I've been trying to get back to walking quite a bit and since some hedge cutting has been done on my routes, I've noticed some rubbish. I normally don't bring a bag to collect it all but I have been collecting deposit bottles. They're not that common that I'd need a bag and it's a bit of change for a reward coffee etc.
Do you think the deposit scheme has reduced littering? When you get a single can or bottle, do you keep it to deposit or do you just put it in general waste? |
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We don't have the option up here but I always recycle bottles and cans.
I can only speak about the amount of rubbish I see when I'm out on the mountains and it's ridiculous and frustrating. If it's one or two items we will lift it and take it back with us but in recent times I've seen bin bags full of rubbish just dumped at sites that are used for wild camping as well as tents and camping equipment.
Just last weekend I saw a black bag full of blue disposable gloves and very randomly a medicine ball in a remote carpark so someone had driven a few miles off the beaten track passed a local recycling centre and dumped it all.
We were just hiking through and had no transport near so couldn't lift it. |
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By *og-ManMan 20 weeks ago
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I have always recycled at home and actually got an extra green bin from the council so that I filled 2 every 2 weeks for collection
Since the new scheme came in I've only every filled one bin every 2 weeks
All plastic bottles back to the machine to get the deposit back and help pay for my coffee in the morning on the way to work
Definitely think it's cut down on the number of plastic bottles being discarded as you don't notice any while walking my dogs |
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By *aseylee324Couple 20 weeks ago
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"We don't have the option up here but I always recycle bottles and cans.
I can only speak about the amount of rubbish I see when I'm out on the mountains and it's ridiculous and frustrating. If it's one or two items we will lift it and take it back with us but in recent times I've seen bin bags full of rubbish just dumped at sites that are used for wild camping as well as tents and camping equipment.
Just last weekend I saw a black bag full of blue disposable gloves and very randomly a medicine ball in a remote carpark so someone had driven a few miles off the beaten track passed a local recycling centre and dumped it all.
We were just hiking through and had no transport near so couldn't lift it. "
See this frequently on mountain walks down this way. |
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Where I am there is fly tipping of clothes, electrical goods and people clearing out houses. Now 1 spot clothes have been dump 4 times ,all good clothing. But here is the funny part, to get to this spot on all routes are clothing banks. Which cost nothing. As for the electrical stuff, it's free to bring to the dump and any electrical shop takes in old goods. They have too, if you buy new from them.
But people will drive out to the countryside and dump them and then drive into town where there are bring centres lol. It costs them more to dump in petrol .Some people ate ignorant and stupid |
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So while I did that post I was walking in the city. Not far at all from really lovely areas to walk and eat there is at least a skip worth of rubbish. Some of it has been dumped in private property. It's practically on the river bed so it could easily flow out to the sea. It's honestly depressing. |
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I know someone who runs a business guiding people on hiking trips. He also teaches classes for hiking groups on "leave no trace" and he told me a while back that he was amazed at how many people don't understand that principle.
Even leaving things like apple cores, banana skins and orange peel has a negative effect on the local environment and manmade biodegradable products can still take many years to break down.
He has an ongoing experiment on a mountainside with numerous items that most people would class as natural and therefore safe. He has regular updates on social media that show that all of the items look almost identical to how they were when he left them out 2 years ago.
I asked him if he was not guilty of littering by doing this and he said it was the only way of getting the message out and he had the backing of the "Leave no trace" community. |
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"I know someone who runs a business guiding people on hiking trips. He also teaches classes for hiking groups on "leave no trace" and he told me a while back that he was amazed at how many people don't understand that principle.
Even leaving things like apple cores, banana skins and orange peel has a negative effect on the local environment and manmade biodegradable products can still take many years to break down.
He has an ongoing experiment on a mountainside with numerous items that most people would class as natural and therefore safe. He has regular updates on social media that show that all of the items look almost identical to how they were when he left them out 2 years ago.
I asked him if he was not guilty of littering by doing this and he said it was the only way of getting the message out and he had the backing of the "Leave no trace" community. "
I did some volunteering last year, cleaning by a trail. I seriously wonder who thought biodegradable bags was a good idea. People will pick up dog poop to literally flick the bag over a wall or something a minute later. |
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Even leaving things like apple cores, banana skins and orange peel has a negative effect on the local environment and manmade biodegradable products can still take many years to break down.
He has an ongoing experiment on a mountainside with numerous items that most people would class as natural and therefore safe. "
would have always thought apple cores and stuff would been grand. Learn something new every day! |
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