Rubbish thrown from cars

[david1701]

Have a look at this then:

Is two years fast enough for you?

Throwing anything out of cars is slovenly and unjustifiable.

If you want to to have your waste biodegrade, buy a compost bin and put your waste in it.

don't eat bananas, the smell makes me heave but I know apple cores just won't be there the next day because something ate it. Those figures are for how long things take to biodegrade which completely ignores the effects of wildlife

 

[vernon]

don't eat bananas, the smell makes me heave but I know apple cores just won't be there the next day because something ate it. Those figures are for how long things take to biodegrade which completely ignores the effects of wildlife

It still doesn't justify the slovenly behaviour. It's just plain wrong.

 

[Bobtoo]

I occasionally see gangs of council workers collecting rubbish from verges. They will walk along filling a black bag as they go. When the bag is full they leave it where it is and start a new one. It really is shameful how close together the full bags are.

 

[PBancroft]

I quite often take orange skins, banana peels and apple cores etc off the top of mountains in the Lake District when walking there. People carry that stuff up, but don't bother to carry it down - and it really doesn't degrade quickly up there.

I am not bothered by apple cores in hedgerows... heck, I've been known to eat apples from trees in hedgerows which probably came from people throwing their cores away. I'm more bothered by banana peels again, crisp packets, fag packets, fag ends, drink bottles, McDonalds wrappers etc that people chuck out.

 

[the snail]

It still doesn't justify the slovenly behaviour. It's just plain wrong.

True. Why can't people wait until they get home and bin stuff. Since I've been cycling regularly I've noticed how much fly-tipping goes on, what gets me is that I see so much stuff dumped when there is a recycling centre within a couple of miles.

 

[JonnyBlade]

I think that if an apple core or the like is thrown into a hedge then all is well. Anything that is not biodegradable and left in plain sight is a disgrace.

+1

 

[Arch]

my mate chucked a 2L bottle of pop out of my car years ago there was a police car right behind us and we got stopped !

A coach driver told me a story once, about two rock star tourbus drivers (he may have been one of them) on a long job driving back through France, many years ago. On a motorway, in the middle of the night, the light came on to indicate that the toilet was full. They weren't supposed to empty it on the road, but...

At that time, the gendarmerie were fond of driving on sidelights only, to sneak up on speeders and so on. So this police car drives alongside and pulls them over. The senior driver said "Ok, leave the talking to me", and got out

Gendarme "You 'ave a problem wiz, ze.... your... (not knowing word) er... cupboard!"
Driver (feigning a loack of French" "Sorry mate, not with you"
Gendarme "Your... (remembers word) toilet!"
Driver "Oh, yes, we've got one of those, here...."

(takes gendarme on board, shows him toilet cubicle)

Driver "See, all fine, thanks, anyway, we'll be on our way....

Gendarme "No, no, is probleme...."

Driver "Looks fine, anyway, cheers..."

Gendarme takes driver off bus and leads him by arm to the back of the bus, where the police car sits, the entire fornt end liberally coated in toilet paper and.... stuff.

Driver admits it's a fair cop, and is allowed to go, once he's cleaned the police car....

I remember hearing a UK policeman talking once about a campaign to stop kids playing on railways. He said he'd ask them if they ever felt a sort of mist as a train went by, and when they said yes, he told them what it was....

All a bit OT, sorry. I like VC's tactic of smearing the rubbish over the car.

 

[Yellow Fang]

When I was cycling LEJOG, it made me livid whenever I stopped to look at some beautiful scenery, say the Lake District or the Scottish Highlands, just to have the view spoilt by crisp packets or paper plates or something. ******* inconsiderate ******** deserve to roast in hell. However, the worst place I ever saw for litter thrown out of cars must have been the Malin peninsula in Donegal, Ireland. There were plastic drinks bottles every 10 yards. Thoughtless scumbags.

 

[swee'pea99]

I once heard of a car stopped at the lights in the Home Counties, window winds down and a fag packet pops out. Fierce old stick picks it up and hands it in at the window. "nah, s'alright, I don't need it.' comes the unwashed voice. "Neither does Cheltenham!" comes the reply.

 

[Seigi]

I'm the sort of person that just can't justify littering (unless as others have pointed out, it is fruit/veg and in rural area, the way I see it is that 1. you're probably feeding something and 2. you're planting a tree if it has seeds in it, 3. if all else fails it'll degrade. I think the figures Vernon posted don't take into account weather, as depending on how humid it is I'd imagine they degrade quicker), I often find my pockets full of wrappers to put in the bin. I'm also a bit of a recyclomatic, was in town and had a sandwich from Tesco, took the plastic off and put it in the plastic part of the bin, and the paper in the paper part . We also have a shed (well, old stable) dedicated to recycling and we take it all up to the local school which gets money for recycling.

 

[vernon]

Discarding litter is a two state affair. You either do it or you don't. There are no half measures, justifications or exceptions.

The apple core throwers are essentially sanctioning the deposition of similar items in their own gardens by total strangers. After all it's feeding the fauna that share the spaceso it must be good all round. Or is it a 'not in my back yard' situation?

 

[Scilly Suffolk]

It's all about personal responsibility: you've carried it to wherever; you've consumed it; you should take away what's left.

Justifying disposing of YOUR waste irresponsibly because it will be eaten or will rot is a fatuous argument.

There are people employed to collect litter, so littering keeps someone off the dole, right?

Personal responsibility people; personal responsibility.

 

[PK99]

There's a fixed $1000 dollar fine for littering from cars in the US - and I've seen someone being caught for it!

Fines "up to $10,000 dollars" on Cape Cod.

But cyclists need to put their house in order too - empty gel sachets in hedgerows are commonplace and sportive routes are sometimes disgraceful

 

[gary r]

i work at Heathrow,and often walk through the short term car park outside terminal 4,Chauffeur drivers (scum bags) are the worst,i always see them dumping fast food containers and drinks bottles on the floor,as they dont want their customers travelling in a car full of rubbish,I have picked up a coke bottle thrown from a car and chucked it back in through the window of the the silver mercedes from where it first came " you dropped this " i said to him as i walked by !!!

 

[Ludwig]

It doesn't help when you see pro cyclists on the big stage tours chucking bottles and gel wrappers into the roadside. I see quite a lot of discarded gel wrappers and they can only of been chucked by cyclists so we need to look at ourselves before pointinng our fingers at others.