Clean for the Queen

[Doon frae Troon]

http://www.cleanforthequeen.co.uk/home/2365

Reading some of the twitter replies I think the Pageant Master may have misjudged public opinion.

 

[shewy]

they can bugger off for sure, that's what my council are supposed to do (or McDonald's staff round here bloody mess they make)

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

they can bugger off for sure, that's what my council are supposed to do (or McDonald's staff round here bloody mess they make)

If it's no big effort we should all pick up a little bit of litter and stick it in the next bin when we have the opportunity. Our self justification that it is someone else's job is no excuse for not doing so ourselves. If I see some litter and I can make a difference by picking it up and binning it then I do (as I do on the golf course). Apart from anything else doing so defuses my irritation with litter.

Since a school trip to the Baltic in the early 1970s when I noticed that the streets of Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki were all immaculate litter and graffiti free (which Glasgow rather wasn't) I haven't dropped the merest scrap of litter (not a sweetie paper - nothing). It really isn't difficult.

 

[User62651]

Social problem which will not be cured by a silly appeal to do it for HM.

Personally I never litter either as that's what I was taught by my parents and it stuck. Hate seeing it lying around.

Never heard of the £80 fine for littering enforced in Scotland, never any police around to see it to start off I suppose. Need to start enforcing this law better.

Our council do not provide enough bins, I live close to a railway pedestrian bridge and it seems to be a hotspot for litter being discarded as its the right distance from a local garage for drinks to be finished with bottles mainly discarded by young people. Sure a simple rubbish bin would help.

See kids chucking litter all the time, they don't even think about it, education from parents is what's needed but we could be waiting a while. My generation were no better. Fly tipping is pretty popular too so little hope other than fines.

 

[Foxholer]

Social problem which will not be cured by a silly appeal to do it for HM.

Personally I never litter either as that's what I was taught by my parents and it stuck. Hate seeing it lying around.

Never heard of the £80 fine for littering enforced in Scotland, never any police around to see it to start off I suppose. Need to start enforcing this law better.

Our council do not provide enough bins, I live close to a railway pedestrian bridge and it seems to be a hotspot for litter being discarded as its the right distance from a local garage for drinks to be finished with bottles mainly discarded by young people. Sure a simple rubbish bin would help.

See kids chucking litter all the time, they don't even think about it, education from parents is what's needed but we could be waiting a while. My generation were no better. Fly tipping is pretty popular too so little hope other than fines.

Pretty much sums it up for me!

Littering shows laziness and lack of respect for others imo. I have been known to comment 'Litterbug' when it's done blatantly and if the circumstances are right.

Something that used to really bug me when in the Uni Tramping Club was the number of bottles and cans that were simply discarded after the contents had been consumed! If folk could carry the full cans/bottles all the way up the route, it should be less effort to bring the empty ones back down!! I was actually on a few 'clean-up' tramps and the amount left was incredible!