What gets your goat?

Jackie

What gets my goat is people who throw their rubbish down on the ground as if they think it's their right to do so! Even when there are rubbish bins around such as a few yards away from a seat they have been sitting on, they just leave their rubbish on or under the seat! Too far for them to walk to.

My suburb is littered with rubbish of all kinds. Glass beer bottles, cans, paper rubbush, fast food rubbish. I pick up bottles and cans from around the outside of the Seniors' complex I live in, and take them to my recycle bin, or if I'm on my way to or back from the shops and recycle bins are out for collection, I'll pick bottles up along the way and put them into the bins, as glass is one thing I don't like to leave lying around.

If everyone did their bit like this, it would help, but if the culprits didn't do it in the first place, it would be even better. A lot of people don't pick other people's rubbish up because they just think that they didn't put it there, so why should they, but I really don't like to see it, and do care, so I do pick it up.

I don't know why people don't want to feel proud of their city and keep it free of rubbish. The council are just as bad, as I've emailed about it a few times, but rarely is anything done! There is a 'kerb-side pick-up' coming around soon, but whenever there is one, our road seems to get missed, so they can't be going all around the suburb - just being selective!

Rubbish gets thrown into the shrubbery on the outside of our complex or gets blown there by the wind, and people also throw things out of their cars onto the nature strips as they go past. I and a couple of other residents used to pick this up regularly, but we got tired of it,and it got to be too much rubbish at one point.

I just pick up the bottles and cans now and take them back to my bin. Council did it once when I emailed, but nothing regularly, so don't know whose responsibility it is, unless it's the Housing people that own the complex.