Ditto. Depressing.

I was there on Saturday and tbh honest I didn’t think the beach was that crowded, certainly not as much as it appears to be in the link 😕

Another Brighton resident here but I look at it in a more positive way, thousands more tons of rubbish gets up of it’s fat useless arse at the end of the day and heads back to London. 🙂

Quick edit: obviously this does not include ernie above,I have no idea where he lives. 🙂

Similar thing here in That London’s City of Westminster. Some events require an insane clear up.

Oddly, though, the Olympic road events appear to have been very, very clean, in litter terms, all things considered.

Boo. I was hoping for at least “my trousers”…”a few clangers”… 😀

Am thinking of a day trip to Brighton when next in the smoke (end Sept)…any must-do tips from the locals?

don’t get it…..nice dig though.

Same happens in Cambridge every weekend in the main Parks. Massive influx of young European students on 3 months language courses, who just drop their empty food / drink containers on the grass. There’s also a few messy locals, but they are in the minority in this case.

im not sure there is that much cost involved in clearing party waste up…. i went on a visit to a mrf site recently and the guy who managed it told me it ran at a 6 figure profit. he was selling mixed plastic for £200 per tonne. even paper is getting close to £100 per tonne a scrap value. alu cans? god knows, probably £1500 per tonne.
how much does a litter picker cost? community service lot aren’t they?

i would like to point out after my previous post that i in no way condone litter, in fact i abhor it, and regularly pick up other peoples and have a go at people who drop it. i was merely pointing out that waste pays for its own collection these days.

very much depends on the costs of building and running MRF’s MBT-AD plants IVC’s etc.. a lot of processes that are supposed to be fairly green such as biogas generation from MBT/AD and In Vessel Composting are running poorly and certainly not as designed. The most cost effective thing is to just sort and bale waste at transfer loading stations, but again if you look at the full process including shipping and transport of the product being sold, it’s certainly no where as rosey and profitable as made out.

We get litter on Bournemouth/Poole beaches too, but not in the same quantities as Brighton.

Not sure why, maybe people feel more guilty about leaving rubbish on a proper sandy beach. Alternatively, maybe it’s because we get far fewer filthy Laaaarndarners.

Was at Camunsary beach on Skye recently and was genuinely shocked by the amount of rubbish on the beach there.Not from backpackers,walkers or cyclists but from fishing boats.

I had a slight red mist moment a month or so back , walking along the front and a bloke sitting fishing chucked his pie wrappers on the ground. I picked them up and went back saying “Hello you seem to have indavertantly dropped these”. He told me t F off so i shoved them in his mouth ! Probably could have been assault really but he was a bit stunned mullet (boom tish). I cannot abide people chucking litter like that.

Brighton beach tends to be busier at midnight than midday on a summers weekend and that picture was taken near dawn so that’s a night’s worth of chip wrappers plus a few of the bewildered and left behind drunks we’re seeing.

Might help if there were ever any rubbish bins ! Local councils and FCS have a policy of not providing bins so much any more, as that means they have to empty them.

”Brighton and Hove City Council said despite installing 60 extra litter bins the beachfront was left covered with rubbish.

It has also employed 20 extra seasonal staff to cope with the increase in litter.”

Anyway, no bin = no excuse. Keep hold of it until you find one, or take it home.

Dropping litter really REALLY boils my pi$$ 😡

The typical British tourist is something to be ashamed of sadly. I was in a picturesque Cotswold village last weekend and a rough looking couple (yeah sue me for stereotyping :p ) with a baby fed the ducks and then unbelievably just dropped the plastic bread bag in the river.

Which suggests that it’s more likely to be local residents rather than day trippers, does it not ?

On Sunday the beach was busy all the way to the Marina in Kemptown and between the piers – you couldn’t see the shingle for all the pink/burnt red flesh.