Riding through the tip

[MarkF]

When were the permits introduced? I live on the other side, and have never been asked for a permit.

Maybe 2 years ago? Bradford citizens have to have permits to use the council tips. http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/rec...nts_permits_household_waste_recycling_centres

"The Council has been monitoring the use of HWRC and identified that residents from other areas have been using Bradford’s facilities!

No sh!t? Most of North Bradford's citizens will be using the nearer Leeds dump, as you do, bloody dunderheads!

 

[Piemaster]

I have been for one ride downriver from Leeds since the floods a couple of months ago.

The riverside trees and shrubs covered with plastic bags, packaging, food wrappers etc etc etc. Not just a few bits and pieces - but completely shrouded in the stuff, to a height of 8-10 feet. For mile after mile after mile.

Disgusting.

Sounds really unpleasant. Any dropped rubbish being washed away and left on the riverbanks as the floods receded. Of course it may not just be discarded rubbish, wheelie bins are quite capable of holding and floating with a fair volume of rubbish in them before eventually toppling over and disgorging their contents.

 

[Katherine]

I have been for one ride downriver from Leeds since the floods a couple of months ago.

The riverside trees and shrubs covered with plastic bags, packaging, food wrappers etc etc etc. Not just a few bits and pieces - but completely shrouded in the stuff, to a height of 8-10 feet. For mile after mile after mile.

Disgusting.

Sounds really unpleasant. Any dropped rubbish being washed away and left on the riverbanks as the floods receded. Of course it may not just be discarded rubbish, wheelie bins are quite capable of holding and floating with a fair volume of rubbish in them before eventually toppling over and disgorging their contents.

The banks of the river Irwell are the same.
It's tragic. I don't see how it'll ever get cleared up.

 

[Accy cyclist]

It's the same around these parts. They probably think they're being conscientious when they put their crap in a bag and tie it up before launching it out the car window!
Bastards!!

 

[growingvegetables]

The banks of the river Irwell are the same.

And something tells me that the Aire and the Irwell don't figure highly on the priorities of this dingbattery - http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/02/clean-queen-campaign-tory-britain-its-worst, and http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/clean-queen-has-better-ring-it-scrub-streets-peasant-1546633.

Well, at least the peasants can take ye veritable pi$$ - http://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/people-are-furious-about-being-asked-to-cleanforthequeen

 

[Vidor06]

I was out walking my dog along the shore of Belfast Lough a couple of weeks ago and witnessed a council employee spend a good hour collecting endless detritis (mainly drinks bottles and fast food wrappers) from the edge of the car park. When I left he had collected several bagloads and still had plenty of work to do. I was back the following week walking the dog and guess what, all the rubbish was back again. Hours of work completely undone in a week of utter laziness. To add to the mess someone had dumped a fridge and freezer. They had gone to the trouble of loading them into a car/van and driving to this fairly isolated spot and chucking it out. Theres a council tip not more than a mile away where you dont have to pay or have a permit or any of that.

 

[Globalti]

A few years ago I witnessed an Asian lady coming out of her house and tossing a black bin bag full of rubbish into the Burnley canal, which was already full of floating black bin bags tied up in the same way. Exactly where did she think they would go?

 

[Dave Davenport]

It's the same around these parts. They probably think they're being conscientious when they put their crap in a bag and tie it up before launching it out the car window!
Bastards!!

Yep, that particular one really p1sses me off too.
I ride in the South Downs quite a bit and the general littering seems to be getting worse. The usual fast food detritus is a constant, but coffee shop cups are catching up fast.

 

[jefmcg]

I haven't noticed this in the UK (though as a rower on the Thames Tideway, you see an awful lot of disgusting things clingy to the tree branches that are underwater twice a day.

But the other day I was playing with http://geoguessr.com/ and found this horror road in Russia

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@59.4...IaM8qzZvoirTkX7ifFJg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

 

[ianrauk]

 

[ianrauk]

 

[jefmcg]

I've always been a republican, but have felt slightly indulgent to the British love of the Queen, that I've just politely ignored the Royal love-ins that periodically occur. I'm afraid those 2 photos did it for me. I am no longer going to smile indulgently at the monarchy. I'm going to have nothing to do with birthday hoopla this year.

(I could be in trouble as I pledged an oath of allegiance to Queen, and her in-bred progeny. Not sure if it's worse if William got his mother's looks and his father's brain, or vice versa as now seems to be the case.)

 

[hatler]

There's no call for that sort of obscenity !! I nearly puked.

 

[Tin Pot]

Yer on crack if you think dumping crap everywhere is a Britain only problem.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Yer on crack if you think dumping crap everywhere is a Britain only problem.

Why is it getting worse?