Why can't foreign people put their beer cans into recycling bins?

zcorpian88

Right I just want to rant about something that I'm seeing a lot of lately, I've seen this a couple of times and I've spotted it again last night while recycling some beer cans after a get together I was at.

Was on the way home and a stopped by a local supermarket where there are a load of containers for recycling, it was about 1am, I was approaching with a my bagpack of empty cans, when a guy in a left hand drive car with a Poland registration gets out of his car drops 2 knotted plastic bags full of odd named beer cans in front of the container and gets in his car and drives off.

I see this fairly frequently at recycling areas and drives me mad, and it's more often than not our Eastern European counterparts that do it, I seem to be there at the right time just as the f**ker is jumping in his car, if you're going to make the journey down with the beer cans, put the cans into the bin instead of dumping them there in front of it, they are their responsibility, not for someone else to pick up after you, the bins weren't even full.

Takes an Irishman to do a task properly so I put the cans in rather than attract vermin, the bag also contained some empty odd brand cigarette boxes and ashes and fag butts, was fairly rank and I tossed them into another bin nearby.

Probably coming across as a bit of a racist but I'm seeing it the whole time, what makes people so special where they don't have to put their own rubbish in the bin and the next best thing is dumping it in front of it? Do they believe in the rubbish fairy that picks up your dirt as soon as you half arse your drop off?

Anyone else see the same stuff out there? Hate when people half arse simple tasks.

osarusan

Where I live, bins are included in the rent so there are a number of communal dumpster bins - some for normal waste, some for recyclables. Glass not included as there's a bottle bank a two minute walk away.

Bins are full of all manner of crap. Bottles everywhere. Recyclable plastic in the normal waste bins. Cans in the normal waste bins. Dirty nappies in the recycling bins.

People couldn't give a f**k, just throw it wherever. Irish people, by and large, doing it.

Herb Powell

If you think this is the sole preserve of foreigners, you're deluded. Irish people are shocking in this regard.

somefeen

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Right I just want to rant about something that I'm seeing a lot of lately, I've seen this a couple of times and I've spotted it again last night while recycling some beer cans after a get together I was at.

Was on the way home and a stopped by a local supermarket where there are a load of containers for recycling, it was about 1am, I was approaching with a my bagpack of empty cans, when a guy in a left hand drive car with a Poland registration gets out of his car drops 2 knotted plastic bags full of odd named beer cans in front of the container and gets in his car and drives off.

I see this fairly frequently at recycling areas and drives me mad, and it's more often than not our Eastern European counterparts that do it, I seem to be there at the right time just as the f**ker is jumping in his car, if you're going to make the journey down with the beer cans, put the cans into the bin instead of dumping them there in front of it, they are their responsibility, not for someone else to pick up after you, the bins weren't even full.

Takes an Irishman to do a task properly so I put the cans in rather than attract vermin, the bag also contained some empty odd brand cigarette boxes and ashes and fag butts, was fairly rank and I tossed them into another bin nearby.

Probably coming across as a bit of a racist but I'm seeing it the whole time, what makes people so special where they don't have to put their own rubbish in the bin and the next best thing is dumping it in front of it? Do they believe in the rubbish fairy that picks up your dirt as soon as you half arse your drop off?

Anyone else see the same stuff out there? Hate when people half arse simple tasks.

.....Who are you?

Slicemeister

Is it foreign branded beer cans leading you this deduction Watson?

YellowSheep

OMG......I put white bottles into the green bottle bin. 😈

zcorpian88

somefeen wrote: »

.....Who are you?

I know, I know....but it's an eyesore and it'll attract vermin, kids play nearby the area so I just put them in while somewhat drunkenly mumbling to myself.

Stojkovic

Slicemeister wrote: »

Is it foreign branded beer cans leading you this deduction Watson?

No.

He drove an Audi.

Polskis love their Audis.

Mint Aero

Irish people must be one of the best in the world at recycling imo. Normal joe soaps here like, not talking about your scummer types.

zcorpian88

Slicemeister wrote: »

Is it foreign branded beer cans leading you this deduction Watson?

He had a left hand drive, Poland registered car, seen his plate, that and the foreign branded beer cans and cigarettes I took it he's not from here.

hfallada

Herb Powell wrote: »

If you think this is the sole preserve of foreigners, you're deluded. Irish people are shocking in this regard.

Go to Germany and the countryside is spotless. Their parks are always clean and the public transport isnt covered in banana peels like Dublin Bus. Germans clean up after themselves, which Irish rarely though. Irish peoples answer to it, is that its the councils/someones job to clean up after them. Germans dont eat on public transport and use bins. Irish people tend to dump anything, anywhere even if there is a bin beside them

An Ryanair air hostess told me Irish are dirtiest on the planes. She said you ask people for their rubbish at the end of the flight and its not uncommon for the Irish to throw their rubbish on the floor in front of you.

zcorpian88

Stojkovic wrote: »

No.

He drove an Audi.

Polskis love their Audis.

IT ACTUALLY WAS AN AUDI AND ALL! haha was a bit of a rustbucket.

metrosity

zcorpian88 wrote: »

He had a left hand drive, Poland registered car, seen his plate, that and the foreign branded beer cans and cigarettes I took it he's not from here.

Careful now zscorpian. You'll be branded as a racist for showing any concern for your native people and their country (that they're being usurped from..)!

LionelNashe

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Right I just want to rant about something that I'm seeing a lot of lately, I've seen this a couple of times and I've spotted it again last night while recycling some beer cans after a get together I was at.

Was on the way home and a stopped by a local supermarket where there are a load of containers for recycling, it was about 1am, I was approaching with a my bagpack of empty cans, when a guy in a left hand drive car with a Poland registration gets out of his car drops 2 knotted plastic bags full of odd named beer cans in front of the container and gets in his car and drives off.

I see this fairly frequently at recycling areas and drives me mad, and it's more often than not our Eastern European counterparts that do it, I seem to be there at the right time just as the f**ker is jumping in his car, if you're going to make the journey down with the beer cans, put the cans into the bin instead of dumping them there in front of it, they are their responsibility, not for someone else to pick up after you, the bins weren't even full.

Takes an Irishman to do a task properly so I put the cans in rather than attract vermin, the bag also contained some empty odd brand cigarette boxes and ashes and fag butts, was fairly rank and I tossed them into another bin nearby.

Probably coming across as a bit of a racist but I'm seeing it the whole time, what makes people so special where they don't have to put their own rubbish in the bin and the next best thing is dumping it in front of it? Do they believe in the rubbish fairy that picks up your dirt as soon as you half arse your drop off?

Anyone else see the same stuff out there? Hate when people half arse simple tasks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Greenmachine

osarusan wrote: »

Where I live, bins are included in the rent so there are a number of communal dumpster bins - some for normal waste, some for recyclables. Glass not included as there's a bottle bank a two minute walk away.

Bins are full of all manner of crap. Bottles everywhere. Recyclable plastic in the normal waste bins. Cans in the normal waste bins. Dirty nappies in the recycling bins.

People couldn't give a f**k, just throw it wherever. Irish people, by and arge, doing it.

I have bins included in my rent, specifically mentioned in my lease, a big commercial dumpster. When I had my car I separated my recyclables and took them to the recycle boxes. Without the car it is not practical, so they just go in the normal trash. If I had a separate bin, I would still recycle.

Was reading something recently about dumped recyclable electronics in the uk, apparently there is £36 billion worth of recoverable gold, from incorrectly disposed of electronics in the UK. Bizarre that there isn't money in offering a doorstep service, for collecting said recyclables a leaflet drop in an area every 3-6 months announcing a pending collection. Householder could free text an opt in number, if they have something they would like collected.
Send a white man around to collect = profit, and a cleaner environment.

Streetwalker

Because they too busy eating swans.

Harry Palmr

Greenmachine wrote: »

Send a white man around to collect = profit, and a cleaner environment.

Racist!

Streetwalker

Mint Aero wrote: »

Irish people must be one of the best in the world at recycling imo. Normal joe soaps here like, not talking about your scummer types.

Yeah politicians be crap at recycling alright.

MathDebater

hfallada wrote: »

Go to Germany and the countryside is spotless. Their parks are always clean and the public transport isnt covered in banana peels like Dublin Bus. Germans clean up after themselves, which Irish rarely though. Irish peoples answer to it, is that its the councils/someones job to clean up after them. Germans dont eat on public transport and use bins. Irish people tend to dump anything, anywhere even if there is a bin beside them

Ever been to east Germany? It's a dump.

An Ryanair air hostess told me Irish are dirtiest on the planes. She said you ask people for their rubbish at the end of the flight and its not uncommon for the Irish to throw their rubbish on the floor in front of you.

Sure it's not, Ted.

mal1

Similarly foreign dogs are always crapping all over the streets. I've yet to see an Irish settler sh1t in public.

Pinch Flat

Irish people are some of the mankiest on the planet. Go into our countryside and you'll see - or are all these fly tipping incidences by foreigners?

Massimo Cassagrande

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Irish people are some of the mankiest on the planet. Go into our countryside and you'll see - or are all these fly tipping incidences by foreigners?

You need to travel more. Seriously. Pop over to India or have a spin around Naples. You'll arrive back all new and refreshed.

Herb Powell

hfallada wrote: »

Go to Germany and the countryside is spotless. Their parks are always clean and the public transport isnt covered in banana peels like Dublin Bus. Germans clean up after themselves, which Irish rarely though. Irish peoples answer to it, is that its the councils/someones job to clean up after them. Germans dont eat on public transport and use bins. Irish people tend to dump anything, anywhere even if there is a bin beside them

An Ryanair air hostess told me Irish are dirtiest on the planes. She said you ask people for their rubbish at the end of the flight and its not uncommon for the Irish to throw their rubbish on the floor in front of you.

MathDebater wrote: »

Ever been to east Germany? It's a dump.

No it's not, I lived there and the difference between there and here is amazing. Of course you'll still find litter, but the sheer amount of it in Ireland is crazy. There really is no comparison. Even the places you might expect to bad, ie. universities are extremely tidy compared to those in Ireland. I was shocked for a while after coming back. The party spots in Berlin can get pretty dirty of course, but that comes with the territory, and I'd put good money on the most of that rubbish coming from non-Germans. Literally the only time I've seen worse littering than what you'd see on an average night out here was when they won the world cup.

Recycling is also important in Germany. You have to seperate your household rubbish, otherwise the house-owner (and eventually you, when they catch you flaking everything into the one bin!) is liable to be fined. Proper order imo.

I'm not trying to say the Germans are perfect or whatever, but hfallda is spot-on, they seem to get this right, whatever it is they're doing. The deposits on bottles and cans is definitely something that should be implemented everywhere, imo.

jam_mac_jam

hfallada wrote: »

Go to Germany and the countryside is spotless. Their parks are always clean and the public transport isnt covered in banana peels like Dublin Bus. Germans clean up after themselves, which Irish rarely though. Irish peoples answer to it, is that its the councils/someones job to clean up after them. Germans dont eat on public transport and use bins. Irish people tend to dump anything, anywhere even if there is a bin beside them

An Ryanair air hostess told me Irish are dirtiest on the planes. She said you ask people for their rubbish at the end of the flight and its not uncommon for the Irish to throw their rubbish on the floor in front of you.

Yes, I have been to Germany and the back of my friend's apartment building is full of broken glass as there is a club there and people seem to just **** glass on the ground. Plenty of Irish people clean up after themselves and recycle and I am sure there are one or two bad Germans in the whole country too.

I really don't understand this self hating Irish thing of everything in Germany is heaven and everything in Ireland is just ****. Oh yes one Ryanair hostess clearly proves beyond all doubt we are complete dirty pigs.

kneemos

Used to be a lad locally that made his living from picking up cans.
Quite a few years ago now,don't know what became of him but he didn't claim social or anything.
Done himself out of a job maybe.

Bit of a catch22 that I think of it.

Massimo Cassagrande

kneemos wrote: »

Used to be a lad locally that made his living from picking up cans.
Quite a few years ago now,don't know what became of him but he didn't claim social or anything.
Done himself out of a job maybe.

Bit of a catch22 that I think of it.

Monty Burns?

Luke92

Its always the same in AH. Someging like this pops up and brings out the self hatred brigade!

Sure the Irish are the dirtiest people of the world. Never pick up after ourselves.

Everywhere and everyone else are much cleaner than us Irish. Dirty nomads we are.

Drag00n79

OP, why didn't you say something to him instead of coming on here giving out about it?

Pinch Flat

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

You need to travel more. Seriously. Pop over to India or have a spin around Naples. You'll arrive back all new and refreshed.

How do you know where I have / haven't been? You don't need to travel that far to see filth - plenty of it on our own door step. Granted not on a scale of developing countries, but not far off in places.

We have a terrible attitude to our environment here. Local housing estate near me backs on to a park - the locals have taken to tipping their rubbish over the back wall into the park. The council try to keep up with it but it's a losing battle - rubbish and rats galore.

Watch the state of our beaches in good weather, no beauty spot is complete with out a dumped matrass or TV. The amount of coffee cups, plastic bottles, junk food wrappers and other detritus dumped from passing cars is everywhere. Our local park has a serious rat infestation back again - too much hassle obviously to use the few bins provided at the spar and chipper especially. So half eaten food and chicken bones becoming great for enticing the problem back.

Took a trip up the Conor Pass in Kerry last year - greeted by a black bin liner of ****ty nappys some scobe had dropped off there.

Next time your passing a canal in Dublin - have a look in. Or at low tide in the Liffey at Heuston especially.

Yeah travelled a bit and have to say were up there with the mankiest - certainly in the EU anyway

Herb Powell

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Yes, I have been to Germany and the back of my friend's apartment building is full of broken glass as there is a club there and people seem to just **** glass on the ground. Plenty of Irish people clean up after themselves and recycle and I am sure there are one or two bad Germans in the whole country too.

I really don't understand this self hating Irish thing of everything in Germany is heaven and everything in Ireland is just ****. Oh yes one Ryanair hostess clearly proves beyond all doubt we are complete dirty pigs.

It's not self-loathing though (I hate that nonsense, you'll see from my posts), it's an honest observation. Whatever it is about their practices, this one particular aspect of Germany is better than Ireland. Nowhere is perfect, but they are doing this right. It's ok to acknowledge this.

evolving_doors

YellowSheep wrote: »

OMG......I put white bottles into the green bottle bin. 😈

Your ok itll have no effect., itd be worse if you put the green into the white. Same as its ok to mix yer whites with colourds but not colourds with whites... btw thats laundry im talking about you racists.

kneemos

Luke92 wrote: »

Its always the same in AH. Someging like this pops up and brings out the self hatred brigade!

Sure the Irish are the dirtiest people of the world. Never pick up after ourselves.

Everywhere and everyone else are much cleaner than us Irish. Dirty nomads we are.

Regardless of anywhere else you only have to look around to see the place is a tip.

Egginacup

hfallada wrote: »

Go to Germany and the countryside is spotless. Their parks are always clean and the public transport isnt covered in banana peels like Dublin Bus. Germans clean up after themselves, which Irish rarely though. Irish peoples answer to it, is that its the councils/someones job to clean up after them. Germans dont eat on public transport and use bins. Irish people tend to dump anything, anywhere even if there is a bin beside them

An Ryanair air hostess told me Irish are dirtiest on the planes. She said you ask people for their rubbish at the end of the flight and its not uncommon for the Irish to throw their rubbish on the floor in front of you.

You're so right. The Irish are filthy scum and the Germans are to be admired.

Maybe the Irish earned the right to be a bunch of messy cnuts while the glorious Germans are still "following orders".

Pinch Flat

Herb Powell wrote: »

It's not self-loathing though (I hate that nonsense, you'll see from my posts), it's an honest observation. Whatever it is about their practices, this one particular aspect of Germany is better than Ireland. Nowhere is perfect, but they are doing this right. It's ok to acknowledge this.

I agree with that as well - lived there for a while and when it comes to general respect for their surroundings they're streets ahead

coolbeans

Egginacup wrote: »

You're so right. The Irish are filthy scum and the Germans are to be admired.

Maybe the Irish earned the right to be a bunch of messy cnuts while the glorious Germans are still "following orders".

Don't act so butthurt and whiney . If more Irish people took their heads out of the sand and looked around at the litter maybe something could be done about it. That's not gonna happen as long as people respond just like you have in the above post.

Egginacup

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Right I just want to rant about something that I'm seeing a lot of lately, I've seen this a couple of times and I've spotted it again last night while recycling some beer cans after a get together I was at.

Was on the way home and a stopped by a local supermarket where there are a load of containers for recycling, it was about 1am, I was approaching with a my bagpack of empty cans, when a guy in a left hand drive car with a Poland registration gets out of his car drops 2 knotted plastic bags full of odd named beer cans in front of the container and gets in his car and drives off.

I see this fairly frequently at recycling areas and drives me mad, and it's more often than not our Eastern European counterparts that do it, I seem to be there at the right time just as the f**ker is jumping in his car, if you're going to make the journey down with the beer cans, put the cans into the bin instead of dumping them there in front of it, they are their responsibility, not for someone else to pick up after you, the bins weren't even full.

Takes an Irishman to do a task properly so I put the cans in rather than attract vermin, the bag also contained some empty odd brand cigarette boxes and ashes and fag butts, was fairly rank and I tossed them into another bin nearby.

Probably coming across as a bit of a racist but I'm seeing it the whole time, what makes people so special where they don't have to put their own rubbish in the bin and the next best thing is dumping it in front of it? Do they believe in the rubbish fairy that picks up your dirt as soon as you half arse your drop off?

Anyone else see the same stuff out there? Hate when people half arse simple tasks.

Bet you wouldn't have been ranting thus had an ice-blue eyed, blonde Polish Tatiana gotten out of the car and threw her bag of cans there.

You probably would have posted: "Why are Irish women such sloppy skangers who dump their beer cans in the green while Polish women have the decency to drop them off at the recycle bins?"

:pac:

crockholm

Irish people are progressing in the cleaner Environment stakes imo,streets and country roads were a lot dirtier 20 years ago,more people involved in cleaning up and tidy Town initiaves too,so....to quote the Bard..."A lot done,a lot more to do"-but at least we are on the right track.

P.S.- Put a return of 10c on bottles and cans and Watch the problem of those being solved,other countries do it,we really,really should too.

Tarzana2

hfallada wrote: »

Go to Germany and the countryside is spotless. Their parks are always clean and the public transport isnt covered in banana peels like Dublin Bus. Germans clean up after themselves, which Irish rarely though. Irish peoples answer to it, is that its the councils/someones job to clean up after them. Germans dont eat on public transport and use bins. Irish people tend to dump anything, anywhere even if there is a bin beside them

When will boards.ie get off Germany's dick?

Vincent Vega

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Irish people are some of the mankiest on the planet. Go into our countryside and you'll see - or are all these fly tipping incidences by foreigners?

You need to travel more. Seriously. Pop over to India or have a spin around Naples. You'll arrive back all new and refreshed.

Not sure about India but to be fair, the situation in Napoli is not really comparable, seeing as the residents themselves could hardly be held culpable.

Naples waste management issue

somefeen

Pinch Flat wrote: »

How do you know where I have / haven't been? You don't need to travel that far to see filth - plenty of it on our own door step. Granted not on a scale of developing countries, but not far off in places.

We have a terrible attitude to our environment here. Local housing estate near me backs on to a park - the locals have taken to tipping their rubbish over the back wall into the park. The council try to keep up with it but it's a losing battle - rubbish and rats galore.

Watch the state of our beaches in good weather, no beauty spot is complete with out a dumped matrass or TV. The amount of coffee cups, plastic bottles, junk food wrappers and other detritus dumped from passing cars is everywhere. Our local park has a serious rat infestation back again - too much hassle obviously to use the few bins provided at the spar and chipper especially. So half eaten food and chicken bones becoming great for enticing the problem back.

Took a trip up the Conor Pass in Kerry last year - greeted by a black bin liner of ****ty nappys some scobe had dropped off there.

Next time your passing a canal in Dublin - have a look in. Or at low tide in the Liffey at Heuston especially.

Yeah travelled a bit and have to say were up there with the mankiest - certainly in the EU anyway

G'way. You seen the state of France?

JuliusCaesar

It's plastic bottles that make an awful lot of litter in the parks and other walking/running spots in Dublin.


I'm surprised we didn't all die of dehydration before reproducing, seeing we had no plastic bottles to be constantly sucking out of, and used to laugh at Continentals buying bottles of the stuff that we got free from the tap.

Still obviously the youth nowadays have nothing like our stamina.

Eugene Norman

My guess on Ireland is this. 90% compliant and good at recycling. 10% scummers. That 10% is divided between urban and rural, with the country farmer being the worst offender.

Eugene Norman

Luke92 wrote: »

Its always the same in AH. Someging like this pops up and brings out the self hatred brigade!

Sure the Irish are the dirtiest people of the world. Never pick up after ourselves.

Everywhere and everyone else are much cleaner than us Irish. Dirty nomads we are.

Generally the same idiots. That said I don't find Eastern Europeans wasteful either. The OP poisoned the well.

Chloris

Going back to what people were saying about bins and people from other countries, we have two Polish couples living in the apartments above ours and both are incapable of using the bins correctly. I just don't get it at all. The most recent thing is that they've dumped a manky Christmas tree beside them and it's been there for over three weeks now. I don't want to be a d1ck about it but if they don't remove it after the next bin collection then I'll have to go up and tell them they have to bring it to the dump.

The first week they moved in, they had a lot of cardboard from boxes they'd brought. Rather than fill the recycling bin and keep the rest until the next collection, they filled both bins (not collapsing any of it to save space) and dumped the remaining cardboard outside, leaving it to rot over the course of the following three weeks of winter rain. I was the one who eventually squashed it up and disposed of it.

They constantly use bags in the recycling and food bins which you can't see into and that results in the bins not being collected on at least five occasions. I even wrote a polite note and stuck it on the front door when the bin went uncollected for four weeks once. Likewise, they put glass visibly in the regular waste bin and there have been loads of weeks that hasn't been collected too. The bins fill up in about two days because they don't push the bags down or squash up their cardboard.

Both couples somehow produce about three times more of every type of waste than we do. No sooner is the bin emptied than there are three new bags in it. We dispose of a black bag about every ten days, both couples upstairs go through two minimum in that time. Then when the bins are full, they'll continue to pile stuff on top. The lid is cracked on the waste bin from trying to close it when it's over full, meaning that in summer, you can smell it even when it's closed.

I just don't even intervene in their crap anymore, I'm sick of it. It's not a complicated thing to dispose of your rubbish, but they manage to just completely and spectacularly fail. Idiots.

efb

Are EU migrants giving Middle Ireland Cancer?
(By not recycling)

Heckler

Whatever about people bringing bags of cans or bottles to a recycling center and leaving them there (if the bins are full), personally I'd bring them home and come back the next day but maybe they travel a distance to try to do the right thing and can't come back.

What I hate is the tight basteards who stop at the side of a dual carrigeway/motorway and chuck black sacks full of rubbish into the side of the road. Presumably to save on refuse charges.

And people who throw cigarette butts out the window. I'm a smoker. The car has an ashtray. Put your butt out in it.

Massimo Cassagrande

Ireland Ranks as the worlds 7th cleanest Country on the "least Littered Scale". So, Unless the World has suddenly shrunk, and there are now only 8 countries...we're a tidy bunch in the big Global picture. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, NZ, Canada and Australia are ahead of us....

Take a Bow Ireland - as someone else said, Lots done, More to do.

If there were more bins available for public use, we'd probably romp up into third or fourth..

Pinch Flat

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

Ireland Ranks as the worlds 7th cleanest Country on the "least Littered Scale". So, Unless the World has suddenly shrunk, and there are now only 8 countries...we're a tidy bunch in the big Global picture. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, NZ, Canada and Australia are ahead of us....

Take a Bow Ireland - as someone else said, Lots done, More to do.

If there were more bins available for public use, we'd probably romp up into third or fourth..

I agree with crockholm that things are getting better. Maybe it's just me and my over critical eye. Small things like the state of cinemas after a movie is over, or things like this http://www.herald.ie/news/litter-patrols-on-citys-beaches-to-be-stepped-up-30385030.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/roads-to-dublin-airport-spoiled-by-litter-survey-finds-1.525665 (This has improved)

get my goat up

More bins maybe - but also the servicing that goes behind them, making sure they're not overflowing and that rubbish doesn't accumulate beside them. In saying that, I've seen many situations where people will happily walk out of a shop and discard a cigarette or sweet wrapper on the ground, without a second thought, in many instances having just passed a bin.

NS77

Luke92 wrote: »

Its always the same in AH. Someging like this pops up and brings out the self hatred brigade!

Sure the Irish are the dirtiest people of the world. Never pick up after ourselves.

Everywhere and everyone else are much cleaner than us Irish. Dirty nomads we are.

It's always the same in AH. Someone posts about how the country they love is being adversely affected in some manner-or-other and brings out the "..ah shure it's grand" brigade!

Eugene Norman

NS77 wrote: »

It's always the same in AH. Someone posts about how the country they love is being adversely affected in some manner-or-other and brings out the "..ah shure it's grand" brigade!

And then someone brings out statistics and we are not that dirty.

Not that we should rest on our laurels. One of the main reasons I think Ireland is cleaner now than it used to be is the drop in smokers. A work colleague of mine is a smoker and when we go out to lunch he still will drop his butt on the ground. Nothing else you can do I suppose, however that adds to the dirtiness of the pavement, and if thats dirty with enough cigarette butts you may as well drop your yorkie packaging, or spit out your chewing gum, or whatever.

Eugene Norman

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

Ireland Ranks as the worlds 7th cleanest Country on the "least Littered Scale". So, Unless the World has suddenly shrunk, and there are now only 8 countries...we're a tidy bunch in the big Global picture. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, NZ, Canada and Australia are ahead of us....

Take a Bow Ireland - as someone else said, Lots done, More to do.

If there were more bins available for public use, we'd probably romp up into third or fourth..

So you have a source for that, a google search of "least Littered Scale" gets this thread.