Huge increase in rubbish along roads

beggars_bush · 31-12-2019 01:21PM #1

Has anyone noticed the huge increase in rubbish being strewn along the roads?
It doesn't matter if it is the motorway, national road or country lanes I see coffee cups, fast food snack boxes and cans of energy drinks chucked everywhere

It's gotten to epidemic levels along some of the roads I regularly use. And when the council trim the grass and shrubs it shows how bad the problem actually is.

I was out and about around Dublin before Christmas and I couldn't believe the amount of rubbish along back roads.

Who are these people who just chuck everything out of their car?

Thelonious Monk · 31-12-2019 01:23PM

Yes it's disgusting. Xmas and all the consumption and crap people by is making it worse this week. Bottles and bags of rubbish everywhere. At a park near my house people have left about 20 black bags of rubbish.
We really are filthy knackers in this country.

sk8erboii · 31-12-2019 01:38PM

Happens all the time this time of year.

_Kaiser_ · 31-12-2019 01:40PM

I don't disagree with either of the above but bin charges and recycling mandates aren't helping the situation.

Take myself (and before I continue, I've never dumped rubbish). I live alone and commute to work so I often eat in the office. I'm also away at least one day at the weekend.

I generate a standard black bag of rubbish roughly once a fortnight or slightly longer. The 2 local bin companies would want at least 30 a month for services I'd almost never use, and for 3 bins I'd have nowhere to put (no back garden)

So I bought a single wheelie bin for 25 quid and once I get to 4 bags they go into the boot and into a big yellow compactor at a petrol station. Costs 8 quid for 2 bags.

I'd say there's a lot of people like me, especially in apartments.

Guy:Incognito · 31-12-2019 01:40PM

beggars_bush wrote: »

Who are these people who just chuck everything out of their car?

Trying living near a food outlet of any sort. People are lazy ****ing scumbags,

McDonalds in the mill centre in Clondalkin is a dump for people. They get their food, go park and just **** it out the window.

The missus was walking across the car park the other day and a group of our ethnic nomadic cousins were standing at a car, throwing their empty mcdonalds cups under the cars around them. She had the utter cheek to glance over at them, only to be met with "who the **** does she think shes looking at, we'll throw our cups where we want"

It doesnt take much driving around clondalkin village to see people littering. People just drop it as they go.

sentient_6 · 31-12-2019 01:42PM

I haven't noticed an increase, its always been really bad!

Something i can't get over in the west is the apes that throw big bags of Supermacs rubbish straight out the car window in the middle of nowhere on rual roads.

Bob Harris · 31-12-2019 01:43PM

I was out for a run the other day along a road I normally drive along. Driving you don't notice much but walking/running you really notice the amount of crap. Bottles both plastic and glass, cans, bags, coffee cups and every type of crap you can imagine every few yards.

Filthy knackers is right.

anewme · 31-12-2019 01:43PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Trying living near a food outlet of any sort. People are lazy ****ing scumbags,

McDonalds in the mill centre in Clondalkin is a dump for people. They get their food, go park and just **** it out the window.

The missus was walking across the car park the other day and a group of our ethnic nomadic cousins were standing at a car, throwing their empty mcdonalds cups under the cars around them. She had the utter cheek to glance over at them, only to be met with "who the **** does she think shes looking at, we'll throw our cups where we want"

It doesnt take much driving around clondalkin village to see people littering. People just drop it as they go.

Yep, the place is manky. Drove past where the old happy brig pub used to be where the old back road is closed, the old road is just full of rubbish.

All along that Bawnogue road, theres random bags of rubbish.

Guy:Incognito · 31-12-2019 01:44PM

For anyone that doesnt know Clondalkin btw, the shopping centre is overlooked by the Garda station on the opposite side of the road, 20 metres away.

Ush1 · 31-12-2019 01:46PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Trying living near a food outlet of any sort. People are lazy ****ing scumbags,

McDonalds in the mill centre in Clondalkin is a dump for people. They get their food, go park and just **** it out the window.

The missus was walking across the car park the other day and a group of our ethnic nomadic cousins were standing at a car, throwing their empty mcdonalds cups under the cars around them. She had the utter cheek to glance over at them, only to be met with "who the **** does she think shes looking at, we'll throw our cups where we want"

It doesnt take much driving around clondalkin village to see people littering. People just drop it as they go.

Parts of Tallaght very similar.

RacoonQueen · 31-12-2019 01:50PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Trying living near a food outlet of any sort. People are lazy ****ing scumbags,

McDonalds in the mill centre in Clondalkin is a dump for people. They get their food, go park and just **** it out the window.

I never understand this. Why not...just leave it in your car and put it in the bin when you get home.

Guy:Incognito · 31-12-2019 01:52PM

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I never understand this. Why not...just leave it in your car and put it in the bin when you get home.

They dont even need to do that if they dont want to, theres bins in the carpark and in McDonalds.

phishcakes · 31-12-2019 01:52PM

Im really surprised incentivised recycling hasn’t been brought into this country on a large scale yet

A lot of other countries are doing this successfully with glass, aluminium cans etc..

Fr_Dougal · 31-12-2019 01:53PM

I was driving in Dublin recently, it was bin day after a very windy night and morning. I’d say half the bins were blown over and rubbish spilled out. On my way back, the bins had been emptied and taken in, but a lot of rubbish had been blown around on the street and into ditches.

That’s only one side of it, have also seen scum throw and drop their rubbish as they walk along, they couldn’t give a sh1t. Animals.

anewme · 31-12-2019 01:54PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

They dont even need to do that if they dont want to, theres bins in the carpark and in McDonalds.

I've seen people sitting in that car park, not travellers, sitting beside the bin, but opening their window and throwing the rubbish in the ground beside the bin.

X111111111111 · 31-12-2019 01:58PM

No to be honest if anything I've noticed less rubbish

smelly sock · 31-12-2019 02:00PM

Some **** left a bag of clothes beside a council bin on our main road. The clothes bank is located 200 yards away. Morons.

smelly sock · 31-12-2019 02:01PM

Whats the situation if you catch someone on your dash cam throwing fag butts out the window? Will the cops or litter warden issue a fine?

lucalux · 31-12-2019 02:04PM

Finding it bad alright but I've seen it for years around here.
Supermacs and coffee cups/cigarette packets, lucozade and packets of crisps is the usual. Sometimes cans of lager etc Obviously flinging it out the window over a mile or so. A long stream of blood-boiling ignorance if you're out on a nice countryside walk.

The other day, pulling into a space at a busy enough petrol station/supermacs, a car beside the space i was aiming for had rear passenger door open, i waited to see would they get in or out. A well dressed woman sitting in back of the car, maybe 50? She was putting all her supermacs rubbish beside the car on the ground. The driver i presumed was vaping at the kerb. Kids in the car too.

I watched her put the rubbish out onto the ground, then she noticed my car. Breezily picks it all back up. I would have said it to her had she not. Husband or whoever he was skedaddled away from the car seeing me watch this in amazement.

The bin was about 5feet away in full view of where she was sitting.
She wandered over with her head down and avoided looking in my direction as i parked. Put the rubbish in the bin. I felt like applauding her.

Scumbags in every socioeconomic 'class' I find.

Fizzlesque · 31-12-2019 02:29PM

While there are a lot of filth merchants who sneak out in the dead of night to dump bags of household waste, I've also noticed a lot of the public bins are being removed by the council and not replaced. At first, I thought they were going to be replaced with those Big Belly bins but no, just removed. Five bins have been removed on a stretch of road near me that leads to the park people walk their dogs in. Now the lovely wooden planters with flowers that Tidy Towns people put there to make the place look nice are regularly strewn with discarded bags of dog shyte that people don't want to carry till they get home.

Lots of bus stops near me with bins removed. Coffee cups, food wrappers, cigarette butts that would have gone into the bin now get dropped on the ground. Since the bin removal, those areas are ten times dirtier than they used to be.

Some people are just plain rancid though. In Dublin, you can dispose of a large bag of household waste at North Strand recycling depot for €4 but that's too much trouble for some. When the birds peck open the discarded bags of waste, and the contents begin their relocation around the roads and in people driveways, the contents are often a mixture of things that could be composted, things that could be recycled and general waste. Basically, these filthy specimens just don't care.

I would love to see their faces if someone knew their address and returned all their discarded rubbish in through their letter box. Slimy banana skins and left over dinner mixed with ashtray dirt sliding down the inside of their front door onto the floor. It's little daydreams like this that keep me sane whenever I see yet another bag of rubbish left on the side of the road by yet another rancid skank.

RacoonQueen · 31-12-2019 02:32PM

Bins being removed is no excuse to litter. People have bins at home, the can bring their rubbish back there.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-12-2019 02:33PM

I do a litter pick along our rural road - both side of a 1 mile stretch. While I'll easily fill a couple of large bags once a fortnight, and it's takeaways, plastic bottle, glass and cans mostly, the level of littering has reduced a bit on five years ago.

We need a deposit scheme on bottles of all types and cans.

The most annoying is bags of tins and packaging, which is obviously household waste as opposed to general littering, but, thankfully, it's not too common.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-12-2019 02:34PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Whats the situation if you catch someone on your dash cam throwing fag butts out the window? Will the cops or litter warden issue a fine?

Here the council litter wardens will issue a fine, if you show them the evidence.

Fizzlesque · 31-12-2019 02:36PM

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Bins being removed is no excuse to litter. People have bins at home, the can bring their rubbish back there.

I agree. But a lot of people who don't want to carry an empty coffee cup or drinks can or sandwich wrapper with them would put them in the bin if there was a bin. Better to have the bins than to try teach fools not to litter.

smelly sock · 31-12-2019 02:37PM

Phillip Abundant Soreness wrote: »

I do a litter pick along our rural road - both side of a 1 mile stretch. While I'll easily fill a couple of large bags once a fortnight, and it's takeaways, plastic bottle, glass and cans mostly, the level of littering has reduced a bit on five years ago.

We need a deposit scheme on bottles of all types and cans.

The most annoying is bags of tins and packaging, which is obviously household waste as opposed to general littering, but, thankfully, it's not too common.

We need laws enforced and scumbags named and shamed. If they are caught they should be fined and made wear distinctive clothing while cleaning areas so people will know exactly what they have done. If they refuse they should be jailed for a period until they decide to do it.

smelly sock · 31-12-2019 02:40PM

Fizzlesque wrote: »

While there are a lot of filth merchants who sneak out in the dead of night to dump bags of household waste, I've also noticed a lot of the public bins are being removed by the council and not replaced. At first, I thought they were going to be replaced with those Big Belly bins but no, just removed. Five bins have been removed on a stretch of road near me that leads to the park people walk their dogs in. Now the lovely wooden planters with flowers that Tidy Towns people put there to make the place look nice are regularly strewn with discarded bags of dog shyte that people don't want to carry till they get home.

Lots of bus stops near me with bins removed. Coffee cups, food wrappers, cigarette butts that would have gone into the bin now get dropped on the ground. Since the bin removal, those areas are ten times dirtier than they used to be.

Some people are just plain rancid though. In Dublin, you can dispose of a large bag of household waste at North Strand recycling depot for €4 but that's too much trouble for some. When the birds peck open the discarded bags of waste, and the contents begin their relocation around the roads and in people driveways, the contents are often a mixture of things that could be composted, things that could be recycled and general waste. Basically, these filthy specimens just don't care.

I would love to see their faces if someone knew their address and returned all their discarded rubbish in through their letter box. Slimy banana skins and left over dinner mixed with ashtray dirt sliding down the inside of their front door onto the floor. It's little daydreams like this that keep me sane whenever I see yet another bag of rubbish left on the side of the road by yet another rancid skank.

Dont forget the used sanitary towels / tampons and the dirty nappies. Pure scum. Usually the people who pay for nothing but its across all walks of society.

Guy:Incognito · 31-12-2019 02:40PM

Fizzlesque wrote: »

I agree. But a lot of people who don't want to carry an empty coffee cup or drinks can or sandwich wrapper with them would put them in the bin if there was a bin. Better to have the bins than to try teach fools not to litter.

Anyone who throws the cup on the ground because there isnt a bin is a scumbag and would litter somewhere at some stage. There isnt going to be a bin everywhere.

elperello · 31-12-2019 02:42PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I don't disagree with either of the above but bin charges and recycling mandates aren't helping the situation.

Take myself (and before I continue, I've never dumped rubbish). I live alone and commute to work so I often eat in the office. I'm also away at least one day at the weekend.

I generate a standard black bag of rubbish roughly once a fortnight or slightly longer. The 2 local bin companies would want at least 30 a month for services I'd almost never use, and for 3 bins I'd have nowhere to put (no back garden)

So I bought a single wheelie bin for 25 quid and once I get to 4 bags they go into the boot and into a big yellow compactor at a petrol station. Costs 8 quid for 2 bags.

I'd say there's a lot of people like me, especially in apartments.

You have a good system. The wheelie bin keeps everything tidy until you have a load to go in car.
A lot of people in apartments or duplexes have difficulty controlling who uses the bins.

Where is that compactor at petrol station? I thought they had all been removed. (understand if you don't want to give location).

Agree with other posters about deposit scheme, we are way past the talking about it stage. Government should ignore the business lobby and introduce it.

mojesius · 31-12-2019 02:45PM

I was walking my dog up by Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park a while back and saw a car pull up at the small car park, three kids get out with black bags of rubbish and just dump them beside the bin.Tried to run down the hill to catch the reg but the Dad sped off as soon as the kids were back in the car. Some example being set there! Car wasn't an aul banger either, so looked like Dad could well afford bin charges.

The fella who took this video from 2019 is my hero [Disclaimer: Colourful language alert]. Fcuking asshole dumping his crap in the bog :pac:

Fizzlesque · 31-12-2019 02:50PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Anyone who throws the cup on the ground because there isnt a bin is a scumbag and would litter somewhere at some stage. There isnt going to be a bin everywhere.

True. Somehow I think these people are telling themselves they're not littering because the cups are placed, upright on the wall instead of thrown on the ground. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending these people but I have noticed the amount of rubbish has increased since the bins at bus stops were removed.

HildaOgdenx · 31-12-2019 02:56PM

I was walking out of a shopping centre recently, and a woman with two small children was standing by the door, chatting to another woman. The children were opening sweets or bars and dropping the papers straight onto the ground. There was a large very noticeable rubbish bin right in front of them. In fact the second woman was standing right beside the damn thing.

I have seen, as described in previous posts, people throwing stuff out of the window of their car, near fast food places. There's no excuse for it. And it's not confined to any particular type of person, in my opinion.
I travel by bus a bit, and am always appalled at people waiting at stops, when they see the bus approaching, they fling cigarette butts to the ground. Oftentimes when there is a bin there right beside them.

I think littering is a growing problem, and I honestly don't know what the solution is.

Huge increase in rubbish along roads

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