How clean and tidy are you?

[Carole]

I’ve been wanting to discuss this for a while, but as it’s been on the news today that the Japanese and Senegalian supporters have been tidying up after themselves after the World Cup matches prompted me to start a thread about it.

After working 22 years for an airline and now volunteering at The Gatehouse it has always amazed me that people just leave an inordinately amount of rubbish on the floor, expecting someone else to pick up after them.

Why? When leaving an event it’s not that difficult to pick up your bottle and glass and leave it at the bin by the exit.

I’d say that 50% of people collect their stuff and drop it in the bin, 50% just leave their detritus on the floor for others to pick up.

I just wonder how they live at home if picking up a plastic container/tin can is too much effort.

 

[Tilly]

 

[Gramaisc]

There are cultural issues at work - I've just bought something from a chap in Japan - including shipping it here, it was half the price that I could get it at here. He has behaved so totally competently and professionally throughout the whole deal that I nearly had to ask him to stop, as it was making me uncomfortable - but, he wasn't putting it on, he was just desperate for it to be right.

There was a time here when it was very rare to actually see litter dropped, however much there was about - now, I frequently see it flung out of car windows.

The Litter Vortex that used to exist outside the Argos/Home Bargains frontages largely disappeared after the litter bin under the tree was removed - even having a bin provided was not enough for people to actually put the stuff inside it....

 

[Glam]

I would like to think that I was a tidy person when out. Use bins when available, take my rubbish home when there isn't one.
Took Bob (The car) for his MOT end of last month, walking back up the Isobel Trail to pick him up, I was disgusted by the amount of dog poo bags just chucked about, it's no hardship to carry the things to the nearest bin, is it?
At home, I live in a bomb site, no two ways about it, I'm not a natural housewife type person.
Pees me off tho when folk walk past the house and just drop their litter so it blows into all our front gardens, there's a bin either end of our bit of the Doxey Road, why can't they use them?

 

[PeterD]

I leave no trace where ever I go. Theatre, festival or anywhere else. Raised my daughter not to litter so always set an example. If something small as a receipt falls out of my pocket I will chase it up the road.

 

[Bob]

It's just laziness, we had some friends round one day and their daughter threw her sweet wrapper on the floor in my garden, I asked her nicely to pop it in the bin and she replied with " I don't pick things up off the floor" I couldn't believe my ears, then quick as a flash eldest daughter had it disposed of without even being asked, needless to say I was never in a hurry to invite them back.

We live in a rural area, at least 8 miles from the nearest McDonalds/KFC/Burger King but you wouldn't believe the fast food rubbish we see down our lane, it's bonkers, you've brought it this far, just take it home. The only thing I have been known to chuck out of the window at speed (into a hedge not in the town) is the odd apple core which I figure can't hurt.

 

[Alee]

I can't stand people chucking rubbish on the floor. The people that chuck rubbish out their car/van windows are the worse ! at a previous house there used to be one car that used to pull up in my street every couple of days to eat their McDonald's then just throw all the rubbish out the window. I soon put a stop to it ! Lol

 

[tek-monkey]

I won't even leave a glass on the table in a pub usually, always put it back on the bar. My house is a shithole though!

 

[That-Crazy-Rat-Lady]

I just don't understand the litter mentality at all??
Just why??
Working in a school it's a big problem - I'm quick to 'educate' any student I see littering.

I feel so sorry for the elderly cleaners that spend hours after school cleaning up after them - yet I suppose it keeps them in work?!

 

[age'd parent]

I'm a bit messy when working at something and leave all the tools and detritus lying where ever I've been working till the next day, then have a dam good clean up and tidy every thing away.
Mind you I do have a "assistant" in the house that will keep tidying up even while I'm working, so much so, that I some times have difficulty finding the tools I'm using!

 

[staffordjas]

I'm very tidy and carry my litter until the next bin.
Angers me so much following people who sling wrappers on the floor , despite them actually passing a bin at the time.

Wouldn't ever challenge a litterer again though, after doing so years ago down our freshly swept alleyway. With me asking them to pick their wrapper up, the bullies then targetted son as he walked to his primary school for weeks!

 

[Tilly]

Ban bins

Except at home

Ban people

Except at home

Plant a tree in 73

Stay at home in 24

 

[Alee]

I like to chase people with the rubbish they drop . “Excuse me , you dropped this “

 

[Tilly]

I like to chase people with the rubbish they drop . “Excuse me , you dropped this “

I just like to chase people

 

[proactive]

I just like to chase people

I've always thought you were the other way round.

 

[Mikinton]

After working 22 years for an airline and now volunteering at The Gatehouse it has always amazed me that people just leave an inordinately amount of rubbish on the floor, expecting someone else to pick up after them.

There was a story in the Mirror yesterday about a couple who'd flown to Greece, lost their passports having left them on the plane, and then been flown to the UK on the next plane back. They'd put their passports in the magazine etc holder. I half suspect the passports had been in amongst the free copies of The Sun given away at airports, or whatever, and then got disposed of by the cleaners during the turnaround - they don't get much time to look at what's being thrown away.

Anyway, how clean and tidy am I? Very clean, I'd say. For example, I make sure I change my bedding every three months even when it doesn't need changing.

 

[Withnail]

 

[peggy]

I often hound strangers I see who litter to pick up their rubbish, I hate it. It's unnecessary. I also drum into my kids how litter dropping is shameful. However it would seem one of my children and the little s#|¥s who unbeknownst to us attended an unexpected house party whilst we were recently away didn't have much concern about littering looking at the state of my home after they utterly trashed the place causing much damage.