Here’s a debatable issue. The photograph shows rubbish left by someone who obviously stopped to eat a takeaway meal on this bench in St John’s Road.
My first reaction is that where you put a bench, you need a waste bin. Some people will stop for refreshments after all.
However, turning this around, once you install a bin, you’ve got to continuously empty it. It is a known fact that some people who live near one will pop out with a bag of household refuse to add to its contents!
Am I being too old-fashioned in asking who don’t those who like to dine in this fashion take their rubbish away with them?
What do you think?
People who litter should be ashamed of themselves. On the broader point, there is a theory that if you don’t have bins, people will take their litter home. That’s clearly flawed, however, by your own demonstration. I reckon we need a few more bins sensibly positioned in areas which visibly attract litter at present.
Without wishing to sound holier than thou, what we always do – when dining alfresco – is take a rubbish bag with us and then take the detritus home, to put in our own bin. Or put it in a public waste bin, if not going home. Is that really so very difficult?
Good idea to open the topic of responsibility……I join you in being old-fashioned and think each person should take responsibility for their actions. Therefore – yes, the people who eat/drink on/near such a seat should take their leftovers with them. Could this be taught in schools?? At home? In Scouts/Guides? Keep going…..
It simply reflects the lack of discipline and pride in your surroundings, which when many of us were young, was taught to us by our parents, which is how it should be.
We should be more like Singapore where they have rigid enforcement of ant-litter laws. In this country we’ve become great law-makers, but poor enforcers. I have never seen the logic of “Policing by Consent “. I don’t remember any such notion when I grew up.
Wishful thinking Richard I will even carry a single sweet wrapper back home to put in my bin. A modern plague unfortunately,