Carlton and Royston, particularly near all of the schools, there's undeniably a problem, but it's just part of a bigger issue.

 

Arncliffe (N Yorkshire) still has a set of Stocks right by the church.