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Post by Tringa on May 30, 2020 6:28:20 GMT
Saw this while walking with the dog this morning.
I don't know if someone brought the tyre with them, or just found it, but I assume they brought the large plastic box, which means they probably did not carry it very far so why not take it away. The nearest houses are about 100m away.
Dave
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Post by ianr on May 30, 2020 9:38:22 GMT
It's heart breaking isn't it I see all sorts of crap dumped down country lanes as I'm driving around. Even here at home there's a sycamore tree over the road it's a favourite spot for any old furniture they can't get in the bin. I'm one of a few who report it to the council I'll usually point out that when they send someone to collect it they can't miss it it's right under the NO TIPPING sign  The council never knock on a few doors and it's plain to see where it comes from they do however pick it up in a day or two. That just encourages it I guess ian |
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Post by Tringa on May 30, 2020 15:18:19 GMT
I'm at a loss to understand the way people who do this view the world.
Do they just not think about what they leave behind when they have eaten, I mean it isn't they are being deliberately untidy/antisocial, it is just they leave a load of crap after they have a good time sitting in the sun eating and drinking because the impact it has does register in their minds.
Or are they completely uncaring for the anyone else who might stumble on what they have left or have no regard for the environment and just think someone else will clear it up.
I would love be a fly on the wall in their houses.
I'm old enough to remember the 'Keep Britain Tidy' message, which I first noticed in, perhaps, the late 1950s or early 60s.
Do need another campaign now?
Dave
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Post by rowanberry on May 30, 2020 22:12:17 GMT
That really is so disheartening... I don't understand the mentality of people who behave like this. Go out into places of natural beauty and trash it.  |
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Post by Tringa on May 31, 2020 6:26:31 GMT
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Post by Psamathe on Jun 1, 2020 9:24:18 GMT
I wonder if many of those leaving that rubbish do so on the assumption that "somebody else will come and pick it all up". Without knowing those individuals, I assume that were they to arrive at the place, picnic basket in hand to find the site as it was left the day before (as in the photos) they would be disgusted and probably go somewhere else (and leave their rubbish there).
I tend to think the same of fly-tippers - they don't want the countryside to be scattered with piles of rubbish but dump it on the basis that before long local authority will be called to collect it.
As a bit of an aside, last year I took some old timber to my local dump (off-cuts from shed and fence repairs). Reason for taking it was they have a timber recycling skip and it's only half Km from the road to the shops. And they charged me for the taking the stuff there! And I thought how daft because what I took would be recycled but many experiencing the same would instead put the same recyclable stuff in their black wheelie bin where the council will collect it for free and it will go to landfill; or it will be fly-tipped at night in some ditch.
Ian
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Post by Tringa on Jun 2, 2020 11:10:59 GMT
I think you are correct. If the folks who do this sort of thing found the place they wanted to use littered they would probably make some expletive deleted comment, move on and, as you say, drop their litter there.
We live close to an area used for Sunday football and almost every Monday the touchlines of the pitches are defined by litter(even when the organisers have put bins out). Mrs Tringa has suggested the litter is collected after the matches, kept until early the following Sunday and then tipped in the goal mouths.
My experience of the local tip is the same as yours. Along with a fair bit of other stuff I had some rubble that was about the same size as a dozen bricks. I was told I'd be let off this time but in the future I would be charged for it. This was annoying because charging to dump encourages fly tipping and rubble(plus many other things) is separated for recycling and I bet when someone wants a load of hardcore they are charged for it.
I wonder if this is caused because the local tip is no longer run by the local council, it is now privately owned.
Dave
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Post by accipiter on Jun 3, 2020 18:33:53 GMT
The simple truth is there’s a certain section of society that just doesn’t want to know or care about others, the following quote sums it all up quite well...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Charles Dickens, a Tale of Two Cities
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