Rubbish
Rubbish: what do you do with yours?
Every day we are told about the sorry state of the planet. We are advised by intelligent people and politicians that we are facing a crisis. Global warming is a reality. Climatic change will be unchanging. The environment needs our help.
So, why is it that when travelling on public transport it feels as though we are doing so in a bubble. It is as environmentally unfriendly as the rest of the outside world and yet it hasn't seemed to make the same connections. I went to London yesterday with my daughter who is ten. She walked the length of the train to find somewhere to put her used sweet papers. The sparsely distributed bins were overflowing almost as soon as we got on. Quite distressed, she reported back on people just dumping used papers and crisp packets all over the floor.
Approaching Cambridge, one side of the track was fronted by piles and piles of rubbish, variously blowing away in the wind. Apart from an obvious fire hazard, do these people not realise the damage this can do to wildlife and drainage systems - natural or otherwise?
In London, you try and find a rubbish bin on a mainline station or anywhere at all on the Underground? I understand the background of terrorist threats from the IRA, when they were removed. But we are told that this threat has itself been removed now. The terrorist signatures of 9/11 and 7/7 are on a different scale altogether. Presumably cost, then, is why there are still no rubbish bins and why the system is littered like never before?
The state of our planet is not just about future big picture change. It is about day to day sketches in the here and now. Rubbish? What will you be able to do with yours today?
Every day we are told about the sorry state of the planet. We are advised by intelligent people and politicians that we are facing a crisis. Global warming is a reality. Climatic change will be unchanging. The environment needs our help.
So, why is it that when travelling on public transport it feels as though we are doing so in a bubble. It is as environmentally unfriendly as the rest of the outside world and yet it hasn't seemed to make the same connections. I went to London yesterday with my daughter who is ten. She walked the length of the train to find somewhere to put her used sweet papers. The sparsely distributed bins were overflowing almost as soon as we got on. Quite distressed, she reported back on people just dumping used papers and crisp packets all over the floor.
Approaching Cambridge, one side of the track was fronted by piles and piles of rubbish, variously blowing away in the wind. Apart from an obvious fire hazard, do these people not realise the damage this can do to wildlife and drainage systems - natural or otherwise?
In London, you try and find a rubbish bin on a mainline station or anywhere at all on the Underground? I understand the background of terrorist threats from the IRA, when they were removed. But we are told that this threat has itself been removed now. The terrorist signatures of 9/11 and 7/7 are on a different scale altogether. Presumably cost, then, is why there are still no rubbish bins and why the system is littered like never before?
The state of our planet is not just about future big picture change. It is about day to day sketches in the here and now. Rubbish? What will you be able to do with yours today?
posted by Fencreative at 11:11 AM
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