Litter . Keep Britain Tidy ?

Our eldest daughter's first teaching job was in a central London comprehensive - late 90s. She saw a girl dropping her empty crisp bag on the floor so she told her to pick it up .
The cheeky madam replied "Do you want to do my Mum out of a job?"
Can't remember what the outcome was.

ps Her Mum was a school cleaner.

I am a litter picker in my village and my 'patch' covers a section with housing and one stretch on the edge of the village up to the boundary with no houses. The minute I get to the section out of sight of homes the litter level skyrockets, so clearly most of it is being flung out of moving cars. I find this utterly perplexing since its much easier to carry litter home if you are already in a car. Rather worryingly the most common litter is empty beer cans, hopefully not being drunk by those driving the cars, plus of course food wrappers of all kinds and fag packets. I also regularly get empty water bottles filled with urine and the cap screwed back on and fairly frequently baby nappies bursting at the seams with you know what. Fly tipping as well and we are only half a mile from a very large Council recycling and waste centre.

This reminds me of my daughter when she was about 5. We were in our local park and a large tattooed man with half his head shaved was walking a little way in front. He was eating a sandwich in a package from a supermarket and threw the carton to the ground and continued to munch on the final sandwich.
My daughter pulled her hand from mine and picked up the carton and ran after the man shouting Excuse Me, Excuse Me until he turned around She said I think you dropped this by an accident [one of her sayings at the time!] She beamed up at him. He looked at me then looked at her and said Thank You and stuffed it in his pocket. We still laugh about it now.

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My biggest hate now are disposable BBQs.
Reports from around the UK of these causing untold damage to moors/woodland/parks/beaches by ignorant and thoughtless people.

They should be banned. [anger]

Just saw pictures of the horrible litter left on Jurassic Beach in the past few days! This was a purposeful act by a crowd celebrating the end of the lockdown. What could possibly have made their acts okay in their minds?

This is one filthy country !
You could eat of the streets/roads in Singapore and you won't find filth at bus stops or anywhere for that matter. The people take a pride in their lovely country and don't have slobs like we have disrespecting everywhere. Spotless transport---and the best airlines in the world. SIA.

I saw the mounds of rubbish left behind by the slobs, in parks and on beaches it's an utter disgrace. These dirty people then get on public transport ! Then we wonder why there are so many germs lurking about.

Ilovedragonflies the post you are referring to did not happen in Japan but here years ago. An earlier poster's father used to wash a pupils hair because of nits. At my childrens village school in the 90s the teaching assistant finally treated 3 siblings hair with nit lotion because they were forever full of nits. All the parents were fed up with their children having nits time after time. Their mother had been asked many times to do something about it but she just ignored it. So no one was going to report the teaching assistant for assault. What made it worse was the that the mother who had long blonde hair was a rolypoly strippagram. I wonder how many men took nits home to their family after she had been all over them. The mind boggles.

A lot of you don’t seem to realise that Keep Britain Tidy never went away. Having been started by the Women’s Institute in the 1950’s it’s a registered charity, always been a bit white and middle class but has always tried hard with campaigning and work with local authorities, schools, other NGO’s and companies, with precious little support from government. And yes, I worked for KBT for 20 years, during which time the wheel was regularly reinvented but there were some major successes eg getting people to pick up dog poo, improving beaches and water quality but never managing to alter the yobbish British mindset of “I don’t care. Someone gets paid to pick up my c#@p.”

I am an early retired teacher and we gave litter picking duties instead of detentions. Very clean school

'Daisyboots'. Did you know head lice can cause anaemia in children and adults. It's horrible. I've seen it when working in GPs surgery.