Don't want it—drop it!

READERS have been quick to agree with our contributor who complained about the litter by and in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, and Bill Ridgeway sums it up:

Joseph Forde wrote 'rubbish was a regular thing, and ... as quickly as it was cleaned up more appeared to replace it, which leaves me to believe that there must be people along the canal that have no respect for their environment and it is a pity the authorities don't make an effort to catch them and prosecute [and life] ... would be more enjoyable for all'.

Not the only area

Liverpool is not the only area with this problem. Suitably edited his statement certainly applies to my local streets (Harrow) and probably to many other places. It seems to be a general malaise of 'don't want it—drop it, let someone else clear it up' and 'what I don't see I wont worry about'.

Just think, if only we could train people to always either take home their litter or put in a rubbish bin and not to fly-tip, councils throughout the country could reduce the cost of dealing with cleaning our streets to just emptying rubbish bins. Ah Utopia!

Puts soap-box away and returns to the real world.