Glass on the Streets

I feel that we should adopt the deposit system for glass bottles. Basically you pay extra when you buy the bottles and then get the money back when you return them. They do this in Canada and consequently there are virtually no glass bottles on the streets as anything that is left if picked up by homeless people for the money. It is the same with cans as well which cuts down on litter dramatically.
 
hyper_piper45 said:
I feel that we should adopt the deposit system for glass bottles. Basically you pay extra when you buy the bottles and then get the money back when you return them. They do this in Canada and consequently there are virtually no glass bottles on the streets as anything that is left if picked up by homeless people for the money. It is the same with cans as well which cuts down on litter dramatically.
Click to expand...

Aaah noticed there was some scheme something like that when I was in Detroit (yes I know its not Canada but guessing due to proximity its something thats crossed over) didn't really know what to make of it at the time.
 
Yeah quite a lot of the world does it. Saw an article on Coca Cola ditching their glass bottles in one South American country ( i think ) because no one was willing to pay the deposit on the bottles. Some bright marketing spark came up with the "distinctive branded" shaped plastic bag that they get their drinks poured into instead.
 
Why not get a broom out and do some legwork? Just because there may be people employed to sweep it up once a week doesn't mean people can't look after their own streets from time to time!
 
London tends to have a lot of broken glass on the streets, mostly in the areas which are busy with people stood outside pubs drinking.

If you cycle through Soho, Camden and Shoreditch its very common, one of the reasons you need tyres which offer better puncture protection.

I believe they do have rules on cleaning the streets up quite quickly. I live very close to the Emirates stadium and I know that they get fined if they haven't removed glass from the road within a certain number of hours of a game finishing.

Anywhere else in the country which doesn't have as frequent street sweeping, you are probably best doing as others have said and go through the relevant council channel.
 
Can't say that I have noticed much broken glass around here.

As for the bottle idea, unless they stopped it then they at least used to give you some money back when you returned glass bottles.
 
Ran into 3 patches of broken glass on a 9 mile ride yesterday, I think I got away with it cause most was really ground up car window looking stuff.
 
I feel like spreading glass around the roads outside my house to stop people parking there and blocking access to the entrance to the flats car parking area.
 
there's a bmx track minutes from my house.. two days ago during the night someone smashed like 10 bottles of w/e right after jumps.. :| if i saw who did it.. god would need to spare them..
 
In Bristol there was glass EVERYWHERE, then I lived in HK for a bit and there was nothing and now moved to London and there's far less then I have imagined there would be.

But yes I RAGE every time I see that as I used to cycle all the time and get punctures every 2 weeks in Bristol :(... Screw children and pets WILL SOMEONE THINK OF MY TIRES!
 
grudas said:
there's a bmx track minutes from my house.. two days ago during the night someone smashed like 10 bottles of w/e right after jumps.. :| if i saw who did it.. god would need to spare them..
Click to expand...

They regularly do that in our local park. Only not just at the BMX trails. They also break bottles and stamp it into the ground on the football pitches. If you go down for a kick about you have to inspect around the goal mouth, 18 yard box and centre circle. My older brother pointed out that it's been going on since he was a kid, so the young drinkers are passing along the ritual of getting drunk and ****ing up the pitch to younger people. It reminds me of chimps learning to bang rocks to open nuts.
 
Thats why Newcastle Broon bottles are the hardest substance known to man. I have seen these bounce after being thrown 2 full stories in an arc. Bounced from the concrete.
 
In Copenhagen this is one of my main gripes, we have the deposit system for glass and plastic, but a lot of glass (and some plastics) are not accepted, so it seems the default to smash them on the roads, cycle lanes, parks, and pavements instead. Within my first month of being here I had replaced 5 inner tubes and two tyres on my bike. Its literally everywhere! Most of it is bottles but plenty of car glass also. Being that you're allowed to carry open alcohol containers here, and the sheer amount of cyclists, you sometimes get the two mixing and when they inevitably fall off they end up smashing both themselves and their containers into the cycle lanes. Fun.
 
Manchester is terrible for this. You probably don't notice it until you start cycling about the place, but I'm constantly having to dodge patches of broken glass on my way to and from work.
 
Have you reported it to the council, most council websites allow you to report litter.

If you haven't what you complaining about, they can't check every street, every day.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom