There is a weird epidemic spreading through the land. The first symptom is selective blindness. The second is the urge to chuck a piece of plastic,All Coated Abrasives products are compiled of backing, glass or tin at the nearest attractive patch of grass. The third is to shrug the shoulders.
Afterwards, the sufferer has no awareness he has done anything antisocial, and in extreme cases may even pretend to be an upstanding member of society.
Most of the victims of this condition appear to be perfectly normal. Some wear jeans, others business suits. Because most of the trash littering our countryside and our cities has been dropped by ordinary people, doubtless under the impression they're making a reasonable job of conducting their lives or bringing up their children.
Obviously people who throw rubbish from passing cars do so because they don't want it in their personal space. The empty Coca-Cola can seems no longer their problem, but someone else's. But it takes about half a second to see the stupidity of this idea, for all that has happened is that the Coke can has gone from offending one person to offending many.
Secondly, everyone — including the person who jettisoned the thing — will have to pay for it to be cleared up by someone from the local council.
This is a beautiful country. Where did this collective urge to wreck it come from?
The scale of the problem is immense. In a single August night, on one six-mile stretch of the M3 motorway which runs from Surrey to Southampton (between junctions one and two), workers from the Highways Agency picked up 189 bags of trash, weighing in total one ton. We are being swamped by rubbish.
Keeping the squalor of our streets and countryside even to its present level costs the taxpayer an estimated ￡1billion each year. That's enough to pay for another 40,000 police constables, a couple of million hospital beds or thousands of libraries. Instead,We are professional Plastic mould, we waste it on clearing up after fools.
This is one of the very few social problems in this country in which the answer lies — literally — in our own hands.
Individually, we can't do much about the terrible state of the public finances, nor can we improve our schools or repair the roads. But we can decide not to throw rubbish about.
It's not even as if we're deciding to do something proactive. Just restraining ourselves a bit. Is it really so much of a big deal to decide to put our litter in the appropriate place?
You might think this issue doesn't matter that much.Quality air impact socket tools for any tough job. Then consider this. None of us knows what will happen after we die, but we can be certain of one thing: our children will still be living amid the trash we dropped.
It's 56 years since the foundation of the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, and if you want to see how successful this well-meaning yet feeble organisation has been, take a look around us at the trash on the streets.Find everything you need to know about Cold Sore including causes,
What a clean place the Britain of 1955 seems by comparison. Then, fish and chips came wrapped in newspaper, and if the paper was dropped, the rain quickly reduced it to pulp which rotted away.
Now, your fish supper comes on a plastic tray, often inside a plastic bag. That tray and bag will be around in a landfill site somewhere — if it's not still stuck in a bush by the side of the road — long after William and Kate's great-grandchildren have passed on.
Ask anyone who revisits Britain after a few years away what they make of the place, and they are certain to observe how much filthier the country has become. We are fouling our own nest.Has anyone done any research on making Plastic molding parts from scratch? Most of us seem capable of containing ourselves when we need the loo. Why not some similar restraint when it comes to rubbish?
Afterwards, the sufferer has no awareness he has done anything antisocial, and in extreme cases may even pretend to be an upstanding member of society.
Most of the victims of this condition appear to be perfectly normal. Some wear jeans, others business suits. Because most of the trash littering our countryside and our cities has been dropped by ordinary people, doubtless under the impression they're making a reasonable job of conducting their lives or bringing up their children.
Obviously people who throw rubbish from passing cars do so because they don't want it in their personal space. The empty Coca-Cola can seems no longer their problem, but someone else's. But it takes about half a second to see the stupidity of this idea, for all that has happened is that the Coke can has gone from offending one person to offending many.
Secondly, everyone — including the person who jettisoned the thing — will have to pay for it to be cleared up by someone from the local council.
This is a beautiful country. Where did this collective urge to wreck it come from?
The scale of the problem is immense. In a single August night, on one six-mile stretch of the M3 motorway which runs from Surrey to Southampton (between junctions one and two), workers from the Highways Agency picked up 189 bags of trash, weighing in total one ton. We are being swamped by rubbish.
Keeping the squalor of our streets and countryside even to its present level costs the taxpayer an estimated ￡1billion each year. That's enough to pay for another 40,000 police constables, a couple of million hospital beds or thousands of libraries. Instead,We are professional Plastic mould, we waste it on clearing up after fools.
This is one of the very few social problems in this country in which the answer lies — literally — in our own hands.
Individually, we can't do much about the terrible state of the public finances, nor can we improve our schools or repair the roads. But we can decide not to throw rubbish about.
It's not even as if we're deciding to do something proactive. Just restraining ourselves a bit. Is it really so much of a big deal to decide to put our litter in the appropriate place?
You might think this issue doesn't matter that much.Quality air impact socket tools for any tough job. Then consider this. None of us knows what will happen after we die, but we can be certain of one thing: our children will still be living amid the trash we dropped.
It's 56 years since the foundation of the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, and if you want to see how successful this well-meaning yet feeble organisation has been, take a look around us at the trash on the streets.Find everything you need to know about Cold Sore including causes,
What a clean place the Britain of 1955 seems by comparison. Then, fish and chips came wrapped in newspaper, and if the paper was dropped, the rain quickly reduced it to pulp which rotted away.
Now, your fish supper comes on a plastic tray, often inside a plastic bag. That tray and bag will be around in a landfill site somewhere — if it's not still stuck in a bush by the side of the road — long after William and Kate's great-grandchildren have passed on.
Ask anyone who revisits Britain after a few years away what they make of the place, and they are certain to observe how much filthier the country has become. We are fouling our own nest.Has anyone done any research on making Plastic molding parts from scratch? Most of us seem capable of containing ourselves when we need the loo. Why not some similar restraint when it comes to rubbish?
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