I am getting very annoyed with littering.

[Boudicca]

I’m fucking furious about what’s happening in Dorset and this is before campsites etc have opened up. The result is that people living here won’t be able to access their local outside space this summer because it’s going to be absolutely fucking packed with tourists every day so lockdown continues for us.
Pissed up, fighting, littering, illegally parking. It’s not everyone but it’s enough.
I’ve tried not to be too NIMBY and selfish over this but now I want all the visitors to fuck off.

Let's go barricade the A338, right under that Welcome to Bournemouth sign.

 

[Looby]

Let's go barricade the A338, right under that Welcome to Bournemouth sign.

Yes! We’re closed, fuck off.

 

[Badgers]

I would like to recommend that litter / fly tippers get a week of cleaning and litter picking.

Part of the deal (for some) is that their employer is notified as to the reason for their (unpaid) weeks absence

 

[sojourner]

I would like to recommend that litter / fly tippers get a week of cleaning and litter picking.

Part of the deal (for some) is that their employer is notified as to the reason for their (unpaid) weeks absence

I've said that about festie litterers. Make them pick all them fucking nos canisters out the mud, or banned for life.

 

[Boudicca]

OK, this is the sign, which I think could use a bit of guerilla craftivism. Best suggestion gets made into a banner and Looby and I will hang it in the dead of night.

 

[Orang Utan]

My view on littering is probably the most authoritarian punitive right wing view I have. Litterers should be publicly shamed and pelted with rotten garbage and made to clear it all up afterwards. With their tongues.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Spent today at West Wittering, you had to Pre book and pay the parking and all the way from
Chichester there were signs telling you the car park is full and you need a ticket. From about two miles before the beach there were cars parked on the verges, in hedges and so on. The beach was mobbed, but no litter at all

 

[Artaxerxes]

I really do not understand the mentality of just leaving your shit everywhere for someone else to pick up.

There are times on seeing the mess I’d genuinely legalise setting loose tasers on the fuckers.

I just do not get it and half of these people littering around here are driving here in a car.

 

[stavros]

I really do not understand the mentality of just leaving your shit everywhere for someone else to pick up.

I think there may be some thinking that someone else is paid to pick it up (and I keep them in a job). This really breaks down when you consider that the person who might professionally pick it up is employed by the local authority, who are funded through taxation, which is paid for by...

Some might also be in the conspiratorial belief that disposal firms just bury it/dump it in the ocean/ship it to Asia.

And of course if confronted I would expect a lot of whataboutery, and protestations of how small and insignificant they and their littering are.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I really do not understand the mentality of just leaving your shit everywhere for someone else to pick up.

I mean towels and stuff as well. They've taken a towel to sit on and just left it. I guess it's like the festival fallout you get these days with tents and all sorts just left behind.

It's exactly the same mentality as you see at festis these days; no one enjoys packing down and lugging that shit back to the car park having spent the past three or four days getting mullered, but we do it cos to leave even fifty quid's worth of shit behind would be too much, that's before you get to the littering part of it. But there seems to be an attitude today that throwing money away is fine. See also the buckets of Starbucks clasped in every young paw, the Uber rides when the tube or buses cover the route and so on.

<Grumble, grumble, shouts at cloud...>

 

[Marty1]

Bournemouth beach yesterday. I just want to go down there with a loudhailer and tell them if they can't take it home with them then fuck off our beach.

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Absolutely packed looking at the photos.

Bournemouth beach: 'Major incident' as thousands flock to coast

A major incident is declared in Bournemouth as thousands hit the coast in soaring heat.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Marty1]

I fucking hate people. I go to festivals and I don’t leave a scrap of litter on the floor. Same when I go to the beach or the forest. My car is a pigsty but I’ve never thrown litter out of the window. Why are some people so fucking selfish.

I’ve seen people throw bags of McDonalds packaging out their car window whilst doing 60mph on the A19 - absolute idiots.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

The shite left on Brighton beach over the last two days is nowt new - same old same old

 

[Saunders]

Bournemouth beach yesterday. I just want to go down there with a loudhailer and tell them if they can't take it home with them then fuck off our beach.

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I saw photos of this in Bournemouth. So sorry you’re having to deal with it.

We get it here when it gets sunny (south Kent coast). And it’s been particularly awful in these warm COVID weeks. Here, it’s a mixture of locals and outsiders flocking to the beach and seaside parks. Considering how many turn up,it’s probably a small percentage who leave their shit (literally sometimes) lying around.

But as someone said above, if the reasonable people would just take their rubbish home, it would be a huge help.

People turn up at 7.30 am laden with tartan plastic bags, gazebos, barbies etc. Then when they leave they say, there wasn’t any room in the bin so I left my rubbish in a bin bag next to the bin. Because obviously there are no gulls, foxes or rats in seaside towns who will tear those bags open.

It’s especially shit here for the garden/ park keeping guys (who are already trying to keep the area and plants looking lovely, and have had their core staff whittled down over the years). So they spend their first 2 hours at work litter picking, including human waste, fielding calls about missing lifebuoys, all the early dog- walkers complaining about buckets of raw marinated chicken left in the bushes, nappies etc.

I think a lot of people, whether local or visiting, think that ‘They’ should have late evening rubbish collections. And thereby absolve themselves from the responsibility of taking their litter home.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I saw photos of this in Bournemouth. So sorry you’re having to deal with it.

We get it here when it gets sunny (south Kent coast). And it’s been particularly awful in these warm COVID weeks. Here, it’s a mixture of locals and outsiders flocking to the beach and seaside parks. Considering how many turn up,it’s probably a small percentage who leave their shit (literally sometimes) lying around.

But as someone said above, if the reasonable people would just take their rubbish home, it would be a huge help.

People turn up at 7.30 am laden with tartan plastic bags, gazebos, barbies etc. Then when they leave they say, there wasn’t any room in the bin so I left my rubbish in a bin bag next to the bin. Because obviously there are no gulls, foxes or rats in seaside towns who will tear those bags open.

It’s especially shit here for the garden/ park keeping guys (who are already trying to keep the area and plants looking lovely, and have had their core staff whittled down over the years). So they spend their first 2 hours at work litter picking, including human waste, fielding calls about missing lifebuoys, all the early dog- walkers complaining about buckets of raw marinated chicken left in the bushes, nappies etc.

I think a lot of people, whether local or visiting, think that ‘They’ should have late evening rubbish collections. And thereby absolve themselves from the responsibility of taking their litter home.

If you can get it in a bin you should take it home, or as we used to do after clearing up at raves, drive it to a place with large bins (behind a load of shops etc.) and dump it there.

But for councils that earn a lot of money from seaside day trippers perhaps laying on loads of dumpy bins might be a reasonable expense for them to bear, again back to West Wittering where the car park is stuffed with large bins, which may account for the beach being so free of litter...

 

[TopCat]

Yes! We’re closed, fuck off.

It's the same bullshit anti working class tropes used against day trippers since Victorian times. If you cant monetise their visit they ain't welcome.

 

[TopCat]

I saw photos of this in Bournemouth. So sorry you’re having to deal with it.

We get it here when it gets sunny (south Kent coast). And it’s been particularly awful in these warm COVID weeks. Here, it’s a mixture of locals and outsiders flocking to the beach and seaside parks. Considering how many turn up,it’s probably a small percentage who leave their shit (literally sometimes) lying around.

But as someone said above, if the reasonable people would just take their rubbish home, it would be a huge help.

People turn up at 7.30 am laden with tartan plastic bags, gazebos, barbies etc. Then when they leave they say, there wasn’t any room in the bin so I left my rubbish in a bin bag next to the bin. Because obviously there are no gulls, foxes or rats in seaside towns who will tear those bags open.

It’s especially shit here for the garden/ park keeping guys (who are already trying to keep the area and plants looking lovely, and have had their core staff whittled down over the years). So they spend their first 2 hours at work litter picking, including human waste, fielding calls about missing lifebuoys, all the early dog- walkers complaining about buckets of raw marinated chicken left in the bushes, nappies etc.

I think a lot of people, whether local or visiting, think that ‘They’ should have late evening rubbish collections. And thereby absolve themselves from the responsibility of taking their litter home.

Summer is not a surprise event.

 

[TopCat]

Beaches for locals who look like us.

Get a banner made up.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Summer is not a surprise event.

But this particular summer has an exceptional set of circumstances attached to it.

 

[TopCat]

But this particular summer has an exceptional set of circumstances attached to it.

Yeah, people have been cooped up for months and the same mentalist attitude that shut the parks initially now prevails in seaside councils, enraged that people came bringing their food and drink.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Yeah, people have been cooped up for months and the same mentalist attitude that shut the parks initially now prevails in seaside councils, enraged that people came bringing their food and drink.

The level of littering is still absolutely disgusting though whatever your perspective.

 

[TopCat]

The level of littering is still absolutely disgusting though whatever your perspective.

The lack of provision was disgraceful. The car parks in Bournemouth were full at 08:00. In the past that fact would have been noticed and trigger a well established plan inc overflow carparks, overtime for cleaning crews, traffic Marshall's etc. This didn't happen although the 30c plus weather was predicted for a week.

 

[Orang Utan]

People can take their rubbish back with them though

 

[TopCat]

They didn't implement their plan out of resentment that with all the local businesses being shut, their grasping hands would remain empty.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The lack of provision was disgraceful. The car parks in Bournemouth were full at 08:00. In the past that fact would have been noticed and trigger a well established plan inc overflow carparks, overtime for cleaning crews, traffic Marshall's etc. This didn't happen although the 30c plus weather was predicted for a week.

Good point well made

ETA: but that only goes so far to explain the problem. There are clearly a lot of people who have just sat on the beach, strewn stuff around themselves and then just got up and walked off making no attempt to take their rubbish to a bin, overflowing or otherwise.

 

[TopCat]

People can take their rubbish back with them though

The arguement of every authority that removes litter bins.

 

[Artaxerxes]

They didn't implement their plan out of resentment that with all the local businesses being shut, their grasping hands would remain empty.

Not everything is a vast conspiracy.

Sometimes people, normal everyday people, are just cunts.

 

[Orang Utan]

The arguement of every authority that removes litter bins.

And also the argument of people who think people should have some fucking manners

 

[Saunders]

Beaches for locals who look like us.

Get a banner made up.

It’s not about local beaches for local people, for goodness sake. It’s about don’t be a cunt and leave your rubbish on the beach.
And Yes, councils should be proactive and provide bins etc in anticipation.

 

[platinumsage]

If you can't even pick up your rubbish and dump it next to an overflowing bin, then you wouldn't have picked it up and put it in a bin that had space in it either.

Councils not emptying bins has nothing to do with litter being left where people were sitting.