People and littering. WTF is wrong with them?

Aced_Up

Sports people and their energy drink empties thrown to the side.

Clusters of rubbish left where you could see there was a small group enjoying the sun, up sticks and left without any thought for the pile. Bin only 5 metres away.

Beer cans all over the show.

And the worst and totally illogical of them all:

Dog poo in bags left on the floor?!?! WTF you made the effort to bag it...but not bin it. Now the poo will be there for the life of the bag. Years, instead of a month.

All this in Fairview park... Disgusting the way some people treat the open areas.

Fr_Dougal

Ah sure that's Fairview for you.

The Backwards Man

I cringe when people call the ground the 'floor'.

dan1895

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Ah sure that's Fairview for you.

That's what I thought.

spurious

Dirty scum. The country is full of them. Probably don't let the neighbour's kids play in their house in case it gets messed up.

Aced_Up

The people that use the area seem ok. Students, families, groups of friends... No loutish behaviour. I have no trouble there.

Is this rubbish issue not the same most areas? Haven't really ventured to others more than once.

IM0

the ratio of bans to posts is quite strong so far Id say

monkey9

I hate little scummers like that. You see them walking through town with a burger or roll and just throw the wrapper on the ground, even as they actually walk by a bin.

mikemac1

Stroll up the road to Ballybough OP.

Filthiest area I've ever seen in Dublin. Walked through it for years at all hours, never a bother. So I'm not saying it's rough. People are fine.

Just you can't walk through it without untagged black bin bags around the place.

I believe DCC recently planned to stop collecting for two weeks in areas like this.

The dumpers don't care, the locals who don't dump are affected all the same

Scrag

It is about civic pride and we have none. It is contempt.

donegal_road

I have a few regs of cars I spotted dumping in a forest up the road from me.
There is no evidence to pursue them though, I know who one of them is and it would be hard to let them know they are on the radar.

DublinArnie

I also hate littering too. My jaw drops wide open when I see someone just throwing a packet of crisps or whatnot on the ground, i'm like OMG! I can't believe how lazy people are, I can't even throw anything on the ground on the street, my hands don't allow it.

bnt

I personally measure a person's degree of civility by how he or she behaves towards the "commons". Littering is just one example of anti-social behaviour. Others include having noisy arguments on the street, bothering passers-by, graffiti and other damage to public property.

I sometimes wonder whether people even grasp the idea of the "commons". I don't mean the concept in academic words - just some kind of sense that there are things that we all share, and that if you spoil them, you spoil them for everyone, including yourself. :rolleyes:

Duiske

Aced_Up wrote: »

Dog poo in bags left on the floor?!?! WTF you made the effort to bag it...but not bin it. Now the poo will be there for the life of the bag. Years, instead of a month.

Unless of course you do the planet a favour, pick it up and deposit it in the bin which, handily enough for you, is

only 5 metres away.

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JuliusCaesar

donegal_road wrote: »

I have a few regs of cars I spotted dumping in a forest up the road from me.
There is no evidence to pursue them though, I know who one of them is and it would be hard to let them know they are on the radar.

Post the pics on local lamp-posts. Let everyone know what they did.


Just don't forget to take the pics down a week later, so they don't end up as litter.

Yamanoto

Raised by Wolves etc.

Augmerson

I hate people who litter. Why not just put it in your pocket and wait til you get home if you can't find a bin?

I used to walk through Stephen's Green in Dublin on the way home from work and in the summer months you'd nearly want to cry. All the lawns were covered with thrash - empty cans, McDonald's stuff, bottles. There were loads of bins nearby but people just dumped it all about. Sad :l

Although it's alright because the park gets cleaned up but many other places don't these days.

AlekSmart

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I cringe when people call the ground the 'floor'.

Yep,me too,Backwards Man..although there is a neat solution becoming more popular,put all the small bagged deposits into a larger bag and leave it on the Bus.....Neat eh ??

Ardent

You wanna see Dublin 8 and The Coombe. The streets are full of rubbish blowing in the wind.

Sums up Dublin for me - a flithy city full of knackers.

Irish Guitarist

A few days ago I was taking a walk in the forest when I saw a woman blow her nose and then just throw the snotty tissue on the ground.

I don't get why scumbags with no respect for nature go for walks in scenic areas.

I also see people feeding bread to swans and then dumping the bread wrapper on the ground. I'm no expert, but I think the swans would be better off with no bread but without their surroundings being polluted.

Aced_Up

Duiske wrote: »

Unless of course you do the planet a favour, pick it up and deposit it in the bin which, handily enough for you, is .

That is true enough, but to tackle it I would rather pick it up with gloves etc...

Having a father who contracted leptospirosis, I'm all to aware of handling this stuff safely...

In Malta I would have to walk a 500metres while holding a warm bag of poo to get to the bin. And quite liberating it was too strolling saying hi to locals while clutching the bag.

CB19Kevo

The thing i can't understand is that people who appear to have overall good moral conscience will still litter.
Its not just those who would be considered the standard scumbags.

The country is destroyed with plastic bags, bottles, cans and fast food wrappings and i for one just can't understand why people think it is acceptable.

If the people who do this had people start dump rubbish over there walls on a regular basis i wonder how they would like it.

Is it just that this country has a high amount of idiots or what?

K.Flyer

Throwing wrappers and rubbish on the ground and out of car windows is a lazy arsed knackery thing to do and anyone doing it deserves a good boot in hole.
They have absolutely no pride in themselves or their surroundings.
However in saying that, Dublin is a lot tidier than it was years ago before they brought in bag charges, back then it was a filthy mess, and a lot of work has gone into educating people on having some civic pride. Unfortunately there are some types of people who will never change and don't care either.

lods

Ardent wrote: »

You wanna see Dublin 8 and The Coombe. The streets are full of rubbish blowing in the wind.

Sums up Dublin for me - a flithy city full of knackers.

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jaffacakesyum

CB19Kevo wrote: »

The thing i can't understand is that people who appear to have overall good moral conscience will still litter.
Its not just those who would be considered the standard scumbags.

This. It's shocking! Or you get people who wouldn't litter normally but for some reason think it's ok to throw their cigarette butts on the ground. Disgusting.

mikemac1

Rural villages have the tidy towns

It's taken pretty seriously by some. The comm-ittttt-eeeeeeee would be putting out floral displays, painting walls and dropping letters in your door if they thought your place needed a lick of paint so get to it!

Local farmer being told to clean up the scrap in his yard. Of course scrap metal wasn't worth so much back then!

Local kids in the national school pressed into action to pick up litter.

I think our parish won it once but that was over 15 years ago


Anything similar in Dublin townlands?

hatrickpatrick

I live in Sandycove and it doesn't surprise me too much, particularly with the dog sh!te. Bins are fairly sparse along the seafront and those that are there just aren't emptied nearly often enough, most of them are practically always overflowing. There are a couple of solar compactors up near the Baths but in fairness I can understand why a lot of people at the other end of the green wouldn't be arsed walking that far to bin something because all the bins down that end have been full for 3 days and not emptied... Surely it costs the council the same amount in waste disposals that all their street cleaners have to do every morning so why the f*ck can't they just get their bins emptied more often or put in more of them?

kowloon

I live in a country area, people come out here to tip rubbish all the time. The hedgerows are covered in bits of litter that spread from the dumped piles of rubbish. It pisses me off no end. I also get angry when people don't pick up their empty shells and just leave them where they fall.

Legs.Eleven

I'm one of those busy bodies who likes to tap the person in question on the shoulder and hands it back to them back with a "'Scuse me, you've dropped something!" all nice as pie with a big, innocent smile I like to embarrass the fook out of them by showing them up. If this is how I am in my early 30s, I can't wait to see what a pain in the arse I'll be in my old age.

Reamer Fanny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmUFYQIG2I

daithi1970

That is if you get to live that long..
Youre dead right though, people who treat the earth as their own personal rubbish bin are selfish scumbags IMO.

Cosmicfox

A person I know does it all the time, tossing stuff out the window or just casually dropping it at her arse and when I asked her why she laughed and said it's ok to litter because it provides cleaners with a job.

CrazyRabbit

I've been hit by cigarette butts and a bottle which were tossed out driver side car windows. Not pleasant since I was driving a bike at the time.

But, the absolute worst I've seen was last July/August on Frederick Street in Dublin. Two slags pushing their babies along in buggies, and one of them stopped to changed the babies nappy in plain view of everyone passing by. When finished, they left the open & very dirty nappy on the ground along with a bottle of empty coke. There was a bin not too far away. I got an earful after asking them to use the bin. Absolute scum.

krazyklown

I think its shameful how littering is such a big problem in Ireland. Its so disheartening that people are so lazy and ignorant that they expect someone else should clean up their mess.

Last night I was picking up a group of friends and a taxi man waiting at the rank just fired his empty coffee cup out the window onto the street. It made me think about how best to tackle this problem. The most effective deterrent would obviously be the application of littering fines and it got me wondering would a scheme work whereby someone who records and reports a person littering could get a percentage of the fine. For example, if i set up a camera and record someone dumping and pass on the footage to the litter warden and a fine is successfully applied then i would get maybe 10% of the fine. It would give an incentive to people to become more vigilant and become proactive in eradicating the problem. With the availability of cctv and wireless cameras and phones there probably is a certain amount of littering/dumping being recorded already but no incentive for people to action on it.

Teagwee

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I live in Sandycove and it doesn't surprise me too much, particularly with the dog sh!te. Bins are fairly sparse along the seafront and those that are there just aren't emptied nearly often enough, most of them are practically always overflowing. There are a couple of solar compactors up near the Baths but in fairness I can understand why a lot of people at the other end of the green wouldn't be arsed walking that far to bin something because all the bins down that end have been full for 3 days and not emptied... Surely it costs the council the same amount in waste disposals that all their street cleaners have to do every morning so why the f*ck can't they just get their bins emptied more often or put in more of them?

There are a lot of isolated/rural/beach areas around the country that have no bins or cleaners and I wonder what the people who dump there think will happen to their rubbish after they've enjoyed a picnic or a walk? If everybody did as they did, no one would be able to enjoy these areas.

I've seen neatly wrapped dirty nappies, carefully packed bags of packaging and the 'strewn around' variety too on some of our most beautiful beaches - in all the little niches where people like to set themselves up for a day. Who do people think is going to go around every night and pick this stuff up so that someone else can enjoy the location on another day???

Why is it beyond contemplation to abide by the motto, If you took it with you, take it home! And that includes the dog-doo ...

AlekSmart

Cosmicfox wrote: »

A person I know does it all the time, tossing stuff out the window or just casually dropping it at her arse and when I asked her why she laughed and said it's ok to litter because it provides cleaners with a job.

Oh dear,I can see her point,however my experience tells a different tale...

One end of my route had for as long as I can recall a DCC Litter Bin at the terminus.

It was well used,by Bus passengers getting on/off,by drivers doing a clear-out,and it has to be said,by local deprived and misunderstood yoots wishing to set stuff ablaze....repeatedly :mad: then,of course those adult locals not wishing to purchase bin-tags ...:rolleyes:

Some 6 months ago,at the terminus I came upon a little group of DCC staff busy with angle-grinders and the likes.

I assumed that they were replacing the Bin with a larger one,or adding an extra one to cater for the usage.....but alas,I was informed that the DCC Cleaner whose route the bin was on had raised merry hell due to the overuse of the bin....the wrong kind of rubbish,if you like.

After an inspection by the Local Overseer,it was deemed appropriate to remove the bin in question.

So,in modern Irish mythology,there can indeed by such a thing as an Over-Used Litter Bin.

I suppose it goes some way towards explaining why I come across so many befuddled Germans these days...:o

Mince Pie

When I lived in the UK there were dog poo bins strategically scattered around a village where I lived. There was the odd person who didn't pick up but it was minimal compared to what I have found since moving back home. I am a dog owner myself and always make sure I pick up the poo but I find that when I eventually find a bin to dispose of it, it can tend to be overflowing and its not always convenient to take it home. As in, if I have driven somewhere nice like the beach for a day out. ( that's not to say I would ever dream of leaving it behind)
Another thing that has baffled me, bins are part of what you pay your council tax for in the UK and also the street cleaners.
I have been rather gobsmacked by the amount of tipping since I got home. There is a field beside where I live where I run my hound from time to time but it has all kinds of things just chucked over the walls from the estate on the other side. Anything from tyres, clothes airers, toilet seats, bikes to general waste.
I found someone had filled one of my own bins that I pay for with a black bin liner. It just takes the piss.

But I think when people are struggling with money and times are hard and you're trying to put food on the table I guess paying for a waste collection takes a hike.
I seriously think its a governmental issue. Its something I find upsetting seeing our lovely countryside just riddled like a tipp and getting people to pay for it is obviously not the answer judging by the attitudes shown with litter and more.

teacosy

I live about 300 m from a couple of newsagent type shops on a busy enough residential road. i generally pick up the few bits in front of my own house and the neighbours - not systematically, just whenever i can /whenever it needs to be done.

The litter further up nearer the shops has really gotten to me recently, so I've decided at the risk of looking like a bit of a nutter, to start picking up there too. I've done it a couple of times, and felt a bit self conscious, but fu*k it - i'm sick of whining about it when i walk back after buying milk in the shops.

So if the theory that "litter begets litter" is true, maybe i won't have any work left in a couple of months.

irish bloke

The worst I see for this are travellers.

They don't give a **** or even try to hide it which I find infuriating...

suicide_circus

people who litter are usually the same ones who deposit big phlemy gobs of snotty spit on public path ways. my favorite is walking on a beach in the evening after a sunny day and having to step over sh!te filled nappys. fooking dirtbirds.

kingtut

Those people are just as scummy as the people who go to the cinema and leave their rubbish behind! They provide bins for a reason !!

Yes the staff are there to help keep the place clean but that doesn't mean you have a right to be a dirty pig ! :mad:

Aglomerado

I've worked in a place where someone was bringing in in used nappies and stuffing them in the sanitary bins in the ladies' toilets. The contract cleaning firm who emptied them complained because it was causing havoc with their equipment. Some people are utter scum!

I also hate the deitritus that's seen in the early mornings outside fast food outlets. Bins are provided, but these mingers just feck their crap everywhere. Drunkenness should not be an excuse!

du Maurier

Ardent wrote: »

You wanna see Dublin 8 and The Coombe. The streets are full of rubbish blowing in the wind.

Sums up Dublin for me - a flithy city full of knackers.

I can second this tbh. There's a particular catchment area nearby where it accumulates. They don't give a f**k. As for your latter sentiment I'm beginning to actually see this - I felt I might be generalising, but it's very apparent and depressing. I find it difficult to refute an escalating abundance of these types.

I carried a watermelon

I live in north Dublin & a couple of years ago we had really nice weather over a bank holiday weekend. The town & beaches were packed. A lot of day-trippers etc.
Anyway the beach was left in a mess. Disposable BBQ's, crappy nappies, bags full of half eaten food, glass bottles just dumped on the grass, beer cans, it was absolutely disgusting. The are plenty of bins along the beach but some people were so bloody lazy they couldn't even pick up their rubbish and put it in the bin less than 10 metres away.
Also last year one of my daughters who was 2 at the time nearly stepped on a broken glass bottle that some fookin gobsh*ite left sticking up out of the soft sand.

NothingMan

kingtut wrote: »

Yes the staff are there to help keep the place clean but that doesn't mean you have a right to be a dirty pig ! :mad:

Honestly I leave my empty popcorn box and cup in the theatre when I leave. There may be bins in the common area but if even a fraction of the people in the theatre brought out their rubbish they'd be full in seconds and then what? My thought has always been the staff need to go in with the black sacks because they can then be disposed of more easily for everyone involved.

I do agree with all that's been said here, especially the cigarette butts. I know people who would be of the same mind about littering in general as people here that don't hesitate to throw a butt on the ground. It really is mind boggling and disgusting.

However, we have come a long way from when I was a kid say 20 odd years ago. Back then no one hesitated to toss a crisp packet or empty can and my area was riddled in litter. I really feel it is now the exception and not the norm and as far as people saying Dublin is just filthy that's just wrong. We may not be as tidy as some European cities but we are, for the most part, pretty good at cleaning up after ourselves these days despite the spots that let the side down.

wandatowell

People over filling the Tesco trolley bays so much so that cars cant pass really pushes my buttons.


Also the fact that the manager of the shop isnt on the ball and allows that to happen is annoying too

NothingMan

wandatowell wrote: »

People over filling the Tesco trolley bays so much so that cars cant pass really pushes my buttons.


Also the fact that the manager of the shop isnt on the ball and allows that to happen is annoying too

Unless the trolley is on a green belt or in a river it's not really littering though...

IK09

The new "bin it your way" ads make me wanna litter

hoodwinked

i once had an old woman come up to me and berate me for littering in the city center, i thought she was crazy tbh as i would never intentionally do such a thing, she told me to follow her back to the piece of paper i dropped and she'd prove it, turned out a €50 note fell out of my back pocket unbeknownst to me... :pac:

Vudgie

The fly-tipping issue is getting out of control in my view.

My local refuse centre will take the majority of the non-food waste you see thrown on roads, ditches, over fences near housing etc for free so in some cases it is just pure laziness.

2Mad2BeMad

funny thing is
for everyone complaining
you all have littered at least once in your life :L so were all going to hell and were all scumbags