Tring in Transition blog: 28/9/09
During Saturday Tring in Transition had a litter pick.
I decided to litter pick the route from Tesco to Mortimer Hill.
This is a route used on weekday lunchtime by a lot of young people.
It has a litter bin about every 50 yards.
I picked a whole sack of landfill rubbish – sandwich packs, hot chicken portion bags, crisp bags etc. and a sack of plastic bottles and drink cans.
I know that this route is regularly picked by both Tring Town Council and Dacorum Borough Council staff – so that what I found was probably only a couple of days worth of litter.
A few weeks ago, in July, I saw three young people sitting on a bench eating fish and chips.
There was a litter bin 1eft away from the bench. The fish and chip packaging was chucked on the ground.
I am a governor of Dundale Primary School and I know that the primary school children are very litter aware, and most of them take care not to leave litter.
However, as soon as they move up to Secondary school they loose this awareness.
It no longer seems "cool" to dispose of litter correctly.
I know this is not for lack of the teachers trying to make them take care of litter – they try very hard.
This casual attitude to litter then seems to follow through to when they become adults.
Once a month I am in Tring High Street in the early hours of Saturday morning – and on my way home there is a lot of litter left by those returning from pubs – glasses, bottles, cans, ready meals etc.
Litter does contribute to our problem of climate change.
Items that could be recycled, and are not, waste energy and add to CO2 production.
Councils having to employ people to go round and litter pick from open land, verges, motorway reservations etc uses up energy and produces CO2.
In addition much of the waste can take several hundred years to degrade and remains a threat to wildlife if not removed.
Perhaps some of you who chuck litter all over the place would like to reply and give a reason for littering the countryside?
I'm not the only one upset.
I met someone recently who is an alcoholic and lives rough in the Tring area.
He was very upset by the litter that he finds, and picks up as much as he can, especially from hedgerows. An example to us all.
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Thursday 09 February 2012
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