Littering

Kevster

Hi,


If you are still littering then please just stop. Hang onto your rubbish and drop it into a dustbin.


Kevin.

Pocari Sweat

agreed

abetarrush

Sometime I throw a banana skin into areas where theres heavy grass

is this litterin? I c it as helpin the soil
[banana will rot and eventually nourish the soil]

Kevster

Leaving the banana there is fine of course - You're right. It'll be a rich source of nutriment for a myriad of kinds of life.

RedPlanet

I'll never forget this classic moment of ignorance:

In USA relatives had brought me fishing on a lake (you gotta have loads of redt ape to do this: fishing licenses, boat registrations, park entry stickers)
Anyway after being on the water for a few hours i had an apple then threw teh core into the lake. My cousin started freaking out saying that could of landed me a $500 fine for littering. I was there saying that the apple was organic matter and isn't really litter and here we are sitting in a boat powered by this large outboard petrol consuming motor that dumps all of it's waste (exhaust) directly into the lake.... and sure THAT's not litter!:rolleyes:

Kevster

A classic moment indeed! I fear that our intelligence is our own down-fall: We should never have come down from the trees

Alun

Kevster wrote:

Leaving the banana there is fine of course - You're right. It'll be a rich source of nutriment for a myriad of kinds of life.

Banana skins and orange peel actually take a surprisingly long time to fully decompose, I've seen figures of up to 2 years to decompose fully, and judging by some of the black dried up examples at the top of some of our more popular hills in Wicklow, like Djouce or Lugnaquillia I can believe it. I take my peel / apple cores home and compost them properly.

golden

abetarrush wrote:

Sometime I throw a banana skin into areas where theres heavy grass

is this litterin? I c it as helpin the soil
[banana will rot and eventually nourish the soil]

Yes it would be considered littering even though it will rot in time. I have seen on some signs "only leave your footprint behind"

leeroybrown

I live in Galway City where the city council have tak en the view that people who come to town to do business should bring their own rubbish home. I don't litter and I don't like to see people littering but when urban authorities try to cut costs be reducing the level of public bin facilities to below the minimum required then it's hardly surprising that people just thrash the place. If you bring food/packaging into the wild you would expect to have to deal with it yourself - you shouldn't have to expect a half mile trek to find a bin in an inner city area.

Kevster

That's certainly true leeroybrown. I have noticed that in Dublin there aren't siderable distances with rubbish in my grasp to reach a bin. It clearly shows too because in a few cases rubbish bins iun the city are overloaded. Some people still try their best though and place their rubbish on top of the bin

Archeron

One thing I've noticed (and this is a strange one) is how people react to different types of signs asking you not to litter.

The town I live in has all the polite signs saying please dont litter, and please respect our town, and the town itself is spotless. However, I've seen other towns with signs saying quite abruptly "bring your litter home!!" and the reaction is seems to get from people is "dont f*cking tell me what to do". I've actually heard people say this and things like it on a few occasions.

Moral of the story, if you're gonna put up a dont litter sign, try to be polite with it, I reckon more people will respect the request that way.

KTRIC

I live in the Walkinstown (Greenhills) area of Dublin and although its a nice area to live the litter problem in the past few months has escalated for some reason. I have seen the same broken bottles on the streets for past few weeks and the grass verge in front of my house is completely unmanageable because people use it as a dumping ground for beer cans etc and dog sh!t, so I can't even cut the grass.

And to top it off DCC have actually removed the last few remaining public bins on the foot paths !!!

Easca

I don't think asking people simply not to litter is a solution. You need to explain why littering is harmful. Personally I'd prefer to see more recycle bins on the streets of Dublin.

One of the main sources of litter that I have noticed are builders. They don't seem to understand the concept of tidying up after themselves.

Doomspell

Surely the birds would eat the apple?

piraka

Kevster wrote:

Hi,


If you are still littering then please just stop. Hang onto your rubbish and drop it into a dustbin.


Kevin.

If you can find a dustbin. I have just come back off holidays. The seaside town I was staying did not have council litter bins or shop bins visible. Saves on bin charges I suppose. Can you give the rubbish back to the shops?......here have an apple core.

Do-more

Was following a twat on the N30 into New Ross today, when he fecked a large paper drinks cup, half full of coke, out the passenger window of his car. Took his number, rang Wexford Co.Co. Environment Dept. and reported it. Only problem comes if the matter goes to court and I have to appear as a witness, as I live in Mullingar and it would be over 200 mile round trip plus a day off work to attend. Will have to wait to see what comes of it...

I regularly report black bags etc. dumped on the side of the road to the relevant Co.Co. what really galls me is when they are still there after 5 days, but I don't let it go and will ring and report it again.

Illegal burning gets on my wick as well, 4 or 5pm on a Friday seems to be the favourite time for builders to do a bit of burning. Reported illegal burning at one site for a new school twice in 3 weeks, makes me think that the Council never acted on the first report... It really doesn't encourage you to keep reporting things, but to give up would be to let the litterers win, so I keep perservering.