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Mcdonalds is the most litter dropped in 10 cities ... I can believe that with the amount of maccydees rubbish that lands in mine and neighbours garden.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7825339.stm

Greggs came 3rd, KFC came 4th. 2nd came unnamed from chippies and kebab shops ...

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Easily solved, next time you & spugs go out and then stagger home wait until you get in before you start eating, then you can dispose of your rubbish in your own bin without having to share it!

http://planetsmilies.net/eat-drink-smiley-5147.gif

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What a load of tosh

I think almost all of McDonalds packaging is recyclable. What does that fool think they should do, send members of staff to follow people to make sure they don't drop litter?

Maybe the Government/Council should be employing more people to catch those that litter and slap them with fines.

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lol, i was just listening to the news and they said that it was Greggs who came in first and Maccy d's second, i wish news companies would talk to each other ya know ;)

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Excuse me but ain't this just a tad BLOODY STUPID, it's not the firms that drop the litter its the flaming lazy people who don't give a monkey's and just throw their empty containers on the floor and not in bins or take them home, its just like blaming the council for fly tipping, its the good old British Public to blame and nobody else:(

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If they want to do something about it they'd provide more litter bins.

However, those that do drop the litter would most likely still not use them then. :(

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That is a good point. There just are not enough bins on the street around me. Rhyddings Street leads from the park to Union Road and gets a lot of foot traffic because of it. I could be wrong but I don't think there are any bins on it.

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maybe the council should employ me to pick the litter up off the streets :D


thats another app form i may have to ring up for :D:D:D

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When I lived on or very near a main road, litter was more plentiful.
I think motorists throw litter out of car windows regularly

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McDonalds litter is regularly thrown out of cars going over Whinney Hill Road.......

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My Father Lived near the Civic Theatre in Ossy, and at one time when the Bank was open people used to park outside his door whilst they went to the bank. I lost count of the number of times I went to my Fathers and saw pilled in the gutter, neat little heaps of fag ash and Ciggy butts, where these lazy motorist emptied their car ash trays. I actually caught one woman dumping her fag ends one day, she wasn't very impressed with my words of one syllable I related to her actions, the supercilious-cow

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:eek: have you turned that oxygen bottle to HIGH today Jay? :eek:


thats a very big word :eek:

;)

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I was once waiting in Rawtenstall for my son to get off the Express bus from Manchester.
I was early so was strolling along the street.

A woman parked near the cash machine, got cash, and then discarded the paper receipt on the floor. I called 'you have dropped something' and picked it up.
She said 'I don't want it'. I said 'well you're gonna have it' and put it under her wiper blade before she could drive off.

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When he buys me my maccydees brekkie he brings it along the road and serves it to me in bed ... then it gets put in my bin.

Tell you what the council have done tho round here. Took the bin away from the bus stop ... and put bins along the road. When i asked why put them on the road and not at the bus stop .. was told people walking along from maccydees finish eating roundabout there ... so they put the bin there. When i said what about the ones who eat it at the bus stop .. well theres a bin just further along .....:rolleyes:

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Though Maccydees are pretty good round here ..... after they opened and all the rubbish started appearing they sent out people to pick the rubbish up along the road.

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Mc D's provide plenty of bins around their stores, I think the Blackburn Town Centre one has 3 or 4 outside it. Once the people take it away then its nothing to do with them.

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No wonder the country is going down the tubes with everyone eating at Rotten Ronnie's ... people should eat the wrappings and dump the "food" ... the wrappings are more nutritious than the burgers and the stray cats etc would love to eat the junk food (altho' roadkill would probably be better for them) .... If you guys are short of scavengers, I renew my offer to supply a few skunk.:theband:

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Don't have bottles flashy I only have draught:D

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I watched North West Tonight yesterday and they had this guy on who was the Chairman (or to be PC Chairperson) of Keep Britain Tidy Campaign, who's no doubt on a 6 figure salary. Is it any wonder this country is going down he tubes, this guy was banging on about the fast food chains for the litter problem, NO IT ISN'T YOU BURK, I found myself yelling at the box, its the brain dead idiot who throws the packaging on the floor, not the chap that sells him the food. If everybody took responsibility for their own actions and did the right thing we'd live in a better world, but when we live in a society where a tug will kick somebody to death for objecting to his unreasonable behaviour, what chance have we got when asking the same thug to place fast food carton in a litter bin, I'd say slim to none

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Ah yes, but it is easier to blame big companies, than to tell the public they have to clean up their act.

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the aldi area in accy gets littered a lot with mcdonalds packaging infact i would almost guarentee any area withing 5 mins walk of a mcdonalds suffers from high amounts of litter

is this mcdonalds fault - NO

is this the fault of lazy bastards who drop their litter as soon as they stop feeding their fat faces or throw it out of their car window - YES

perhaps with the amount of cctv in that area alone they could get registratiion numbers of cars throwing litter out of their windows and radio to the pretend police men on patrol to nab and fine people seen doing it

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Spot on accyman, but if they started fining people £500 for dropping litter I think there would be a drastic reduction in the amount of crap that is floating around the streets

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exactly but even with all the cctv in the area and comunity wardens there is very little been done to enforce littering laws

mind you i will grant that the majority of comunity wardens time is spent having to sort out kids whos parents cant control or wont control them :rolleyes:

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Thats another form of litter and should be fined too:D

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A lot of Councils cut back on bins in the light of terrorist activity because of the ease of leaving a bomb in them. Certainly litter does seem to be getting worse over recent years. I'm amazed at the number of people i see dropping large items of litter down right in the middle of town centres nowadays including bottles and cans. CCTV certainly isnt stopping it. is it!


Best Regards - Taggy

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To be quite honest Taggy I don't really think that CCTV was installed to catch litter louts it was more for watching unsavory characters and the like doing naughties, quite honestly I bet the people who do drop little consider themselves as upstanding citizens, but its just become commonplace now to drop litter without really thinking about it, maybe a £500 fine may just focus their minds a little;)

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No, i was'nt meaning to suggest thats why the majority of CCTV is installed, just that you would think that as a consequence of that, people would be less likely to drop litter for fear of being identified, but they dont seem to give a damn about that nowadays. As you say, hitting them with a hefty fine would make them think again hopefully. I wonder if the problem has been lessened in those centres which have the system whereby a vocal warning is shouted at litter louts...probably to expensive to install and operate in most smaller towns though.

Best Regards - Taggy

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the terrorism thing reminded me of a time i spent i bolton

after a heavy night a couple of years ago out i awoke in a shelter( long story lol) and managed to get some breakfast from a nearby supermarket near the train station.I got the food to take out and ate it while waiting for a train home and put the remains of my full english breakfast into the bin only for it to drop straight through onto the floor

turns out due to fear of terrorism rather than remove the bins completely they removed the bottoms of the bins and left the shells on the posts and when i asked if they could put it in the bin they had in their office they said they couldnt so i guess they were affraid i had left a couple of bangers in the tray or somthing :rolleyes:

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Is this the answer Bombproof superbin that serves and protects - Times Online

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i blame the bleeding heart anti war lefties for giving the terrorists the idea in the first place :rolleyes:

http://www.roystpierre.com/albums/al...omb_banner.jpg

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I would call you a spastic but someone would complain saying I wasn't being PC ;)

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due to the name change of the spasitc society i believe the correct name is now scopey ;)

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Being sad I counted litter bins while driving home. 2 on New Lane in Ossy, 14 between the Black Dog and the War memorial at the bottom of Rhyddings Street and 1 near the bottom of Rhyddings Street.

I was surprised with the large number on Union Road.

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That's your caring sharing Council Neil:D

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What LCC? :rolleyes: