I went for a walk earlier & you know the roadsides and the hedges were full of empty plastic bottles, beer cans and other rubbish.
Is it like this were you live? why are we paying council tax when it is so filthy dirty everywhere?
What can we do about it? I think if they spent a month cleaning it up it would be like Sisyphus and they would have to begin all over again.
Its thoroughly depressing the way we treat the country. :~(
2007-01-20 04:52:30 · 19 answers · asked by andylefty 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Sadly yes my town is dirty too...
Parents do not teach their children to keep rubbish until the reach a bin.....i have 2 children and i have heard parents telling their kids to chuck papers on the path during the walk home from school....I make mine take it home with them and have on many an occasion make them go back and pick up what they have dropped. Unfortunately as far as i know I am the only one to do so.
am proud to say my son was once given a £5 reward in the town centre by a litter patrol person for using a bin.
but with all the rest of the litter blowing around it makes little difference ..the campaign needs to be re-iterated in primary schools.
2007-01-20 05:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by blazing_staruk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Bristol and it is dirty in some areas. Believe it or not, the posher areas have more dog poo - people there are to posh to pick up! They are only collecting the bins every fortnight now - I would love to know where my council tax gets spent on cos it certainly isn't on keeping the town clean.
2007-01-20 13:25:44 · answer #2 · answered by Bexs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
Here in Portsmouth there is litter and dog poo everywhere. People's attitudes these days have sunk to such a low that no-one gives a toss about the town, each other or themselves.
2007-01-20 12:58:59 · answer #3 · answered by The Wandering Blade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I live in a small Scottish, rural town. It's spotless.
Can I make an observation?... It seems to me that the higher the level of , ahem, "diversity" any British town has, the greater the amount of filth that litters their streets.
2007-01-20 12:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it's the same story here. When I was a child, there were men who actually picked up the mess on a regular basis. I guess it's not important enough anymore.
2007-01-20 12:58:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well people think one person cant change the world well you can you want cleaner towns and cities..then do something about it......dont sit back and wait for someone else to do it.
The only way to get something done right is to do it yourself.
2007-01-20 12:59:21 · answer #6 · answered by bananna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have to pick up litter people have thrown in my front garden every week.
I also work at a school and when you ask children to pick up their rubbish, their answer is that it is the cleaner's job not theirs!
2007-01-20 12:58:31 · answer #7 · answered by Her 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. I find it amazing how everybody in En-ghu-land is so patriotic when it come to sport yet dont give a **** about how they treat the country.
2007-01-20 12:58:55 · answer #8 · answered by ed.knight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No here in the part of Devon where I live is incredibly clean and tidy.
2007-01-20 12:56:07 · answer #9 · answered by Jade Goody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, here in LA its quite clean
2007-01-20 12:56:52 · answer #10 · answered by § gαввαηα § 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋