Been meaning to do this for a few days now. The lane outside our house has been getting scruffier and scruffier, but the weekend (like the previous one) ended up being consumed by other demands - like fencing at DiL's place, Mr B's grandson's birthday, starting a crazy patchwork quilt for one of my Greek office colleagues
..tending to Mr B doing 'ill', (some men don't do ill at all quietly and the moaning started doing my head in. I make a lousy carer). I was 'working from home' today so went out at lunch time and invested 15 minutes in tidying up a bit.
That is rubbish off the lane from outside 7 houses and a school entrance. Sure it is a tree-lined lane and stuff gets trapped in undergrowth, but it is no excuse that most of this came from around the school gates. We are just around the corner from the intersection with a much busier road and I wonder how many people round the corner from open space and paved footpaths etc, and throw their rubbish into the trees and bushes because it will be less obvious, or fewer people will see them doing it.
The tally was 7 glass bottles, 11 cans, 2 big PET bottles and a sackful of single use coffee cups and junkfood wrappers. Nothing in that haul suggested good health or respect for one's gut bacteria!
I have been following #rubbishwalks on Instathingie and started to get the guilts a bit. Picking up a respectable amount of rubbish is not difficult; my resolve to do one piece a day achieves nothing in the grand scheme so I shall endeavour to resolve on say 15 minutes a week around my neighbourhood and see whether that makes any noticeable difference (whether I will have to start going further afield or whether I will simply be picking up the same old trash after the same ol' louts week after week).
Perhaps I should start scanning fingerprints off the stuff to see!!!!🤪That way lies madness I suspect.
How difficult is it to take your rubbish home? Too difficult, obviously.
ReplyDeleteI like the quilt and hope Mr B recovers quickly, for your sake as much as his!
Fortunately for us both it turned out to be about a 10 hour bug with an R number less than 1 (that is to say I didn't get it).
DeleteI think there's a massive shortage of litter bins in public places. In the Algarve and Tenerife there even bins on the beaches. This stops it from being thrown around or in the sea,
ReplyDeleteThere is a bin right across the road from the school, but to be fair we tackled a Councillor about bins a few weeks back and she said she had been asking for more bins and our council doesn't have any left. On order they say. Isn't that like the cheque is in the post?
DeleteAnd looking at that haul, mostly recyclables. Well done
ReplyDeleteI pick out the recyclable stuff when I get it home. Council won't take any of it if we leave it at the public bins unless it is bagged in their approved purple bags.
DeleteWe see those bags when people do litter picks..but they take an age to collect them..it just takes one determined crow and you are back where you started
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteYuk, indeed. I strongly suspect you'll be working the same area over and over. Depressing but realistic. YAM xx
You have after all seen what its like around here.
Deletefirst things first, you did not catch the bug, THE most important thing. 2nd thing I am NOT in anyway a care giver. i have zero tolerance. I am happy to say, the streets that Beau and I walk each day, rarely have trash, once in a while a bottle or a bag. or sometimes a childs single shoe. that happens a lot, we have parents taking kids to 6 different schools in our neighborhood. I have not been at the schools so might be differerent there. the shame is, the parking lots of Walmart and other food stores are horrible. people unload trash out of their vehicles and toss it in the parking lot, when there are trash bins all over the place, a few steps away. good luck with your 15 minutes a day. it will make a difference, and if there were hudnreds of people doing it, wow.
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of rubbish. A pity some of the teachers at the school do t read your blog. They could teach the kids about rubbish, disposal and collection.
ReplyDeleteRound here it might be the parents waiting for the kids to come out...or to be fair any number of council estate riff raffs that use this Lane between the town centre and the estate. Lots of good people live up there but a few baduns make everyone's lives miserable.
DeletePerhaps the school should help.
ReplyDeleteLots of aspirational slogans there (like schools seem to favour these days) but they are up against a very low socio economic demograph.
DeleteI can’t believe in this day and age people still just throw out stuff where ever they are. I wonder what their homes look like. Honestly. Disgraceful
ReplyDeleteSend that young grandson with his ‘pickerupper’ round to give a talk to some of the other school kids. They might want one of what he has and clean up your lane for you - or the thought might enter their heads that if they didn’t drop it they wouldn’t have to pick it up
ReplyDeleteThe quilt looks lovely! I shall enjoy curling up on that...i may even share it with my new brother if he asks nicely :D
ReplyDeleteYes sadly there are some very messy people out there who dont' care about our world, good on you for making the effort to clean up.
ReplyDeleteWe do beach cleans here and it never surprises me what rubbish people throw out.
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