Stop that litter lout!

Have the manufacturing & sales industry remove the use of all  packaging for items where possible. My grandson just opened his Easter egg, the amount of packaging was ridiculous and totally unnecessary. What a waste of time money and the environments resources not to mention rubbish now in bin..

Agree there's far too much unnecessary packaging.

Out of interest has anyone heard/seen in the paper/witnessed in court a prosecution for littering?  We had a couple of instances mentioned in the local paper years ago about cigarette butts when fines were introduced or upped. Nothing since. Just looks like 'they're' doing something 😤😭

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One day, one day this site will work well 😂. After all it is April Fools Day and before noon. However clever the IT staff must be to get that programme written 😉

Increasing fines on it's own will stop nothing. The fly tippers and litter louts need to be caught. then punished.   It is not a job for the police, it's the responsibility of the local councils..One suggestion is  :-  Use the thousands of unemployed to patrol designated areas and report the registration numbers of fly tippers  to the council. There are other methods of catching litter louts. Just needs the councils to get off their backsides and take action.

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Blame the council, too easy and a lame get out in my opinion. They would also need the support of us Council Tax payers to use our monies on this problem or additional ring fenced funding from central government. How many of us would agree to this? Oh, and then the unemployed are 'implicated' by some association it seems! No matter how we look at it 'we' are the problem.

 This is not an April fool but an idea to reduce an ever growing problem.

Change the colour of poo bags to bright pink - hopefully the guilty parties might think twice about cluttering our town and countrysides if the bag was always visible and not semi camouflaged.

Plymouth have introduced  "litter patrols" (environmental enforcement officers) with on the spot fines and it's apparently starting to work. £13000 collected in the first week. Driving past Plymouth on the A38 is one of the worst areas I have ever seen for roadside litter.

Fly tippers vehicles should be confiscated and crushed.  

Got to be careful not to turn this political

There is no money available for the chasing of litter louts, the picking through fly tipping etc. Increasing the fines could help pay for this labour, but only if the fines (income) were allocated into the right place.

My local council employ a company who are supposed to enforce both litter and dog poop rules. It's a nice little earner for them. Unfortunately I've not heard of any action against dog owners but there are lots of reports of people being fined for dropping a single piece of paper or cigarette end. There were 4 cases in court last week where once you add on costs to the fine is over £400. In the same reports that's more than some people get fined for assault or theft. Clearly littering is considered a more serious offence.