Post lockdown easing...... Rubbish!

[newbryford]

No respect.

A local (ex) beauty spot near me.

 

 

Edited June 2, 2020 by newbryford

[AY Mod]

It's appalling that people have such low regard for the wardens who have to spend time clearing up these beauty spots after these townie oafs. Reading about the crowds and the waste in the Lake District included a survey figure stating that 68% of them had never visited the area before. Hopefully they won't go again if they're the ones who treat the countryside like this.

[Markwj]

Blackpool prom was the same and I have seen footage of people climbing over turnstiles to get into public toilets to avoid paying 30p! Difficulty is if the R rate goes up we won't know for 2 weeks giving these people 2 weeks to act irresponsibly and spread the virus or litter whichever applies!

[Simon G]

It has been the same in the Lakes over this last weekend.  Why people cannot take their rubbish home I don’t know.  Pure selfishness.  And don’t get me started on the damage done by portable barbecues!  People place them on wooden picnic tables and the obvious net result is a damaged table.  They should be banned unless their is a purpose built area to put them safely.

[Crisis Rail]

The Golden Towers are firing up again - thankfully not to a franchise near us as yet - we have had enough problems with Colonel Sanders face appearing on the rural roads to Salwick.

 

Also the Preston Dock Car Park on Sunday morning  was an absoute disgrace  - KFC and Noz Hippie Crack  - so appetising.

[eastglosmog]

Disturbing reports of how much litter was left behind on Dorset beaches over the weekend https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52890608

Selfish behavior and dangerous to wildlife.

[Gilbert]

Don't get me started....this is a private riverside site which unfortunately has a public footpath...you should see the carnage each morning..

Edited June 2, 2020 by Gilbert

[Gilbert]

and here is a  small part of the carnage - the human waste is out of shot..

[big jim]

58 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

Reading about the crowds and the waste in the Lake District included a survey figure stating that 68% of them had never visited the area before.

 

its absolutely sickening, we have a caravan in cumbria, in silloth, and since lockdown we’ve obviously not been allowed to visit, even with the lockdown rules being eased weve not been tempted to even go up for a day just to give it the once over for fear of falling out with the many local friends we have made up there over the last few years, a lot of whom are in the hospitality business at the holiday parks, they dont want us there socially and in all fairness we have no business being there while the hoilday parks are effectively shut, as soon as things return to some sort of normality both on the holiday park and in the town then we will go back, hopefully it will be sometime before the end of summer because im sure missing the area 

 

[Nearholmer]

Crises always bring out the best of human nature, and the worst, and it certainly feels as if the easing of lock-down has bought on a "worst" moment as a counterpoise to all the "best" that we've seen lately.

 

I can't help but think that the messaging around the need to maintain 2m distance, even if you are young, fit and white, to avoid passing the virus to people who are not in that happy zone of low vulnerability, has been very muted/ill-expressed, which must be a small part of the problem ......... but the fact that some people think its perfectly OK to treat the world we all live in like a combination of a dustbin and an open sewer has nothing to do with that, and speaks of a sliver of society that has no respect for itself or anyone else ....... very sad indeed.

[Pete the Elaner]

How difficult is it to put your rubbish in a bag or pocket until you find a bin?

Employing somebody to clear rubbish away is a waste of everybody's money & should be put to much better use.

 

Don't they fine people for littering in some places? Singapore for example?

[Nearholmer]

9 minutes ago, Pete the Elaner said:

How difficult is it to put your rubbish in a bag or pocket until you find a bin?

 

Its really, really hard when you are off your face on cheap booze, cheap drugs, or whatever your chosen poison is. And maintaining 2m distance is beyond you too.

 

Pick to the bottom of this, and you will find that one of the many root causes is some people making a fat living out of intoxicating the bored youth of the UK.

 

All those silver canisters, balloons and empty cider cans tell a story, not the whole story, but part of it.

Edited June 2, 2020 by Nearholmer

[Rivercider]

1 hour ago, Simon G said:

It has been the same in the Lakes over this last weekend.  Why people cannot take their rubbish home I don’t know.  Pure selfishness.  And don’t get me started on the damage done by portable barbecues!  People place them on wooden picnic tables and the obvious net result is a damaged table.  They should be banned unless their is a purpose built area to put them safely.

I have just come back along the seafront here, the smell of barbecues mingling with the smell of cannabis.

It is difficult to see how a barbecue can safely be disposed, something that has clearly not been thought through.

And if there were to be a serious accident with one the nearest A&E is currently Taunton or Bristol, our local hospital closed the doors to all admissions last week due to the virus.

On the approach roads to Weston there are signs saying 'seafront parking closed' perhaps they should also add 'local A&E closed'

 

cheers 

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[john new]

These idiots don't care. Madness all over this part of Dorset the litter and bad parking as everywhere else, toileting behind beach huts in Bournemouth, the whole Durdle Door farce, a major forest and heathland fire at Wareham due to disposable barbecues and many, many, similar smaller fires. Devon had it too, with heath fires etc. 

[newbryford]

Darwen Moor near Blackburn has been on fire - cause is reported to be a disposable BBQ.

There was another fire on Longridge Fell over the weekend. Probably visitor related.

 

And not helped by the long spell of dry weather.

[APOLLO]

Very sad state of affairs.

 

Round em all up, take their names and addresses. Collect all the litter up, divide it among them, deliver it to their house and  put it through the letterbox - mind you it probably wont make a blind bit of difference !!!

 

Same with graffiti "artists" - graffiti the insides of their homes.

 

Brit15

[MR Chuffer]

This has little to do with the corona virus epidemic, there was a tendency for people to behave like this before it.

 

And I live " About 10 miles from the Centre of The Kingdom" too, like @newbryford, who will know what Longridge Fell is like every year after schools break up in the summer and the school leavers "congregate".

[Gilbert]

43 minutes ago, Pete the Elaner said:

How difficult is it to put your rubbish in a bag or pocket until you find a bin?

Employing somebody to clear rubbish away is a waste of everybody's money & should be put to much better use.

 

Don't they fine people for littering in some places? Singapore for example?

Nobody who cleaned up this site got paid..they found 4000 little gas canisters...

[big jim]

What are those gas canisters, I see them all over the place in more ‘salubrious areas’ of various towns 

[Nearholmer]

Nitrous oxide, a "legal high".

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Nitrous-Oxide-Canisters/25384/bn_7023452232

 

As I say, people are making a living out of intoxicating bored youth.

Edited June 2, 2020 by Nearholmer

[Crisis Rail]

6 minutes ago, big jim said:

What are those gas canisters, I see them all over the place in more ‘salubrious areas’ of various towns 

 

......The recreational use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is on the rise, as more and more people are misusing the drug in an effort to get high. People inhale the gas - also known as "hippy crack" - from balloons or metal cannisters for the euphoric, pain-numbing effect.

 

Kids of today eh? Tsk.

[rockershovel]

On a serious note, allowing people to access recreation areas any distance from peoples homes, without opening toilets and hospitality outlets seems to me, quite absurd. What do they expect to happen? 

 

The way to dispose of portable barbecues is in a portable barbecue bin. There are several of them at Ferry Meadows, the country park outside Peterborough and they are heavily used. Another challenge for our local authorities, another opportunity for their refuse contractors! 

 

 

[Alex TM]

31 minutes ago, APOLLO said:

Collect all the litter up, divide it among them, deliver it to their house and  put it through the letterbox - mind you it probably wont make a blind bit of difference !!!

It depends what 'litter' you have in mind; if England is like Scotland, all the public toilets are closed .....

[vaughan45]

I suspect many of these characters would normally be in 'Ibeefa' or on stag and hen do's in eastern Europe by now. Probably wouldn't visit these areas of the UK in normal times. If the toilets were open do they actually know how to use them?

[rockershovel]

3 minutes ago, Crisis Rail said:

 

......The recreational use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is on the rise, as more and more people are misusing the drug in an effort to get high. People inhale the gas - also known as "hippy crack" - from balloons or metal cannisters for the euphoric, pain-numbing effect.

 

Kids of today eh? Tsk.

 

It’s also used for short-term power boosts in racing engines, particularly motorcycle engines as the installation is small and light. Automotive grade “nitrous” usually has a small amount of sulphide added to prevent it being used as an intoxicant, because the bigger bottles contain a lethal dose.