Roadside and layby litter and dumping...

20,000 Swiss Francs for dumping rubbish? And 300CHF for litter!
They clearly take the problem seriously.

Jing it's from 'gone with the wind'

I live in a lovely place. Lots of countryside here, and people do dump their litter. They tip the contents of their cars out into country car parks which is disgusting thing to do and dangerous to wildlife. They throw their rubbish into my garden as they walk past a real annoyance for me as I have little dogs who could put their heads into the bags.

It's not an area thing - it's just where the ignorant happen to be at any particular time

Jing it's from 'gone with the wind' that's the trouble with some of the litter, too, it's gone with the wind all over the place.

So - who is it filling the oceans with plastic? Is that the British again?

it's just where the ignorant happen to be at any particular time
True, Nonnie - and are these the same people who go home and recycle everything or not?
And if one looks at the demographics in relation to rates of recycling it is quite interesting too. More deprived areas seem to have lower rates of recycling - why is that?

Jalima, I expect they are too busy taking care of their immediate needs to be bothered, either that or they are plain thick

Or they cannot afford council charges to remove rubbish

Council charges?
You mean they avoid council tax altogether?

People have been sent to prison for that!

Our council charges £26 to remove up to 8 bulky items. Yes, that is a lot if you only have one bed or fridge to get rid of. I currently have a dead fridge standing near my gate while I try to collect together a few more things to chuck out. Then I shall arrange a pickup. I might ask my neighbours whether they hve anything and share the cost.

However, if I could have lifted it into the boot of a car to take it to the tip, I would not then have driven it to a layby to dump it. The council doesn't charge for emptying the recycling bin with the empty drinks cans, the plastic food trays, the bits of cardboard and paper. There is no charge for taking home cigarette ends, and cigarette packets, crisp packets, plastic bags and takeaway containers and putting them into the bin.

I was talking about day to day recycling really, rather than disposing of large items; we have free bags and food waste bins, apart from having to pay a charge for each garden waste bag.

Someone asked if they could put metal filing cabinets into our skip when we had one.
DH rang the scrap metal merchant and he came and collected them , free of charge. At one time they would pay for scrap metal.

I drove home from Southampton three weeks ago. All M roads. Very little litter seen. Drove to Newcastle airport two weeks ago and the bypass especially at the West End of Newcastle has to be seen to be believed. They certainly didn't Clean up for the Queen.

Motorways tend to be better simply because it is not wise to stop and they are well covered with cameras, still see the bottles of pee, or of course they could be Tizer.

Elegran, compared to our council`s charges, that is cheap. A couple of years ago we needed a wall unit, an easy chair, and a rise and recline chair moving, and the cost was close to £120!

In our area, Leicestershire and Leicester City have both reduced the days that the tips are open. They have also introduced charges for certain types of domestic waste, there are already charges for builders waste.
The result of this action is more fly tipping!

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Leicestershire is, from my observations, one of the better counties. The A14 on the way to Leicester is another matter -- awful.

www.fixmystreet.com

You can complain about litter, flytipping, potholes, etc.
Best if you have a postcode, but there is a map on so you can pinpoint the problem.
Take photos as well.

Don't just complain; do something about it. The message goes straight to the local council, and you can find out if anyone else has complained about the same thing.

DJ, thanks for that, it will be useful for local problems. Not much good for those that I see on my travels as I'm never sure enough of my location to be able to pin point the spot. Near the end of the A14, isn't likely to be good enough.
Most of the fly tipping spots near me will be well known to the council as they regularly clear it. However the council is not interested in anything dumped on private land, the poor farmer has to foot the bill.

Lucky people that live in areas of the U.K that don't have all sorts of rubbish on every roadside. I don't think East Anglia can possibly be the only county where this happens - it's so sad to see all sorts of things dumped alongside the roads; fast food packaging, bottles, even armchairs! Some people just don't appreciate this lovely country of ours.

NonnaW, East Anglia is far from alone to have the problem. It was the other end of the A14 I was referring to BTW.

I put A14 on the search, and it came up with two places that had been complained about, Fen Ditton and Harrington.
You get a map that shows and you can move along the road until you find where you are looking for.
How long is the A14?
Is that the road that had its number changed, and now goes all the way from Ipswich to Sellafield via the M6? Makes it easier for lorry drivers bringing nuclear waste.

NonnaW, go on the link and complain to the right people. It's much easier than going on the council website.
I have also told them about street lights being out, or on during the daytime. Potholes have been fixed, drains unblocked, flytipped furniture been removed. It does work.

The A14 is 127 miles from the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk to the Catthorpe Interchange at the junction of the M1 and M6 motorways near Rugby, Warwickshire.

We use the A14 between Ipswich and the M1 frequently. It must be the most boring road in the UK, hardly a landmark along it's length to identify where you are. Fend Ditton and Harrington are villages away from the A14. unless you were a local, you would not know they existed.

As we began our drive home on Wednesday morning- first thing we came across on the Northampton Road on the way to the A14 Westbound was 4 field entrances full of fly tipping- rubble, old machines, carpets, barrels, concrete and even a wheelbarrow. It really gave me no pleasure whatesoever to be 'proven right' I can assure you.

BTW from where we live, we could be in the wonderful Jura in minutes, Burgundy in 1 hour, Provence or the Alps or the Italian lakes a a couple of hours. So would be really choose to keep a holiday apartment in the East Midlands, or to come for our holidays in England- if we hated it so much??? Really?

It is because we love England and our English friends and people in general- that we are saddened and really upset by litter and fly-tipping (or abuse of any of the best in the world health or social systems, etc- perperated by a small minority). We've met up with lots of friends and family over last couple of weeks- all of whom say 'you've done the right thing- can't understand why you keep coming back really' ... and that saddens us too- as a big part of our heart will always be in England.

Litter on the A14, M11 and M20 was just shameful. Hardly any on the French Autoroutes. Fact.