It's rubbish! (Litter and Littering)

Member Name: alocin

Product:	Litter and Littering
Date:	15/06/03 (288 review reads)
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People who drop litter should be tied to the stake, covered in stale bread crumbs and have ducks set on them. A slow death by the pecking of ducks might just deter other people from dropping litter! It is just such a pointless activity – most litter seems to be only a few metres from a bin, so why didn’t the person just walk those extra few feet! Grrrr!

Some people blame fast food outlets for litter. I think that they may be responsible for an increase in the amount of litter, but really they are just providing more ammunition for the litterers. The key cause is the people themselves – the rubbish could be put in the bin – it is their action in throwing it on the ground that is the problem.

We live in the same road as several schools, and our front garden has several crisp packets and drinks cans thrown in it every day. There are bins in the schools and further up the road, but the evil little kids cannot bear to hold onto their empty wrappers for just a minute more. I plan to hide behind our garden wall and throw the cans back at them, along with some rocks. That’ll teach them.

Towns and cities are covered with rubbish, creating eyesores and demoralising people who live there. But litter is not just unsightly, it can be dangerous. It attracts pests such as rats that carry disease into towns and cities and animals can be trapped in packaging. People can be injured as well, cut on jagged cans or broken glass.

Littering is horrible, and this should be forced into small children’s heads as soon as possible. Creating a culture of tidiness and cleanliness when young should stop people littering in the future as yobbish teenagers (I may be a teenager but I am not of the yobbish kind) or slovenly adults. If that fails then research should endeavour to find the “litter gene” and burn it from offender’s brains.

It is just so antisocial to leave your rubbish to be cleared up b
y someone else. When I was at primary school our headmaster made us pick up litter every break time. We hated it but the playground was clean, and people didn’t drop litter because they would only have to pick it up later. People who drop litter should be made to pick up lots and lots of really disgusting rubbish, while naked or if not practical then while wearing brightly coloured overalls. An element of name and shame as well as making up for what they have done.

Oh, and before I go an idea for a slogan: “Littering: It’s rubbish”.

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