Rubbish on the streets
14-March-2010
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There is no excuse for the rubbish on our streets these days and you see it all the time. From cigarette butt litter and food litter, to chewing gum and sweet wrappers.  It’s just disgusting.  What ever happened to keep Britain tidy?

When I was a kid, I was brought up to be responsible and dispose of rubbish properly and put it in a trash can or take it home.  But these days, parents it would seem just don’t teach their children anything about clearing up after themselves.  It has become the norm to just chuck your rubbish down anywhere you like.  We live in a throw away society all right, quite literally.

Who do they think will clean up their rubbish after them?

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So many times, I have walked down the street and seen some young lad or lass just drop their sweet wrapper wherever they please.  It makes me so angry, and who do they think will clean up their rubbish after them?  Is it the rubbish fairy?  Is it mum or dad?  No, it’s you and me, because our taxes pay for the streets to be cleaned, and cleaning the street would be a whole lot easier if rubbish was placed in the bin at home or in a public litter bin.

Just put litter in the rubbish bin!

Sweetie papers blowing around our cities are one thing, but the worst type of trash dumped on our streets has got to be food packaging and cigarette butts.  The latter is just disgusting like the habit itself.  In my opinion, these people just need to be towed out to sea and drowned!

Casually discarded food packaging and in some cases the entire meal itself, that’s the real problem.  Every Saturday and Sunday morning you can guarantee you’ll find a load of pizza cartons and stale kebab remnants all over the place left behind from the crowds out socialising the night before.  This kind of rubbish isn’t just untidy, it is also a serious health hazard as well.  Food left on the streets encourages rats, flies cockroaches and all sorts of vermin.

One could argue that part of the reason that there is so much litter on our streets is down to the lack of bins provided.  Yes, to some degree I can go along with that. I know that I find the lack of bins on railway stations a real nuisance.  But there again, I think there is a good reason behind that.  Okay, so there aren’t enough public places to deposit rubbish.  It’s quite straightforward really.  Just take yours home with you!


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*John Cornelsen  27-Jan-2010 05:44

 
Last year I went on Holiday to Italy,i visited bologna,florence,turin and pisa.I could not believe how clean their cities were and very few street-sweepers! on researching the aforementioned I found that italians have a concept called "civitas" which translates as civic pride-being proud and caring for their cities.
*Mr Hicks  10-Jul-2009 02:32

 
This is a very Intelligent gripe Letter.If you want to see rubbish on the streets come on over to croydon.our central bus staition is absolutely Littered with discarded chicken bones.In the town centre black spots are to be seen everywhere,on close inspection it is chewing-gum that has been spat out.
*Mr Hicks  10-Jul-2009 02:25

 
It annoys me sometimes when I see rubbish that's been dropped on the street. I think to myself "There's a bin right there".
*Terry  22-May-2009 17:41

 
Less packaging means less litter. The companies who sell products in excessive packaging are largely to blame for the excessive litter. I refer you to the gripe "Excessive Packaging is Such a Waste".
*Owen  14-May-2009 10:03

 
no excuse just dont litter anymore so the polution can become better again without people being nasty behind themselfs
*naijae  14-May-2009 01:21

 
this has helped me write my essay for englsh... thank you
*jenny  07-May-2009 18:22

 
I am not sure that this is entirely appropriate, maybe I will just clean up after myself
*The man  22-Jan-2009 22:01

 
your forgetting something more foreigners more immigration more shops more takeaways more rubbish . we need to recycle all foreigners and send them home YES !
*just do it  10-Dec-2008 17:15

 
thanks alot of you.information and examples are very good
*cruise_ir  29-Oct-2008 21:35

 
I can remember when all this re-cycle mania began. Got to re-cycle everything! God will punish you if you don't! Now, when I see the bottle, cardboard and clothes re-cycle points, they are mountainous and out of control.

They remain this way for days on end for all the 'green do-gooders' and councils started something and have failed to deliver. They can't cope with it!

The cats and wildlife spread it far and wide for the collections are few and far between. This is true, I've seen it happen with my own eyes and I'm not blind.
*Mank  20-May-2008 12:08

 
This is very true and an infinate problem.
=]
I used this for my school work
Thank you weekley gripe!
:)
*Mrs Haddock  20-May-2008 09:58


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