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"Hospitalized", whilst correct, comes across more as media spin when all it was is that they went to Hospital for a tetanus shot. Which is the wording that was repeatedly used by politicians and reporters without giving the context of just what hospitalization actually meant. :/

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There was a bin put in place in my area because they expanded the local stadium and the fans littered so much. That bin was always full, so the Council's solution was to just remove the bin instead of upping the number of collections. Now yes, the fans continue to litter the streets.

Elsewhere, outside of another Stadium there's loads of bins that are empty, and yet there's tonnes of rubbish in the streets left behind by fans regardless.

Is the problem then the lack of bins, or people being clatty?

In one of the locations mentioned where an incident took place you see people driving up and dumping their rubbish in the local business' bins (which are left unlocked). Or staff just pilling up rubbish themselves. The bins were lifted regularly (at least the ones used by the businesses. Can't speak for homes), the amount of rubbish being put out however exceeds the collections. Instead of the businesses dumping the rubbish themselves (as a private individual would be expected to if they overfilled their bins), they expect the Council to increase the number of collections.

Which is why this issue may be a societal problem, paired with the Council not wanting to break the budget with more collections. If people are wilfully creating a mess then that's not the Council's fault, even if they are culpable in reducing services due to budget constraints.