the irish & litter

curlymo wrote: »

Love going to the cinema. Its a great way of relaxing. After enjoying a good film I get really upset leaving the cinema when I see the amount of empty cartons of popcorn, drinks etc that people "mostly adults" leave behind. It really bugs me. Last May I went to the cinema with some friends and low and behold one of the girls left her empty drink cup behind. I told her in a nice way to take it with her and put it in bin. Well I started on her about the mentality of people that they feel they can afford to leave rubbish behind as there is always someone else to pick up after them. Thats why our county is so littered with likeminded people. Her answer to me which was quite funny was. We had been out for a meal earlier and her answer was "Do you want me to go back to the restaurant and clear the table as well".

bbam wrote: »

Wow.
Thats an awful post.
People act like pigs in cinemas, on that thinking isn't it Iok to litter everywhere as someone is paid to clean up. Parents shouldn't allow children to just throw their crap round in the cinema just because there is a team paid to tidy it up. I have a number of teams who work on litter duties in towns and it's disgraceful the way people think littering and dog fouling is acceptable. Maybe if you brought your litter to the bin it wouldn't cost a fortune to actually go to the cinema.
Its a shame on any person who thinks its acceptable to litter anywhere and more of an effort should be made to hold people to account.

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I live in a pretty underpriveleged part of London, even walking through the roughest estate nearby it's spotless. I don't know if that's down to the council or the people but parts of Dublin are just disgusting.

Jeremy Paxman has attacked the "uglification" of Britain's streets and warned that the country's litter problem is spiralling out of control.
The Newsnight presenter, who criticised the BBC in January for having a "hypocritical stance" on the issue of climate change, furthered his green credentials today with a call for a "national spring clean".
In an article for the Guardian, Mr Paxman, 56, saves his most damning indictment for Chancellor Gordon Brown, criticising him for "posing as an environmentalist". He writes: "Here is a man whose memorial should be built of discarded supermarketbags." Mr Paxman speaks of his dismay at the litter he saw on a country road, saying he counted more than 100 items including sandwich wrappers, crisp packets and plastic bottles.
He says: "We are no longer a green and pleasant land spotted with filthy places. We are a filthy island in which there is an occasional oasis of cleanliness.
"People, like animals, do not generally foul their own nests. But they feel free to throw rubbish around for much the same reason morons feel entitled to vandalise bus shelters, smash park benches or use telephone boxes as urinals: they do not feel the public realm is theirs."
Mr Paxman attacks Blairism for "doing nothing to dim the obsession with signifiers of success" and argues the Government has not spent enough on litter removal.
"Since no government - national or local - wants to take away the money citizens would prefer to spend on shiny new goods, they economise on clearingup rubbish." Mr Paxman criticises the Treasury for failing to support a scheme, successfully implemented in Ireland, which would have seen a tax imposed on the use of nonrecyclable plastic bags.
He goes on to suggest that persistent litter bugs should be made to pick up rubbish as a more effective punishment than paying a fine. Mr Paxman has accused his employer, the BBC, of hypocrisy over climate change, saying it took a "high moral tone" in its reporting of the issue while pursuing environmentally irresponsible policies in running the corporation.

summerskin wrote: »

Doc ruby bashing England? Whatever next....



Predictable as ever.