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- Somerset UK
No creampie though!Looks like he had 2 pies that day...
No creampie though!Looks like he had 2 pies that day...
depends on the operator's eyesight.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.
They do this up here in Iceland, you pay at the start and then take your bottles and cans to a sorting place and dump them on to a conveyor and they get sorted out, counted and then you get your money back. You can end up with a nice little pay out... like money you find tucked in a book that you’d forgotten about.I did a lot of thinking while hooking bottles out of the ditches as to what could incentivise people to stop littering, and after I'd fantasized about knee-capping the culprits, my conclusion was penalties don't work, as you need evidence to fine people and catching people in the act in country lanes is very difficult too. There's no point having draconian laws if they can't be enforced. I favour the method of taxing the cans and bottles and plastic wrappers highly at point of purchase, and then giving some of that money back when the item is recycled or disposed of correctly. Thus meaning a van cab full of cans and wrappers actually represents money, so is less likely to be thrown out the window, and indeed if it is and I pick it up, I can get the refund money. Thus meaning picking up litter would be a source of income for kids etc. Its a win/win, less incentive for the purchaser to throw litter away, and more incentive for everyone else to pick it up if it is.
Tbh she must have been a bit of a sight if he had to "triple bag" it, and pay her with a sausage roll.
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.
,I just can’t understand the mentality that thinks it’s acceptable to just sling your empty can or bottle into the hedge.
Gobsmacking wasn't it!what about the sights after the music festival has ended? picture in the national press of one recently, showed a sea of abandoned tents and general rubbish the festival goers had come with, then just left it all behind?
I think in Japan the school children clean their own schools (so no need for cleaners), I guess this makes them grow up respecting the local environmet.,
If we could understand that, perhaps we could find a lasting cure for the problem. Maybe changing our label from 'throw away society' to 'caring society' and teaching it in schools and homes, as well as in the national media, would help.
I better not hold my breath whilst waiting for the change though!
I cycled over 750 miles in Japan and saw one discarded wrapper! We all commented on it.I think in Japan the school children clean their own schools (so no need for cleaners), I guess this makes them grow up respecting the local environmet.
On the bright side our local school student council has decided to do litter picks around the school. They were so over subscribed with volunteers that they did part of the town as well.I've got a nice delivery of cannabis farm waste to sort later, by all accounts the compost is good to go again for tomatoes next year...