| Springwatch 20:57 - Jun 3 with 1527 views | jeera |
A lot of plastic being found as material in bird's nests there.
Really sad to see. |  |
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| Springwatch on 21:51 - Jun 3 with 1472 views | Edmundo |
Indeed. Also noticed there are very few bees and butterflies around. I guess a cold, wet May didn't help, so hopefully it will turn around. |  |
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| Springwatch on 21:53 - Jun 3 with 1467 views | Dubtractor |
| Springwatch on 21:51 - Jun 3 by Edmundo |
Indeed. Also noticed there are very few bees and butterflies around. I guess a cold, wet May didn't help, so hopefully it will turn around. |
I've been on leave this week and spent most of it in the garden - whilst the various insects have been slow off the mark, this week with the warmer weather they have been back with a bang. My bee hotels are already fully booked! |  |
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| Springwatch on 22:10 - Jun 3 with 1427 views | WD19 |
Through May I started a minor lockdown hobby of litter picking.
Several weekends and several dozen bin bags later I realised that the local population were dropping litter in natural beauty spots quicker than I could ever hope to pick it up.
People just don’t give a shlt. |  | | |
| Springwatch on 22:12 - Jun 3 with 1418 views | Dubtractor |
| Springwatch on 22:10 - Jun 3 by WD19 |
Through May I started a minor lockdown hobby of litter picking.
Several weekends and several dozen bin bags later I realised that the local population were dropping litter in natural beauty spots quicker than I could ever hope to pick it up.
People just don’t give a shlt. |
My job is very much about waste management, your last observation is spot on.
But good effort on the litter picks. | |
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| Springwatch on 22:14 - Jun 3 with 1415 views | jeera |
| Springwatch on 22:10 - Jun 3 by WD19 |
Through May I started a minor lockdown hobby of litter picking.
Several weekends and several dozen bin bags later I realised that the local population were dropping litter in natural beauty spots quicker than I could ever hope to pick it up.
People just don’t give a shlt. |
I just don't know what to say.
There was feature on some news a few days ago showing junk that had left behind by campers in the Lake District.
Piles of it strewn about, treated like disposable equipment for a short break and then pretty much fly-tipped on the spot. | |
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| Springwatch on 22:24 - Jun 3 with 1404 views | WD19 |
| Springwatch on 22:14 - Jun 3 by jeera |
I just don't know what to say.
There was feature on some news a few days ago showing junk that had left behind by campers in the Lake District.
Piles of it strewn about, treated like disposable equipment for a short break and then pretty much fly-tipped on the spot. |
It was heartbreaking to be honest.
As I was walking through local woods etc I naively believed that the rubbish strewn about had built up over time and just needed a good spring clean. Once I started picking it up I realised that I was completely wrong and the stuff I could see was what got chucked on an almost weekly basis.
The amount of time and effort local authorities must put into picking up stuff people could easily have not thrown down in the first place must be epic. Generation Z’s efforts to save the world don’t stretch far beyond social media. | | | |
| Springwatch on 22:35 - Jun 3 with 1386 views | jeera |
| Springwatch on 22:24 - Jun 3 by WD19 |
It was heartbreaking to be honest.
As I was walking through local woods etc I naively believed that the rubbish strewn about had built up over time and just needed a good spring clean. Once I started picking it up I realised that I was completely wrong and the stuff I could see was what got chucked on an almost weekly basis.
The amount of time and effort local authorities must put into picking up stuff people could easily have not thrown down in the first place must be epic. Generation Z’s efforts to save the world don’t stretch far beyond social media. |
I used to walk a fair bit over West Stow, King's Forest, which is a mere few hundred yards from the Anglo-Saxon village set-up. Dunno if you know it or not.
But even there one day, I pulled up and was faced with a pile of paint cans.
One side of the road an educational facility with East England's relics etc, and on the other someone had tipped a van load of paint tins.
I took photos and reported it and was met with a sigh and an obvious frustration that, as you say, just said they'd seen it all a million times.
Edit: and yes, good effort on your part for what you are trying to do. [Post edited 3 Jun 2021 23:01]
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| Springwatch on 22:39 - Jun 3 with 1376 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Great to see the birds are getting in on reusing/recycling.
In all seriousness, though, the state humankind leaves the roadsides/environment is very sad to see. |  |
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| Springwatch on 22:49 - Jun 3 with 1365 views | judespiveyg |
| Springwatch on 22:24 - Jun 3 by WD19 |
It was heartbreaking to be honest.
As I was walking through local woods etc I naively believed that the rubbish strewn about had built up over time and just needed a good spring clean. Once I started picking it up I realised that I was completely wrong and the stuff I could see was what got chucked on an almost weekly basis.
The amount of time and effort local authorities must put into picking up stuff people could easily have not thrown down in the first place must be epic. Generation Z’s efforts to save the world don’t stretch far beyond social media. |
Even if we take your incorrect generalisation that littering is mostly the fault of my generation, do you really think it would be those of us who do actually care about the environment who'd be the ones littering? Why is there this assumption that all of my generation are naturally superficial?
Littering is abhorrent, and the amount of plastic ingrained in nature is depressing as hell, and there are people of all ages, including those my age, who don't care about the environment, but it's pretty unfair to assume that those of us who actually want to do something about it are lying. |  |
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| Springwatch on 23:00 - Jun 3 with 1353 views | jeera |
| Springwatch on 22:49 - Jun 3 by judespiveyg |
Even if we take your incorrect generalisation that littering is mostly the fault of my generation, do you really think it would be those of us who do actually care about the environment who'd be the ones littering? Why is there this assumption that all of my generation are naturally superficial?
Littering is abhorrent, and the amount of plastic ingrained in nature is depressing as hell, and there are people of all ages, including those my age, who don't care about the environment, but it's pretty unfair to assume that those of us who actually want to do something about it are lying. |
Hang on a sec mate, "generalisation that littering is mostly the fault of my generation".
That's not what he said at all.
He wasn't being literal, just that others are undoing any good at a faster rate. | |
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| Springwatch on 23:16 - Jun 3 with 1335 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Springwatch on 23:00 - Jun 3 by jeera |
Hang on a sec mate, "generalisation that littering is mostly the fault of my generation".
That's not what he said at all.
He wasn't being literal, just that others are undoing any good at a faster rate. |
I read "Generation Z’s efforts to save the world don’t stretch far beyond social media." exactly as he has done, to be fair. | |
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| Springwatch on 23:25 - Jun 3 with 1327 views | jeera |
| Springwatch on 23:16 - Jun 3 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I read "Generation Z’s efforts to save the world don’t stretch far beyond social media." exactly as he has done, to be fair. |
I certainly didn't read it as that Gen Z are guilty of littering.
More a reference that it is they who are of course more prominently covered in the news as trying to fight CC et al.
And that it is a losing battle.
Hope it's not a losing battle anyway. Won't matter to me so much but the Earth' a good looking place when not being abused. | |
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| Springwatch on 01:45 - Jun 4 with 1295 views | dominiciawful |
| Springwatch on 22:10 - Jun 3 by WD19 |
Through May I started a minor lockdown hobby of litter picking.
Several weekends and several dozen bin bags later I realised that the local population were dropping litter in natural beauty spots quicker than I could ever hope to pick it up.
People just don’t give a shlt. |
Litterers should be guillotined. |  |
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| Springwatch on 02:01 - Jun 4 with 1287 views | jeera |
| Springwatch on 01:45 - Jun 4 by dominiciawful |
Litterers should be guillotined. |
And then put in the bin. | |
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| Springwatch on 02:44 - Jun 4 with 1283 views | WeWereZombies |
| Springwatch on 02:01 - Jun 4 by jeera |
And then put in the bin. |
And then have that composting accelerant sprinkled on them so that they are garotted... |  |
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| Springwatch on 06:11 - Jun 4 with 1244 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Springwatch on 21:51 - Jun 3 by Edmundo |
Indeed. Also noticed there are very few bees and butterflies around. I guess a cold, wet May didn't help, so hopefully it will turn around. |
On my dog walk yesterday, we went past a patch of "Red hot pokers" and there were a load of bees. every plant had at least one bee on it and there were a few varieties of bees. I dont recall seeing any butterflies though. |  |
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| Springwatch on 07:24 - Jun 4 with 1214 views | chicoazul |
| Springwatch on 21:51 - Jun 3 by Edmundo |
Indeed. Also noticed there are very few bees and butterflies around. I guess a cold, wet May didn't help, so hopefully it will turn around. |
I had a long drive from Essex to the north east and back last week. The front of my car was absolutely covered in dead bugs which I haven’t seen in ages and ages. A huge leap to draw from my car journey of course but maybe lockdown has done nature some good. |  |
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| Springwatch on 07:44 - Jun 4 with 1195 views | WD19 |
| Springwatch on 23:16 - Jun 3 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I read "Generation Z’s efforts to save the world don’t stretch far beyond social media." exactly as he has done, to be fair. |
It reflected a couple of things:
1) General, huge, frustration that it is a losing battle.
2) In the specific instances I have been fighting a losing battle with I know the majority of the litter to be generated by the local youth. It’s not a generalisation, it’s an observable fact.
To be blunt it is learnt behaviour. People only leave their litter in beauty spots if they have been conditioned to believe it is OK (or somebody else job to pick it up).
What is difficult to convey in a post is just how depressing my experience has been over the past few weeks. The littering I have witnessed has not been one or two young people spoiling it for everyone else - It is a mass participation activity. I guess I was quite shocked and hoped for better from them. Middle aged white van man dumping at the side of the road is no longer a surprise, but I guess I hoped things would get better in the future.....and I now no longer have that confidence.
The next sentence is going to make me sound even weirder than I usually do, but the whole experience has left me almost incapable of just enjoying a walk anymore. Everywhere I now go I see nothing but litter and get so wound up I wish I had just stayed at home. [Post edited 4 Jun 2021 8:02]
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