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[2wheels]

The thing that pishes me off the most are the recovery firms. Yes they will collect a car, but the half tonne of bumper, tyres or windscreens that flew off the wreck? Nah, leave that in the hedge.

Tyre companies are just as bad- HGV tyre blows up on the side of the road, they leave the carcass behind. Fudgeers.

my son works for a recovery company. they had 2 vehicles attenting a bad smash and my so was asked to go out with an extra unit. the defender and a trailer was asked for and my son thought he would be picking up a car but was needed for all the parts which were strewn along 200+ yds of the road. they always pick up the pieces.


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[Grassman]

The thing that pishes me off the most are the recovery firms. Yes they will collect a car, but the half tonne of bumper, tyres or windscreens that flew off the wreck? Nah, leave that in the hedge.

Tyre companies are just as bad- HGV tyre blows up on the side of the road, they leave the carcass behind. Fudgeers.

I saw one last week do just that. Heap of glass and plastic lepton the pavement.
But the annoying thing is there was 4 police there as it was on a dangerous corner. Why didn't they make the recovery company clear up?

 

[melted welly]

I've been meaning to do the same on the lane leading to the farm. Thing is, what do you do with the stuff collected ? Up to our limit on what can be collected by the bin man as it is ( could this be one reason for it being there in the first place ? ) At least a dozen fly tipped bags in the layby. What's in them ? If it's asbestos, it'll be costly to sort out.... ( another reason ? If there was an amnesty at council tips, 50% of fly tipping would stop IMO )
About 20 years ago, a Ford Sierra was abandoned in the same place. I managed to squeeze just about all the fly tipped car tyres / bags / and other crap into it. Car taken away, job done.

That is genius!

 

[jed]

Our lane past the farm runs into the back of town and we have a family from a housing estate at the town end who walk the lane a couple of times a year and pick all the litter then leave it by the farm gate and I wang it in the rubbish trailer several bags as a rule.
If only more people where like them the world would be a better place.

 

[tje]

It's not the fines ( some have no money to pay ) it's the flogging which does the trick !!

Caning in Singapore - Wikipedia

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The answer appears to be bigger fines and more of them. Presumably there comes a point when it is self financing.
Singapore: Laws To Know Before You Go Singapore is known for its impeccable cleanliness and low crime rate. The country has such a strong reputation for being safe that the authorities had to put out a warning stating that “low crime does not mean no crime,” reminding people to stay vigilant. But, as with most good things, the high regard the country gets for its cleanliness and safety comes with a price. Singapore is sometimes called “The Fine City,” but this title has a double meaning that you don’t want to be on the wrong end of. The label refers to the immaculate, or fine, state that Singapore is in, but also for the many different fines the country imposes.

 

[Cowslip]

I found a bag full of lunch-rubbish in our field next to the railway bridge where some contracted railway-workers had been the day before. I went searched through the bag and in it found a time sheet with the companies name on. Took a bit of time on the computer to find the name of the MD of the company but eventually got through to him and reported what I'd found. End result - a £50 M&S voucher, bouquet of flowers and 2 hand written letter of apology from the dirty barstewards who'd chucked the rubbish. The MD also rang me back to tell me that both employees had received written warnings. Similar thing happened when rail workers parked in our farm gateway and later I found an empty milk carton (they'd been having their one-of-many tea breaks) chucked down. I rang the company and insisted that they send the same guys back to pick up their litter (which they did).
I can't stand filthy people.

The railway take it very seriously, we had them sat on our farm whilst working on the railway, at the end of the day there was a pile of rubbish, a bottle full of what looked like p*** excrement and s***** paper! I rang the railway with vehicle details and a description of the perpetrator. They sent 2 guys out straight away to clear it up. I spoke to them and they said it wasn't the first time the same person had been reported. They were extremely apologetic and said that they thought the perpetrator was being sacked.

 

[MontyK]

I did a mini litter pick on the main road just the other day. Costa cups and McDonalds wrappers are the most common with an assortment of bits of car trim thrown in for good measure. Found a massive telly and most of a motorbike once.
A few years ago I was working in a field that borders the main road, it has a gateway and a layby just next to each other so finding little gifts is quite common. My son was with me at the time and he could see what looked like a big tub left in the corn. He hopped down out of the tractor to investigate and with instructions not to touch anything, moments later I can see him waving at me and laughing. It turns out that some delightful builder character got a bit desperate and took a dump in the tub, but what was making my son laugh was that the lack of paper meant that he'd had to wipe his arse with a huge carpet tile! Kept him amused all afternoon thinking just how it would be possible!

We have a field that runs along side a busy A road with a layby, bloody trucks park there at night, well worn path through hedge and piles of on margin

 

[T Hectares]

I'm genuinely surprised that it took 7 posts to lay some blame on Ronald Mcdonald

It’s the only fast food outlet nearby so no doubt that’s a factor!!
But seeing @teslacoils experience I wonder if a national coordination of returning McD’s packaging to them might see a few more Fukks given ??

 

[Av Gorritt]

It's a few years back now , but I went a few times to Canada , basing myself in Vancouver . There were no empty cigarette packets or crisp bags or suchlike to be seen anywhere . seem to be very tidy people the Canadians . I always thought that since there was no rubbish strewn about , you would think twice about being the first to chuck rubbish in the street

 

[principal skinner]

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I did a lot of walking in the Austrian Tirol one year. In my week's holiday I saw one piece of litter.
When I was a Scout leader I found it soul destroying trying to get them out of the habit of junking.
Mrs Y patrols the 2 mile stretch of our road from farm to main road. The local councilor mentioned her in his monthly newsletter.
I collected an HP inkjet printer out of a gateway and used it for a couple of years until it swallowed a wodge of paper.
I have heard of a pistol being found but I don't know if it's true.

 

[Lakesdigger]

We have a piece of land on the side of a main road (actually a section of old road) which often when there are surfacing works happening they come and ask if they can park in there. Don't actually let them anymore but a few years ago now they were let in and the litter left behind was disgraceful. Anyhow i went and did a litter pick and gathered up 2 bin bags of rubbish. Old lad asked me what i was gonna do with it which i hadn't thought of until he asked. The only machinery left was a roller and diesel bowser. Roller cab was locked so couldn't put it in there but luckily lid on top of bowser wasn't so i emptied the two bags into there. Never heard owt but they've never asked to park again

 

[Wuffler]

I did a lot of walking in the Austrian Tirol one year. In my week's holiday I saw one piece of litter.

Ditto.
They were cutting the roadside verges when I was there and making hay.
Can you imagine doing that in this country?...Quite!

 

[Bobthebuilder]

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Looks like it was a cheep date

 

[jed]

A good ITV report on the snow of 1982:

Ditto.
They were cutting the roadside verges when I was there and making hay.
Can you imagine doing that in this country?...Quite!

This was on the Italian side a couple of years back the whole family out raking the grass down the hill sides not a piece of litter anywhere but also no kfc or Macci D’s either.

 

[teslacoils]

It’s the only fast food outlet nearby so no doubt that’s a factor!!
But seeing @teslacoils experience I wonder if a national coordination of returning McD’s packaging to them might see a few more Fukks given ??

The bag had the receipt in. It was a drive through. The place anprs all the cars. I can't see why they can't put a system in so that person can't buy again. Well, I can see why. Dirty foot. Dumped by dirty folk.

 

[S J H]

Looks like it was a cheep date

Who said romance was dead

 

[ollie989898]

my son works for a recovery company. they had 2 vehicles attenting a bad smash and my so was asked to go out with an extra unit. the defender and a trailer was asked for and my son thought he would be picking up a car but was needed for all the parts which were strewn along 200+ yds of the road. they always pick up the pieces.


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That does not appear to be the case of anyone working in Somerset. Can normally tell the make or model of a crashed car long after it is gone because half of it is left behind.

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

That does not appear to be the case of anyone working in Somerset. Can normally tell the make or model of a crashed car long after it is gone because half of it is left behind.

Same in Cambs. The A14 is a disgrace with bits of cars (including reg plates) and tyres left by recovery trucks added to the litter thrown by drivers or blown out of lorries going to the dump at Milton, trucks parked in laybys overnight leaving bottles and bags of driver-effluent, and fly-tipping.

It's the same all over the rest of the county though. I've started taking a rubbish bag with me on dog walks and I'm going to get a grabber thingy. The majority of other people appear to be depressing dirty scumbags.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

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Looks like he had 2 pies that day...