Litter is a big problem in my city

But the municipality came up with a solution: ask the national government to allow local governments to raise the fine for littering from €160 to €1000. Small detail: the past year only 12 littering tickets where handed out because enforcement officers focus most of their time on illegal parking.

Ok... Before asking for federal law changes, maybe you could start enforcing the currently available laws. That already helped quite a bit in other cities and if you're not going to give people the higher fines either, their effect will probably be very limited. 🙄

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HootyTheNightOwl

But... That's nonsense... surely you don't expect them to get off their butts and do something about it too???

Isn't the threat of being fined so much enough to scare you into taking your litter home with you???

NerdyPotato · M

@HootyTheNightOwl the biggest problem isn't cans and sandwich wrappers, but furniture and appliances. Clearly all those lazy people don't feel like carrying that to the dump 5 miles away and pay €30 there. Who figured?

HootyTheNightOwl

@NerdyPotato They're lucky... Here, we would get to the dump with it and be grilled on why we're taking it there in the first place - then, they might refuse to accept it and you have to go three miles in the other direction to try your luck there and if you don't look like you're about to burst into tears, they'll likely refuse it, too. Oh yeah, both now charge to take some items off you, too.

So then you have to pay £33 for up to 5 items (or £24 if it contains foam). Remember that old chair that fell apart on STBX??? Well... it's still sitting out in the garden because I can't be bothered with that and I don't have enough rubbish to swindle a free skip out of the landlord.