Should Mcdonalds Print Car Registration Numbers On Bags?

[naomi24]

//A farmer is calling on McDonald’s to print customers’ car registrations on its drive-thru takeaway bags, to deter people from littering the countryside with them.//

https://www.metro.news/farmer-wants-mcdonalds-to-id-litterbugs-on-its-bags/1810411/

Good idea?

[ummmm]

Biodegradable doesn't fix the problem. The area it's dropped in still looks a mess.

A new Mcdonalds opened not too far from me. The got planning permission on the premise that new bins are provided in the local area along with litter pickers. It's right next door to a nature reserve and the local residents are up in arms about the amount of rubbish dropped all over the place.

Number plates won't help as it's mainly school children.

[vulcan42]

In theory but not practice. My local council employ people to pick up the rubbish at the roadside, when those littering are challenged they say they're giving people employment.
A fast food shop in my local town has a bin beside their entrance, I've seen people walk past the bin and immediately throw the wrapper onto the pavement. With attitudes like these is there anything that will deter littering? Anti littering has to be installed in children at an early age but as the vast majority of parents have seemingly abrogated their responsibility to teach children anything, perhaps it falls to schools, yet again, to tackle the problem.

[douglas9401]

"...why don’t they take it straight to the council tip?"

That's right up there with 'does God exist?' and 'If a tree falls in a forest...'. :-)

[ummmm]

Naomi - because they have to pay.

[naomi24]

Someone dumped an old fridge by the bottle bank at our local Tescos recently. I mean - honestly!!! What are these people? I reported it and there's a sign and a camera there now.

[naomi24]

ummmm, they don't have to pay to dump mattresses and fridges and other household items at the council tips. I've even seen an old toilet and cistern dumped in a field. Those things can be dumped at the tip free of charge.

[ummmm]

Depends what vehicle you're using. We've been checked at the tip loads of times because we've gone in a works van.

Mattresses, fridges etc could be seen as house clearances. I think it also depends on your council.

[naomi24]

Yes, works vans are viewed with suspicion, but I think at our tip it depends what they're carrying. A load of hardcore would be refused, but a mattress and a fridge wouldn't.

[david small]

Unfortunately unless there are consequences to littering that are stringently enforced. Casual indifference, and blatant disregard to their own hygiene and environment will ensue. They don’t care, unless it effects them personally. ‘Shame’, they don’t know the word.

[woofgang]

Naomi even private cars are viewed with suspicion in some areas. I have a friend who was visitng her mum and clearing her garden one weekend. Her car is small so she made several tip journeys and after the third she got stopped and questioned. Locally businesses not only need a licence, they need to pay per load taken to the tip.

[hc4361]

Our council charges tradespeople to use the tips. My gardener friend has to pay to use it, as does my decorator friend and my builder.

[naomi24]

Ours does too, hc.

Council tips are getting fussier - and that does nothing to combat the problem. Quite the reverse.

[Khandro]

Instead of everyone moaning, why not start an AB campaign of action (a first?), by buying one of these inexpensive items;

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I can recommend it, it folds in the middle and can be carried in a coat pocket,. It wont deal with naomi's w.c. in a field, but with a paper, or bio-degradable bag, we can all make the word a tiny bit better.

What happened btw, to Maggie's, 'keep Britain Tidy' campaign?

[TheDevil]

This one has some good reviews.

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[CrapAtCryptics]

Near me a lot of the farm compounds are full of old boxes, dereict buildings and machinery so farmers could do their bit.

[Khandro]

The Devil: It's more substantial looking, but the one I recommend & use, has the advantage of folding in half, so when out walking you are not encumbered by it, also it will pick up very small objects with accuracy.
I originally bought one to retrieve golf balls from thorn bushes & brambles etc. which it also does well.

[naomi24]

//Instead of everyone moaning, why not start an AB campaign of action (a first?), by buying one of these inexpensive items; //

Khandro, the villages here organise regular litter picks - and you'd be amazed what the pickers pick - from McDonald's bags, to plastic bags of dog waste hung in trees, to Coca Cola bottles filled with urine and thrown in ditches by the lorry driving owners. The country people do their best to keep the country clean.

[hc4361]

There are bands of volunteer litter pickers where I live, too. I help litter pick at my local park.

[Arrods]

How about the takeaways levying a refundable £10 surcharge on their stuff? Thought not. :-)

[ToraToraTora]

good idea