Pinning notices to park benches

[simon.r]

Not far from my house there's a pleasant little park with a stream running through it - a bit of an oasis in the middle of an urban sprawl. (I exaggerate, but you get the picture).

At the end of a ride I often stop there and sit on a bench for 5 minutes before I get home, just to catch my breath and generally do nothing.

The problem is that the area around the bench is often littered with beer cans, sweet wrappers, fag ends etc. etc.. There's a bin about about 20m away from the bench I know that in the overall scheme of things it's not important, but it does irritate me

So if I stick a notice on the bench asking people to use the bin (either just a polite note or maybe a slightly sarcastic one) am I...

 

[FishFright]

You'll just be adding to the litter

 

[simon.r]

You'll just be adding to the litter

Possibly! Although I think I can justify that on the grounds that it'll be a tiny fraction of the litter that I've picked up and put in the bin

 

[Beebo]

Sadly the people who do that sort of thing will take no notice of your notice.

 

[simon.r]

Sadly the people who do that sort of thing will take no notice of your notice.

Sadly I think you're right, but no harm in trying?

 

[biggs682]

if you feel its worth it then do it

 

[snorri]

I wonder if the council could be persuaded to move the bin 20 metres towards the bench?

 

[jefmcg]

How annoying. I had two responses, but they have both been covered.

(slight variant - I was going to suggest a second bin, rather than moving it.)

You'll just be adding to the litter

I wonder if the council could be persuaded to move the bin 20 metres towards the bench?

 

[Hitchington]

Do it. I make notices like this for the estate I live on; fly tipping, people leaving rubbish bags outside the bins etc. It does work, eventually.

 

[Drago]

Madness layeth down that path

 

[Hitchington]

Madness is opening my bedroom window (ground floor) to be greeted by the sight and smell of neighbours ripped open rubbish sacks because the lazy feckers can't put it in the bin.

 

[Crackle]

Form a residents interest group. Organise cleanups and stuff and get the council involved. It pretty much saved a greenspace by us from going to pot and being sold off to developers. Another one has formed for another local park a Friends of...... type group. They organise park events and little projects to improve the place. I think these days, without groups like that, councils won't prioritise parks and greenspaces.

 

[Profpointy]

Maybe it isn't very right-on liberal lefty of me but I think people dropping litter should have their fingers broken at the very least

 

[snorri]

Maybe it isn't very right-on liberal lefty of me but I think people dropping litter should have their fingers broken at the very least

You come over as a very reasonable type of chap.

 

[Profpointy]

You come over as a very reasonable type of chap.

My instinct was to suggest hanging drawing and quartering, but my liberal softness led me to propose a milder sanction