Litter dropping really winds me up. It's not just the act itself - which is disgusting - but the selfishness it represents. People who drop litter out of their car windows really get to me, why can't they keep it in their car and dispose of it at their destination?
I live in Cheetham Hill in Manchester, which is really bad for Lucozade bottles - usually consumed by kids, do they really have ADHD or are they just drugged to the eyeballs on glucose? People frequently flytip the field where I walk my dog, despite the existence of a free Council bulk refuse collection service, it's more effort to dump it!
I recently pulled up one of my neighbours in the friendliest way I could, because she was throwing bottles on to the road, despite being stood next to her recycle bin. When I pointed this out she said "They aren't mine and someone gets paid to clean 'em up anyway".
I need to move and get some perspective. When did I become a moaning old man? 👿
couldnt believe what i saw yesterday, oldish guy walking towards me yesterday with 1 empty bottle just picked up then stopped and picked up another and carried on walking, there i was thinking good thoughts when he walked past a half empty skip then threw them in the hedgeback near railway line few steps further on, was too gobsmacked to say anything
Tesco did have recycling machines at some stores where you could put bottles and cans in the vending machine with your clubcard abnd earn green points, SADLY some muppets also decided to put burning newspaper in the slots and burnt them out.
Apparently it's not cool to put litter in a bin. The other thing that gets to me is dog ***t.
It's all just an extension of the same "not my problem culture" compounded by the fact that suggesting to an individual that they are acting like an arse by littering etc is some sort of terrible insult. If you were to say to a kid littering that he should pick up his rubbish and put it in a bin there is a fair chance that their parent would follow up with some kind of "how dare you" statement which just gives the kid, and eventually/collectively, a good chunk of society a god given right to do exactly as they like - regardless of the effect on others. Not that it is just kids by any stretch of the imagination.
I used to make a point of saying something to people that littered, or to people that used to walk away from dog mess on the city pavement. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't worth the risk when living in Glasgow city and have moved to an area where it happens a bit less. It's not like I'm an old moany git either, I just can't see any reason for it. That's the problem with the people that do it though...a total lack of reason.
Once scared the wits out a female motorist whom flicked her cigarette butt out of her window, unforetunately she wasn't looking and didn't see me roll up along side her at the lights, the aforementioned cigarette butt hitting me as I stopped, i politely coughed to get her attention picked up the butt and with a cheery "I believe this is yours" dropped it back into her car (ensuring I had put it out) then casually cycled away...
...she sat there in disbelief for a while, and gave me a wide berth when she passed me a little way down the road.
Todays good deed was to start collecting the blown away 'celebration balloons', which with the prevailing wind from that Manchester and Stockport, always end up in the lovely countryside around the Peak District.
They're easy to spot up in trees and hedges due to the bright colours.
One down, one hundred to go.
