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AuthorScreamingFannyBaws
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Bollocks. I'm not letting people who litter off the hook at all. I'm just saying that they exist and we pay council tax so that people can be employed to clean up their shite. Crimes happen. It'd be nice if they didn't, but that kind of world doesn't exist and there isn't a hope in hell that it will. Therefore the police exist, tax payer funded, to deal with crime.

In other places I've lived the litter problem was far less severe in part due to the fact that the local authorities were much, much better at dealing with things. It was very easy to recycle, bins were emptied efficiently and on time and everyone had an incentive not to dispose of rubbish improperly. When I moved back here I found myself in the position of not being able to recycle at all. Everything goes in the same bin bag. The bin bag goes by the bin because the bin is full because it isn't emptied anywhere near enough. Years ago I could at least save up my glass bottles and take them to a bottle bank, but they've been removed.

If you think that we're getting an adequate service for the tax we pay, I have to disagree. I'm glad you're friendly with the litter pickers, and they do a fine job, but it's not enough to manage this city's problems with waste properly, not by a long shot. Of course it's complicated, and you're absolutely right to say that overflowing bins isn't the main problem, but the Council could certainly manage things a lot better than they are, and I feel that's an understatement.

Again, not defending cunts who litter - they're cunts.
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CreatedMon 24th Jan 2022 9:36pm
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