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foreverwar · 13-05-2008, 11:26

Isn't that dealing with the symptoms, rather than dealing with the cause?

Surely it is better to stop people littering, than pick up after them? Why should it always be someone else's problem - people should take responsibility for their own rubbish, including fag-ends, fast food wrappers, and apple cores (imho).

When I was up in Glasgow last year, they introduced anti-litter patrols (link) (not because I was up there, the timing was coincidental

), because they were having to clear up 9 tonnes of litter some nights in the City Centre. An apple core here, a chip wrapper there, it soon adds up.

13-05-2008, 11:26	#40
foreverwar umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Leeds Services: Ex-NTL Bromley, TV XL, V+, STB, Broadband L (constant 9mb), SACM, Phone XL Posts: 9,123	Re: 18 hours in cell for discarded apple core Isn't that dealing with the symptoms, rather than dealing with the cause? Surely it is better to stop people littering, than pick up after them? Why should it always be someone else's problem - people should take responsibility for their own rubbish, including fag-ends, fast food wrappers, and apple cores (imho). When I was up in Glasgow last year, they introduced anti-litter patrols (link) (not because I was up there, the timing was coincidental ), because they were having to clear up 9 tonnes of litter some nights in the City Centre. An apple core here, a chip wrapper there, it soon adds up. __________________ Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available (Benford's law of controversy)