I get really angry when I see someone drop litter. You see people inches from a bin, yet they still drop it on the floor. I also hate it when you're in the car and you see the person in front chuck something out of their window, whether it be a crisp packet or the remainants of their McDonald's Drive-Thru. Where do they think it goes?

If I have rubbish, I hold on to it until I either see a bin or am home. Even if it's an inconvenience I could never just throw it on the floor.

Its not just about what it makes the country look like it also has a negative effect on wildlife.

http://www.uksafari.com/archive/litter.htm

What about food waste? Dropping that will encourage rats.... did you know that there is 60 million rats in the uk??

Thats approximately 1 rat to every person in the UK

I am guilty of littering with spent cigarette butts. Sometimes I do pick it up and put it in the bin, but not always. I don't drop any other litter.

When my husband came home the other night and tried to park the car someone had dumped an empty tv box and inside was a dirty burnt frying pan in our parking space how lazy is someone to do a thing like that.I ended up taking it indooors and im going to take it to the dump.

Well I do that sometimes in the street but not always, only when I know there will be no bin near the point I am.

More and more bins are getting taken away in London due to the fear of someone leaving a bomb in them. There used to be one round the corner from work but even that has gone now.

With the smoking ban now being in force, many bars/pubs provide ashtrays outside which I always use.

Alongside our road their was a load of McDonalds Rubbish, and then a animal had ate some of it, as it was alll ripped out its bag. But being the Samartaian I am I picked it up, but I dont want to sound lazy, but I dont do it much, it doesnt really appeak to me picking up other litter.

Along the droves people have been flytipping aswell, dumping garden wase, old electrical items and tyres. Luckily we phoned the council and they got rid of that.

Honestly, you should be ashamed.
Why carry on dropping litter, you should of learnt you lesson.
And your not getting back at the men, your 'revenge' effects everyone else.

I know, and I know I have the wrong attitude about it but my area is horrible, it's a horrible to place to live in so me throwing a malteasar packet on the floor [when there is no bin] is hardly making the area any worse. And yeah, I know it's not the point and I shouldn't really do it but in my area I think people are more interested in looking out for somebody jumping out on them with a knife than a chip wrapper on the floor.

Though if there is a bin then of course I throw it in the bin.

Thats the most stupid thing I have heard all day!
The only option! So its impossible is it to carry it in your precious little hands! A mile stretch - Woo Hoo! That's some long way everyone has to walk!

When you are coming back with foood, the the last thing you want to do is walk alongside other people rubbish.

Sorry, but I am very angry at everyones lazyiness!

I always put things in the bin. Sometimes I'll catch myself drop stuff on the floor or in a bush but I'll pick it up and find a bin.

Nope, the only lesson learnt was that the council or the government or whoever created these fineing laws need to get their priorities sorted ... £75 for a chip wrapper, £30 for a potential life ...

And don't tell me I should be ashamed ... like I've said, a wrapper on the floor is hardly my area's main concern. And like I also said, I know it's not the point, I know it's the wrong attitude etc, etc.

If I lived in a nice place then I wouldn't litter but as I live in a horrible place, I don't see the point.

I agree about the laws, but then you can drive a tractor at 16, and a car at 17! Thats silly as well if you ask me, a tractor can cause more damage than a car.

But on topic, at least you see its wrong, but please dont drop litter again. If everyone dropped litter, like Kiz said, think where we would be.

"If I lived in a nice place then I wouldn't litter but as I live in a horrible place, I don't see the point."

If people, like you, did not drop litter and took some pride in where they lived then thing may improve. Whilst you treat is like a **** hole it always will be.

Post of the day!
I completly agree.

I live about 400 yards from a Maccy D's and we are slightly uphill from there. My garden is on a curve too..... this all leads to this in my garden:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...zy/rubbish.jpg

I disappear I really do! Other peoples litter is blowing in my garden which I have to pick up.... I dont get paid for it so why should I pick up other people rubbish??

I bet it gets really annoying.
I read in a home town thread that you wanted to move to where you were brought up, somewhere bginning with R, wil you still?

On the side, still no sound from PS

But you do as you have pride. Of course if you moved to Rutland you would never see any litter as it has not been invented there yet.

Where I live litter is generally OK. It isn't like walking through a dump but there are the odd bits of litter about. There are places near me which include long walks with no bins around. If I'm walking down one of those and its either freezing or my hands are full, the last thing I am going to do is cart an empty coke can down the road until I reach the nearest bin.

You not got gloves? If your hands are so full you you can't carry an empty can, then how the hell did you manage with a full one in the first place? Excuses.

Cart an empty can of coke - OH MY GOD!
Why cant you carry a empty can of coke? To heavy?
Its ridiculous!

Sorry, i am getting angry! :angel:

What would you say to someone who threw a can in your garden as they walked by? There hands may be cold too. I take it you would be cool with that?

No. I dont wear gloves. I hate them. And its perfectly possible yo buy one before you buy other stuff, and your hands get fuller whilst you have it with you. Its possible not to pass a bin.

I agree with you. After school I'll go to the shop and buy a drink, when lately it's been cold, and I'll carry the can all the way home to put it in the bin. There isn't a bin on the route I take.

I'm very echo-friendly so I would.

Say if you buy other stuff, surely they come in a bag, could you not put it in their?
And like I just said, a can of coke isn't exactally huge is it?

It would be funny if they did because there is a bin at the end of my street, and the street isn't that big. I'm on about where there are no bins!

But like I have said, is it really much to carry your litter where there are no bins?

Nope, I would just have more important things to carry which I've already mentioned. Hands full and all that :rolleyes: If my hands are not full then I probably would wait until I see a bin.

Hmmm... I am sure PS is ok.

Red and I are looking to move to Rutland, but the sale of the house just fell thro and somebody else has bought the house that we both really had our hearts on moving too. So its back to the drawing board.

Doc..... watch it or i'll get the train to leicester...... its only 2 stops away from where I will be living!!!!

Yeah I do. But there's about 1 bin in my whole village, so where else am I meant to put it?!

If you have other, more important stuff to carry then yes.

Ok, so tell us what you are carrying. I suspect them come in packaging, could you not just put it in their?
What about put the can in a pocket, or simply just hold it?

In the bin in your house. In my village their are no bins at all (It is small), but I dont drop stuff!

I am determined to change people's ways!

4 bags in each hand and your pockets are too small. There is a little bit left that could leak out over your stuff.

We dont need to be preached on the evils of dropping litter, we all know we shouldnt do it but some of us do

I bet you are annoyed. I remember when we we where moving house, just one break in the chain and it all stopped.

Magic, you fox hunt. You must have killed a fox, or know somebody that has. Do you class killing a fox then leaving it to rot as littering? In my view it is.

Dropping litter is lazy...pure and simple

There is no other way to express it.... no excuses not but.....Lazy

Drink the rest, compress the can, chuck it in a bag. Simple.

And as for bringing in the fact that I have been fox hunting before, that isnt really relevant, its just bringing in something on a completly diffrent topic.

By dropping litter you could potentially, as Kiz mentioned, kill a animal by starvation.

Home maybe????? Its your rubbish, why dump it for someone else to pick up?