Why is England so dirty?

Question

Everywhere you look in England there is rubbish. On the streets, on the roads, in the parks, in the countryside, on the coastline and beaches... and as for motorway verges and lay-byes they are just open rubbish tips full of plastic bottles, plastic bags, empty burger cartons, cigarette ends etc etc. England must be the filthiest country in Europe! When you go to Germany, France or Holland for example you never see so much trash everywhere. Why do people treat the streets and public spaces like an open skip? Why is there no civic pride anymore? Can anything be done about it, before this country is swallowed up under a mountain of trash? Or maybe that's just what we deserve.

Answer 1

i know what you talking about but what can be done? well, since the UK is one of the counties with the most CCTV cameras we should track those people down (those who drop and throw rubbish everywhere) and force them to pay. if a person pays something like £150 for throwing a small plastic paper they'll never do it again.

Answer 2

People do not care about it! I often see young kids with their parents throwing rubbish on the street and the parents say nothing! Or people just throwing their rubbish out of their car windows! I am always amazed - perhaps they do the same at home. Until people take responsibility and start taking more care, the problem will not go away.

Answer 3

I'm no clever environmentalist and to my simple mind it seems that we are all paying more than enough poll tax to keep the place clean.
Now lets assume that I was on a very basic minimum wage, I have bags of rubbish building up but I cant get them all in my bin for collection, they wont be picked up by the bin men because they have been ordered not to collect bags that are not in the bin, I cant afford to drive around looking for a council tip to take them to, I certainly cant afford to pay a private or council to remove them, what do I do? Leave them lying around my place, I don't think so!
I am convinced that it costs the council more to go around the country picking this litter up than it would to collect it free from houses. Collect it free immediately, not after a few weeks!
Next time you get a poll tax break down of expences just check on the cost of admin, all these people sitting behind desks making up petty rules, give half of them a pair of coveralls, reduce their salary, and split them up into rufuse collection groups, perhaps that would help a bit?

Answer 4

i agree with you, but if local authorities put more money into refuse collections people might not have the need to get rid of their rubbish by dumping it where it should'nt be dumped, then there are others that are just too lazy to walk to a bin, i would like to see rubbish dumpers named and shamed maybe then they might gain themselves a little self respect and respect for our country.

Answer 5

b/c there a lot of dirty people about some people just don't understand the concept of "it goes in the bin" your q should be why are there a lot of thick people ova here

Answer 6

It's everywhere the same, so don't complain about that until you visit a 3rd-world country.

Answer 7

I heared Amsterdam was way more filthy. And france too.

Answer 8

They have not been known to be the cleanest people in the world, the bubonic plague proved that, water has not been a priority for a lot of them even today.