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Post by Tringa on Jun 2, 2020 18:31:30 GMT
...... be allowed in the countryside.
I have just seen this on the BBC website -
Many years ago I did a Mountain Leadership course at Plas y Brenin and one of the participants, who worked for the Snowdonia National Park, said he thought some school groups should not be allowed into the countryside because they did not know how to behave with consideration towards the landscape. I think this could apply to many grown ups too.
Dave
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Post by rowanberry on Jun 3, 2020 12:15:10 GMT
With all that's constantly in the news about how important our environment and our oceans are, and yet this is how people still behave.  I don't understand why these sub-species of humans want to go to a place of natural beauty- surely they can't see or appreciate it? Honestly, things like this make me so angry- in my opinion they rank right down there with those who shoot hen harriers or poison foxes. 100% bottom-of-the-barrel pond scum... although saying that, even pond scum doesn't leave dirty nappies on the beach.  I'm going to go watch our woodpeckers now and calm down. |
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Post by Tringa on Jun 3, 2020 15:40:14 GMT
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Post by Psamathe on Jun 3, 2020 17:20:57 GMT
It's weird (rubbish leavers) and I agree with the above comments.
I live in a rural village (few hundred population) in Norfolk (which means you are not actually very far from other villages and towns). But a few years ago I walked a mile to the local post office (through rural lanes) and at the shop asked for a few carrier bags which they gave me and filled the bags with litter before I got home (having to stop for the last part of the walk). Not big piles but spread around crisp packets, beer/Red Bull cans, sweet wrappings, etc. And these are single track lanes, not "rat runs" so likely to have been locals walking or throwing out of car windows.
I leave my wheelie bin by the road ready for fortnightly collection and take the rubbish to the bin (rather than bin to lorry) and today I picked up sweet wrapper and a few other bits of plastic stuff from ground & hedge around the bin area - and those items likely discarded within sight of the bins.
I can't understand the mentality. Is it a small minority who don't care (the above photos don't look like "a small minority"). I don't know people who even flock to the beach for picnics, etc. so can't start to understand e.g. do those discarding the litter just throw everything in the landfill bin (or everything in the recycling bin!), do thy watch they TV programs showing turtles strangled by six-pack wrap rings (or do they clash with "Strictly Back-Off"?)
Ian
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Post by Tringa on Jun 3, 2020 18:53:56 GMT
Interesting comments and similar to what I have seen in some places. I can understand, though not condone, throwing away the odd sweet paper etc could happen when someone just doesn't think about what they are doing - the paper/crisp packet whatever is thrown away almost unconsciously. Leaving very large amounts of litter after having a meal is something else and those people know what they are doing, but why they do it is another matter.
There are some among groups who you would think would know better and be more tuned into the environment. Some time ago on a hill walking forum there was a report of a piles of litter being left near a bothy. This bothy was around nine miles from the nearest road and as one contributor to the forum said, "Given the bothy's location, that litter was left by one of us".
Dave
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