| English countryside being ruined by a small minority.... such a shame 18:54 - Mar 1 with 5262 views | unstableblue |
Did a long walk in North Essex this morning, for a part of it I walked along a minor road for a couple of miles.
There was a drainage ditch and hedgerow to the side of most of the route. The hedgerow is currently without leaves and ditch was full.
The amount of rubbish/litter was staggering. Just a continuous mass of bottles, cans, bags, cartons. And in some laybys more serious fly tipping.
It just makes your heart sink that there are those in our society who have such a hideous mentality, that chucking rubbish out of a car window is somehow acceptable.
Who are these people?
Think it’s time to get a group together with some high vis and litter claws and hit it hard. Will take days and days.
Happiness is time with friends/family, watching Ipswich win, physical exercise, and most importantly the natural world interface, we’re really trying to feck up the latter it seems. |  |
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| English countryside being ruined by a small minority.... such a shame on 12:58 - Mar 2 with 263 views | ElephantintheRoom |
A big part of the problem is that someone clears it up. You don't have to go far along an A road to see some unfortunates litter picking for a living. I clear up the bridle path I walk my dogs along about once a week. It always reappears.
I was wandering along a footpath near Snowdonia at the weekend and couldn't help but notice that some people (Guardian-reading, Waitrose-shopping hikers, presumably) had thrown bottles, including glass bottles into the fields of sheep. And bags of dog pooh.
And don't get me started on those vile metallic kid's birthday balloons which crop up everywhere in the hedgerows.
It takes all sorts. |  |
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