dirty accy
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The council are currently recruiting more street sweepers.
I remember a year or so ago I was waiting outside Birthday shop whilst SWMBO was buying my birthday card. I women came out of the shop with her 5 kids. One threw her ice cream wrapper on tehfloor about 18" from a bin so I said 'Do you mind picking that up and putting it in the bin?' Her mother had a go at me for telling her kid off!!
With people like that we will never win the battle.
I remember a year or so ago I was waiting outside Birthday shop whilst SWMBO was buying my birthday card. I women came out of the shop with her 5 kids. One threw her ice cream wrapper on tehfloor about 18" from a bin so I said 'Do you mind picking that up and putting it in the bin?' Her mother had a go at me for telling her kid off!!
With people like that we will never win the battle.
all the side streets are not the same in that area,some are dirty,some are not,the day the thread was posted a sweeper wagon was coming down our road,as it does weekly,so you can start by stating true fact.also you can attend the local meetings with the council and bring up any complaints,also the area is part of a big regeneration project of which their have been 2 recent meetings,what was stated at them should hopefully go some way to solving these problems,hope that goes someway to answer your question fireman.
I purposely did not mention any particular streets and did say that not all are the same. A lot of people dotake pride in the area they live in but they are let dowen by the one's that don't.That applies to every street in every area. Including yours and mine Cashman. I know you will agree with me that the town is quite a mess at the moment, and that the thread was directed at the people who discard rubbish anywhere but in the provided places, and not at the people who live in them and try to keep on top of the area.
fireman said:
Of course, if the street is kept free of trash, people are less likely to litter. Conversely, if the area is strewn with litter, many folks will take it as a message that one more bit of trash will not make things any worse - and a downward spiral begins!
Can I just make a piont. This thread was about the prawns who gob, drop sh-t, let dogs sh-t and leave it for all to enjoy, and the idiots that think they have a god given right to throw what they want, where they want, anytime they want and ruin this town for the ones who try to keep it nice. I am sure that does not apply to anyone reading this, as the ones it does concern probably can,t read anyway.
With regard to litter, its about time the council but a lot more litter bins in place ,if you walk down Blackburn road from church to town you will be lucky to see 4-5 bins in the hole lengh of the road.
normally i just use less's front garden as a rubbish bin like everyone els
normally i just use less's front garden as a rubbish bin like everyone els
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The Council should make a bigger noise about imposing on the spot fines for litter louts and those who allow their dogs to foul the pavements;if these penalties are good enough for the theiving scum in Accy they should be good enough for these ignorant louts too!
all for that lindsey only problem i can see is their not soft targets,like motorists and old folk that couldn't afford to pay the poll tax,lindsay ormerod said:The Council should make a bigger noise about imposing on the spot fines for litter louts and those who allow their dogs to foul the pavements;if these penalties are good enough for the theiving scum in Accy they should be good enough for these ignorant louts too!
I still think it would be more beneficial for the litter dropper to have to do Litter Duty.......they should have to wear a yellow suit that proclaims them as a litter picker too.....I'm sure then they would think twice before dropping their rubbish.
Those who discard chewing gum irresponsibly should have to get down on their hands and knees and scrape the muck up.
Irresponsible pet owners who let their dogs foul the footpath should have to do T*rd. Patrols.
Those who discard chewing gum irresponsibly should have to get down on their hands and knees and scrape the muck up.
Irresponsible pet owners who let their dogs foul the footpath should have to do T*rd. Patrols.
It would not be degradation......especially if they could choose between a fine and being a litter picker. The yellow uniform could be seen as protective clothing.....a health and safety thing.......after all you wouldn't want to get run over while you were picking up the litter......and it said that Yellow is the most visible colour.
Margaret Pilkington said:
I like that idea - but how do you catch them? There's a nasty lump outside my garden wall which has been rained on. I don't feel like cleaning that up!
Margaret Pilkington said:
I think they should wear a pink suit that proclaims them as a litter picker. Let's go for maximum embarresment as I doubt any teenage boy would like to be dressed head to foot in pink.
Any rubbish offender too young to be fined by wardens, should then be taken home and their parents made to pay.When all is said discipline starts in the home.