Litter - Your views

[N-Dubz]

if you get caught.

[-Eyeless-]

lol good point then again it is bad and I should hate you but I dont

[Jaiisun]

I saw an old guy pick up a few pieces of rubbish dropped right next to a bin (it wasn't full). Once he'd put them in the bin, as I walked past he said "easy" and it just made me think - he's right.

It's hardly an effort to stuff that mars bar wrapper in your pocket, or to hold onto that coke can until you find a bin to put it in.

You wouldn't do it in your house - so why do it in the street? It's nobody elses responsibility to put your rubbish in a bin - even if it is what some people are paid for. Maybe if people started putting their rubbish in the bin, there'd be no need for cleaners.

;].
Jay x

[Purple]

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Roughly the size of Texas (Though some estimates put it at the size of the US) is a gigantic waste dump in our ocean. Garbage that gets in our water just kinda floats out there.


Our Grandkids are screwwwwwwed.

[Abzii]

Littering is discusting. When I have an empty wrapper, I just shove it in my bag or pocket if there isn't a bin around, and put it in the bin when I get home.

[Geraint]

About 2 weeks ago, we had a sustainability morning for our year, in school. One of the rooms, was a talk about litter. The man who was running the room was telling us how long things take to break down etc. He was saying that a carrier bag would take 30 years to break down with sunlight but on landfill it would take up to 300 years. Glass bottles take something ridiculous to break down, about 2 million years, might have been 20 or 200 million years. Then, we went litter picking in our school. At the front of the school there's a massive hedge that runs halfway. All we did was spend 20 minutes by that hedge. The amount of rubbish that 30 of us collected in the space of 20 mins was unbelievable and there was more rubbish left. Other classes had been litter picking that day, I'm not saying they did it in the same area but if they did, the amount of rubbish we collected is unbelievable.

Personally, I try to keep all my litter in my hand and put it in the bin but I know people who drop litter then complain that there are not enough bins around. Literally, they have to keep it in their hand for 10-20 seconds until we reach a bin. What do they want? A bin that moves with you? Every day, I go out for dinner and the amount of rubbish that I see strewn everywhere is incredible. If only people would bother to walk that extra bit with a piece of litter in their hand. Then, they say that if they didn't throw their litter, people would be losing jobs. WTH?

[-Eyeless-]

Thanks for all the comments guys Really good stuff

[wummer]

Sometimes i drop it on the floor when there no n around, sumtimes i put it in my pocket then when i come home, i remember i have a full pcoket of wrappers im like omg, sometimes if i reliaze it i drop it if im in streets.
So i do both. btw i aint lazy.

[Havoline]

Most of the litter around our town centre is alcohol, my summer job involves picking up litter and I've found that most of it is beer cans and bottles. Theres also a lot of chip wrappers and boxes which sorta suggests its mainly the people that go out nights get drunk and eat chips that do most of the littering.

[Bun]

i'm not going to say i've never littered, but i'm trying to stop it now i'm 16. everybody sees it as everyone elses job to bin it, but it's everybodys job. how can you expect other people to do it if you don't yourself, that's immature.