How Did The Countryside End Up Like This? - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2025
- How Filthy Is The British Countryside - Part 1
As the only road throuh my town is shut down due to a sink hole. I decided to take my wheelbarrow, and see how much rubbish we could pick up on as we head towards the local tip.
I live out in the countryside, so this literally is the only road to get to each town, which made it even more shocking with just how much rubbish found. I couldn't believe how little I travelled and how many bin bags I filled.
This is going to have to be a series as I barely made it over 200m and the tip is over a mile away, so be prepared for some more serious barrow action coming soon.
Until Next Time,
W.T
#britain #shocking #rubbish #wheelbarrow
What a load of rubbish 😂
Get a friend and do one side of the road each - gameify it
😂😂😂😂😂
wow what a good joke 🤣*lies*
I caanot believe I watched someone collecting rubbish and really enjoyed it, you are truly a star well done, more rubbish please :)
How about you do the same in your neighbourhood while having a walk? Maybe a park close to ya? Don't enjoy watching it. DO IT.
Trust me, it will kick your morale up AF.
This is the real shit I come to UA-cam for. I regret that I have only one like to give. Selflessly shining a light on how we are a nation of scrubbers, 10/10 will watch WT recycle anytime, I hope you get a million views on this vid ❤
You're a legend thanks so much 👏
@@wanderingturnipgood on you mate for cleaning up and leading the way ❤️👍🇬🇧
the man deserves a full can of Gordon’s gin & tonic for his efforts 😂❤
This video has it all; Love, humour, wheelbarrow disaster, G&T cans in a scenic setting. Top content! ❤
Full acknowledgement Sir.
You deserve a letter of gratitude from your local Council
Favourite video you've done so far
Thank you so much 😀
Welcome to the world of Volunteer litter picking! If you are still interested, there is a large community on Facebook and UA-cam of volunteers who go out on a regular basis. I personally find it so satisfying to do it and give back to the community I live in! Your local council may be able to give you some equipment to do this, too, along with ways to get rid of the bags without putting them in your car!
We have a voluntary group 'KEEP FILEY TIDY'. If we have collected a load of stuff on a community pick, we ring the council and they collect. We use grabbers for ease of picking. We get lots of verbal thanks from passers' by, like you did.
@@jeanniewilliams1937 Same here! The council are very supportive mainly due to a lack of funding that central gov is giving and what small amount they can put aside helps us to keep our city tidy!
Councils should be the ones sending litter pickers out like they always used to, not leaving it up to us to do it. Don't see so much as a road sweeper anymore. You go into any city these days and the streets are covered in grime. Broken Britain.
@@LifeofBrad1 Shouldn't be litter there in the first place then nothing would need to be picked up....
@lifeofBrad1 This used to be the way before the Tory austerity funding cuts to local authorities. Same with the drain clearance hence the flooding.
Good on you for doing something positive for the community - even though it shouldn't be necessary if people were not such untidy despicable pigs.
Your viewers come back to your channel because of your infectious personality ; whether you're talking about depressed shopping arcades, awesome chimneys - or now, litter picking on your way to the tip, we're all here for you.
I was a member of Keep Wales Tidy living in mid Wales.
The first time I litter picked a two mile stretch of low trafficked country road I was shocked at the number of bags that I filled. It illustrated just how careless people can be.
There was an arrangement with Powys refuse collection service that we could use their brown refuse sacks (provided free to KWT) and have them collected with my own household rubbish.
Well done for taking on this service to your community.
It is very satisfying to know that you have improved your local environment and more enjoyable if you are sharing the work with someone else.
Unfortunately there are a newer generation of disrespectful people who think it’s ok to chuck their crap out anywhere. People, please install manners and decent behaviour into your children. This man is a hero, thank you.
The last few generations took a similar attitude to dumping stuff in the atmosphere. Not really a new thing
True, if everyone put their rubbish in the proper place at least that’s a start.
that’s a weird way to say indians
Littering and fly tipping is nothing new. Scrubbers have been doing it forever.
I was part of litter clean up squad organised by the local council in 1987, just as bad back then, tons of rubbish picked up near roadside in the country. We also did beach cleaning and that was also bad.
Posting this before we watch this video. My partner and I were just saying how much we love just how random your videos now are. Brilliant content. Gonna watch it now.
Love that! To be honest keeping the content random and fresh is what keeps me going and excited about making stuff, so it's nice to know it's appreciated 😃😃 thank you 👏👏
@@wanderingturnipI like it too. The constant is you.
I live in a Spanish pueblo where the bins are emptied twice a day (midday and midnight) and the roads and litter are cleaned every morning. Dog crap is the biggest issue and flytipping on the campo. The local Ayuntamiento is in charge off this, so all done locally. Fridges/sofas are picked up free of charge on 2nd and 17th of the month. It's like being back in 60s UK.
Gosh. We had to wait 15 days for our food waste to be collected this Christmas. I don't mind the unrecyclable rubbish collection being two weeks although they're talking about making it three weeks now but waiting 15 days for food waste to be collected is just unhygienic.
Second channel time : Wombling Turnip!
Great work David, unreal the amount of rubbish infesting the countryside these days..
People here in UK are indifferent to litter. It's always someone else's job to pick it up mentality so they continue to do it. Worst is fast food like Macdonald's all over the roads
I can never figure out why people pick up their dog poo in a bag and then fling it into the bushes, whats the point, they would have been better off leaving the poo where it is for the rain to wash away, or better still put the bloody poo bag in a bin.
Wasn’t aware I could do this but this particular video has inspired me to get back out into the world. 🫡
THANK YOU, David for making this video!!! As an American who visits England on a regular basis, I am SHOCKED at the amount of litter I see in your beautiful country! Hopefully this video will raise awareness . I am intrigued by the psychology of this phenomenon, as Spain and other places are completely the opposite, so clean and tidy. What motivates people to litter or not to litter??? This series could potentially have many episodes as you explore this universal problem.
Litter has gone up here in the UK since mass immigration. I am not saying British people don't drop litter but there is a noticeable increase in litter and way more fly tipping in the past year or so here in Essex and also in Surrey.
There ae too many 'foreigners' in the UK who have no respect for our country. I once saw a group of Asian lads in an Impreza in London, through out a load of McDonalds waste whilst still moving.
Well, he's going to have to keep doing it now! He has kind of made a rod for his own back :) .
@@beckyb76563 While there may be some truth to that in more urban areas - I promise you there is no ethnic diversity to the scumbags littering where I live. They are, what YOU may term, 'the real English'. It's a fault with the ethical core - got nothing to do with a person's skin colour or genetic heritage. They are 'Proper British' no marks that are littering in my locale.
I live in a small Spanish village and our streets are spotless for the most part. Swept daily. And there is an Englishman here who carries a sack which he fills with litter in the nearby countryside as he walks his dog...
If you live in west Yorkshire you have probably seen the old lane mill. If not it is definitely worth going and having a look at. It had been out of use for ages and has currently started construction. I'm guessing they are going to turn in into flats. But it's still great to see as my great grandma worked in this mill for so many years of her life. Anyway love your videos keep it up!
Thank you for what you do. You are inspirational. Need more people like you in the world.
Your public spirit has no bounds. As a local Councillor in the Southwest, litter depresses me so much. We do what we can with such limited Council Tax resources and there are many volunteers who take part in litter picks across our city. Well done David! Calderdale may lend you litter picking gear such as more resilient bags, pickers and gloves. Even hi-viz!
This is a fantastic thing you are doing. I spent 20 years working for my local council and if I had a pound for every bin bag I filled, I'd be very wealthy. I have always been a fan of your channel but this makes me admire your work more. Thank you on behalf of all the little pickers
I've said it before and I will say it again, you sir are a natural presenter/ entertainer! In all seriousness I have to say, thier are so many bloody peasants who just dont care about the world around them. Great video as always.😊
I'm from south east Ireland and do regular trash picks on the roads in my area. All it takes is a few wrongins to destroy the natural beauty.
We now have deposit/return scheme for bottles & cans and it has definitely made a difference.
Thanks
I used to be a councillor in a small town in West Yorkshire and used to orangise regular litter pick up along the canal towpath, the banks of a stream and round the edges of the local park. It never ceased to amaze me how much rubbish people leave and what we would find.
I got a litter picker and went round my local area, I was shocked at the amount of litter 😮 you need to protect your back! That was last year, I collected about 6 bin liners full, and now the area is a shit heap again, so I will be doing it again, in Hull
Endless battle in the north east. People don't give a crap.
Wandering Barrow 🎉🎉🎉 ....... excellent community work mate, if only everyone had the same respect for our land. Massive thanks ❤
disgusting how people can disrespect their county like this. one of the reasons I left uk, its not a nice place to be anymore
My dad came from Middlesex
I wouldn't treat any country like that never mind my own, its mostly down to the parents though
Don't come back
@connorgifford-andrews1322 my dad came from the Isle of man 😊
@@lervish1966 why you jealous? you can leave too you know
Magical! So beautiful to see citizens going out their way to make the world a better place. Thank You
Until someone comes along and ruins it again.
I used to be a lengthsman for my local parish, duties included clearing drainage runnels, cleaning and trimming round road signs and litterpicking. I worked the lanes, no main roads or B roads. It was obvious that a lot of the litter was from only a few individuals who drove the lanes a lot, the same items thrown in the same places. As it happens there was one particluar spot where the was dozens and dozens of small gin and tonic cans. I speculated that someone must have been drinking on their way to or from home and chucking the cans to hide the fact from their partner.
We’ve seen the same thing while picking the country roads.
Often thought that some poor soul finds that quite place for a quick half bottle of vodka on lunch breaks.
I found the same phenomenon many times in the lanes of Hertfordshire and wondered what was going on. There's some interesting research there to be done on the number of drivers (possibly thousands) with a glove box full of miniatures and favourite spot to 'take the edge off' before heading home or to work.
You are a star. Keep up the great work. Just reminded me of when we were kids. We'd collect aluminum cans and save them up in a 25 gallon drum. When it was full we'd take it to the scrap man and get a few quid. Maybe a vid challenge ?
The wombling turnip ❤ very sad to see the amount of rubbish.
Thanks
As a member and f Keep Darwen Tidy we have collected just over 49,000 bags over the years, just imagine what the town would look like, it never ends. P.S. good on you 👏👏
Good man! I pick up litter too, get many strange looks but I hate seeing it everywhere. On New Years' Eve I filled three black bags just walking around a local "open space" i.e. large area of grass, I'd been picking up the odd can here and there for weeks but with the wind due in later that evening I wanted to get all the plastic picked up before the wind blew some of it away.
Picking litter by hand from the ground will have you drenched in sweat in a couple of hours too. Amazing exercise.. Remember to stay hydrated. I filled approximately 10 large plastic (gardening?) bags with litter over the summer, walking in my local hilly terrain. Must have logged at least 10 miles by foot searching for little litte pieces of trash that exist in places that rarely or never gets cleaned. It's satisfying time spent because of the exercise and the goodhearted nature of the activity.
Well done to you, I also pick litter daily (it seems to regenerate overnight). Many people come up and thank me, but there must be millions that just treat this beautiful planet we are lucky be be on as a rubbish dump. The more people start to realise we are on a finite planet, which can only take so much, the better for all humans and other animals on it. As Joni Mitchel sung "You don't know what you've got till its gone".
We're in a lot of trouble. What people don't realise (I hope it's just that they don't realise) is that with, particularly, the plastics - those plastics fall apart and infiltrate the soil and eventually the water. They don't biodegrade - they just become fragments too small to handle and eventually notice. What happens to them, when disposed of properly, might not be wonderful but at least when they're all known about and in designated areas - there's a chance they can be processed more safely. We're poisoning the soil and water we need to survive.
Glad you did this… anytime I go away and come back the one thing that irritates me the most is the state of litter everywhere..it stands out more and I can’t imagine what visitors think.
Motorway hard shoulders, normal streets, green areas are all a disgrace. I’ve been out and gathered 3 or 4 bags in about 100meters… you should get a litter picker to save your back. Personally I think local councils should make the fast food outlets pay for this… the majority of what I get is from Maccies, subway, Costa, Greggs and Starbucks.. all local to me. If they want to have a shop they should be paying for the clean up in their areas. Keep it up mate but be ready for it to be never ending. Great video
The government can apply taxes, to fast and processed food, for supposedly health reasons - so why can't it do the same to pay for cleaning up what their patrons discard on roadsides? It's a similar situation where I live only I live about forty miles from the nearest fast food outlets. I think people go to their FF restaurant, buy their chicken nuggets or whatever, and then have a nice drive out to the countryside to throw their litter out of the car window.
Turnip needs a, yes, litter picker stick for reaching into bushes and over walls. A sturdier, two front wheels, cart type thing. Much stronger bin bags, and a resignation that he will probably have to keep doing this for the rest of his life. The dirty baggages, casually tossing their waste aside, aren't going to ever stop being dirty baggages.
And people are quick to have a go at the local councils for not clearing up the litter but those vehicles aren't designed to deal with the almost perverse natures of the litter droppers (they put their rubbish in bushes and throw it right back from the roadsides). Certain things start becoming swiftly friable, like carrier bags and paper items, and the grass grows over them - they fall to pieces when trying to pick them up. That bit of the job, I think, is best attempted when the weather is warmer. Frozen earth partially covering a discarded carrier bag is a nightmare to deal with. Winter is ideal for picking up cans and bottles (because we can really see them and they don't fall apart).
Also, Turnip, how about some pre written stickers for your bags to say something like "Don't worry - this is litter collected from the roadside and I'm coming back for it." and then you don't have to keep returning to that one hidden spot (which you may lose track of) to pile your filled bags up. You could then put the bags, once they're filled, on the walls or something without worrying either that people are going to see you and think you are fly tipping or that you're going to forget where they were. That was fifty meters so it wouldn't have been too difficult to keep carrying the filled bags to the same spot. When it's four miles of litter collecting - you won't be able to do that. Also, maybe the wheelbarrow/cart isn't going to be as useful as you imagine. I just walk around carrying my refuse sack. Much more mobile!
Thank you, excellent effort!
Hope this will catch on looks like fun too✌️🐸👌
I found a glass bottle full of apple juice at the side of the road yesterday. Think it was an artisan brand as it tasted really funny.
Mr Turnip, a few years ago I found a McDonald's bag up Mytholm Steeps whilst on a job at work. There was a receipt in it which was from 238 miles away. I forget the name of the town now, but someone brought it all the way to the Steeps and decided to dump it. I wonder how many bins they went past on route.
If you haven't already got them I'd consider investing in some needle proof gloves,as who knows what's lurking. Great video thx .
No such thing. The heavy leather glove is one of best sharps resistant. Or use a remote picker, but they're a faff.
@asilver2889 that's great sweetheart x
Funny, I've very recently started doing the same on my road (only bags though no wheelbarrow as I'm on a fairly steep hill.). Also brought a shovel to clear years of soil buildup in the gutters and scoop leaves into landscape trees that will love the nourishment. Anyway, the rubbish is annoying to see so nice to bag it up but once you start and think "oh at least a half a bag there" ...2-3 full bags later I had to leave them and come back with the car to get them! And then over New Year's, new garbage already tossed by literal and figurative "Tossers"! from their cars😠. The trash here is a clue to the type of people who toss trash - mostly McDonalds food/cup trash, 7-11, booze bottles (all sorts) cigs and vapes!🤷♂️
That was an amazing act of service for your locality. Looking forward to part 2 of Me and My Barrow
I've got to admit, i was worried when i saw the title and thumbnail that it was going to be one of these negative videos i see a lot of these days slagging an area and dramatising it for views... i'm so glad that wasnt what this was! Brilliant video and well done for doing something to help. You're always fun to watch anyway, but this has probably inspired quite a few to go do similar tasks in their local areas. It's really sad to see just how many people litter to this extent, it makes no sense to me, why ruin where you live???
Keep up the great work! 👏
Thank you for setting such a great example for fellow citizens. This video made me subscribe to your channel.
During lockdown, i spent a few weekends cleaning up rubbish across a nearby canal... my idea was id do a bit of a stretch each week... turns out though that rubbish just grows in nature. It randomly appears the next week meaning i keep cleaning the same part. Needless to say i gave up as it felt futile. lol
Good video mate.
Two things about the video.
Firstly, What an absolutely glorious winter's day. Secondly, after a bit of Googling I found out we can purchse Citrus Collins here in Western Australia.
My hot take: people are pigs!
Ive done this a couple times around where I walk my dogs and its despicable. People use it to just dump their rubbish, bikes... full bin bags... clothes...
Maybe fly tipping should be crazy fines starting at £1000 and going up from there. Anyone filming fly tipping gets 50% of the fine as a reward. And allow the homeless to collect existing trash and be paid for the collection.
In Scotland it starts at a fixed penalty of £500, if it goes to court it can be up to £40000 and/or imprisonment of up to 12 months.
It is $2500 in Canada , well my province , and there are rubbish like crazy on the side of the road when the snow melt .....
In Northampton the fines are high. But council they probably have no staff to find/evidence the dumpers. The town is one big fly tip. You would need a skip to do the same trip not a few bin bags. Except the council only want people to attend the tip by vehicle. People dump anything now. Lots of people don't have cars or want to pay £35 for the council to collect a bulky item. The council also control how many times a year a vehicle can visit the tip. 🙄 Their plan don't work.
Why not educate people rather than fining them.
If children received an education rather than their mums and dads outsourcing to schools and TV the world would be a better place. Personal responsibility, honour and morals is whats needed. Fining people is communist and feminine,
Maybe school kids should go out at weekends to film fly tippers then share their videos on a nationwide TV show and shop the offenders "Saturday Shop Swap".
I have a job with a local council and will take it upon myself to litter pick, although it is not in my job description but I always like to go the extra mile. One thing for certain is I have learned just how filthy and disgusting this vile little country is. It is something resembling the 3rd world. It amazes me how quickly I can easily fill a 70 litre refuse sack.
All I can say is well done for your work and I'm sure many people will respect you for it. My parents ingrained in me from a young age to hold on to my litter until I get home. It annoys me when I see people just throw their litter on to the ground.
In 1990 a campaign called Clean Up Australia Day began, where volunteers across Australia worked together to clean rivers, oceans, parks, roadsides etc. It has grown into a massive movement and in the process has educated people about littering. Tourists comment about how clean Australia is now. There is very little litter to be seen along roadsides. We still have fly dumping unfortunately, but it's not so common.
Great idea, we should share that one and get at least a little respect back to our country.
Haha you’ve got “he’s finally lost it” vibes in this one. Love it.
Well done you. Would help you if I lived nearby. State of litter in UK is appalling & I struggle to understand why. Always picking up in my own area, but the problem won't go away. Best wishes. Al. I'm
My nemesis was Fosters cans. The bloke lives up our road would take approximately 1 mile to the junction to drink his can on the way to work in the morning then throw them out before going onto the main road. This is in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. The fines for fly tipping ( that are given )just not big enough. Keep up the good work.
Great stuff as ever! Your positivity is inspiring 😁
Happy New Year to you and all the followers. Thanks for your videos and may we have our Wandering Turnip all this 2025 again. 😊
An excellent vlog , great subject matter and humour .Yes bin bags are too paltry , yes wheelbarrows are unstable ,and yes ,morons guzzle toxic substances from toxic supermarkets and accept no responsibility for the disposal of their waste however toxic or dangerous it may be . White goods in the woods is a feature of British life .
The latest trend in my village of North Yorkshire ,is to fill one's garden with waste . Yer milleniums seem to be lacking the required understanding of the purpose of dustbins and dog waste bags , the responsibilities associated with the management of a dustbin , and dog waste bag , and their role in life to keep the shit down and respect one's neighbours and community .
Councils wouldn't pay you to keep bending over to pick rubbish from the ground. Health and safety, plus you could sue them for a back injury. One of those "helping hand" tools is issued for collecting small items. Good work Turnip.
If you’re fit and slim, picking small things up will not injure a person. On the contrary, you’ll become more supple.
Definitely agree that picking heavy & awkward things while stooping is a recipe for injury, potentially disaster.
@@GT380man Yep, the heavy stuff or any liquids are dangerous. Councils would not take the chance that someone might claim to have pulled a muscle, even if they hadn't, for which they demand compensation for not having been issued with the correct equipment. Tools issued also prevent injury from sharp objects and discarded needles, regardless of a person's shape and fitness.🙂
Same story here in Ireland. But some good news at least... There's a new deposit and return scheme introduced last year which should stop all littering of bottles and cans as people will be throwing away money. Seems to be working out well so far.
In Socialist France the successive governments consistently refuse to introduce such a scheme because as they say " it would be disrespectful to the poorest "😂
We introduced these reverse-vending machines here in Malta and they've been a massive overnight success. You see people rummaging through bins looking for cans and bottles, which is kinda sad on one hand but excellent on the other. I'd have preferred it if people separated their waste because they care about the environment, but dangling a couple of cents in front of them will get them to do it, then I'll take it.
They have the same thing in some Eastern European countries. They pay people to recycle their plastic and glass bottles. I doubt our government here in the UK will ever set up such a scheme though. Anything to keep the poor from earning a bit of extra money.
I have that in oregon (10 cents a can/bottle) you see homeless people with carts full of them. Still see a lot on the floor though
We have got a massive return system here in Germany (since 2003) and it works just fine. Throwing away your garbage costs you from 8ct for a glass beer bottle upt to 25ct for a coke tin can.
Where I am from, the council has completely given up on paying people to pick up trash around the city. They don't give a toss, sadly.
They do give a toss, they just don’t have any money to collect waste other than major flytipping and certainly not for litter education.
@@ianhalsall-fox Braintree council (Essex) spent over £100k on a memorial garden in the cemetery, yet I have not once seen a council litter picker on the streets. We pay thousands in council tax and they spend it on creepy expensive paddington bear statues. They have plenty of money, they just like to give it to their mates.
@@beckyb76563100k would only pay for like 4 pickers for just one year, not going to change the world. If you don't like the decisions the council makes, talk to your local councillor and make sure you're voting! Too many people complaining while doing fck all about it
Same where I live and probably in most places in the UK now. I did a litter pick myself a while ago and found loads of plastic shavings from a demolition site strewn across a footpath next to a river. I went back down with a brush and dustpan and swept up as much of them as I could, but a ton of them had probably already ended up in the river. Not only do the councils not give a toss anymore, people in general don't.
Clearing rubbish..there's no training for this kind of work.. you just pick it up as you go along.. 🤭
Seriously, I can't understand people who litter.. makes me fume!
I TIP my hat to our Wandering Turnip.. 🎩👏👍
If you need help with that fridge I can nip along, I'm just up the road in Sowerby Bridge.
About the time you first mentioned coming back with your car to pick up the bags, I started to hope that you have a very large vehicle. Thank you for your work, and for shining a light on this problem.
Yes, he needs a flat back truck. Hopefully, rental rather than purchase as with regular collections Turnip should start discovering less and less rubbish. The discarded fridges, though.. The big things are a serious hassle to collect.
I've not encountered any fridges, yet. Not for years, anyway (used to see things dumped in tributaries when I was exercising my 'right to roam'). The biggest, most awkward and cumbersome things I've found, were bits of a crashed car but those things can be dragged.
Thankyou so much for doing this! It’s horrific isn’t it. Every year I litterpick the 100 metres of main road by my parents house and I fill a bin bag. We also litter pick the rivers near us when we can. Thanks again.
Not watched the whole video yet, but good on you for doing this much clearing up of the countryside and highlighting this issue.
Litterers and fly tippers are the lowest of the low. It's depressing how much rubbish is by the sides of our roads. I go on the M1 between Hudds and Sheff regularly and it's awful how much rubbish is by the side of the roads. Something should be done about it by the government/ local councils, but won't hold my breath on that...
❤ big love from Manchester and thankfully, restoring my faith in the human/vegetable kind 🙏🃏❤️
Big respect to the barrow too 😂
"What you doing?"
"Watching a guy pick up rubbish for 20 minutes" 😂
You've got a very engaging style.
You asked who these empty cans of gin and tonic belong to? Well, not many people know this but when the Queen Mother was alive and living at Clarence House, every now and then she liked to let her hair down and have a bit of fun.
Queen Mum had a very discreet chauffeur with whom she would conspire and when they thought they could get away unnoticed, she liked to go for drives up north.
By the time they arrived in Yorkshire, she would be half cut and had a lot of fun tossing them out the window. It was a game they played, how many could she land in the same bush.
As they did not want to litter, the chauffeur was supposed to go back when he got the chance and retrieve them all. I guess he missed a few! 😃
The mirror. A perfect touch! Great stuff, as always!
It's usually the same person throwing their can every day while traveling a regular route, that's why you see recurring obscure stuff like mohito or whatever it's called
Proud of you man, well done, it sickens me to see the roadsides everywhere stuff with trash
Same thing here in France, particularly the main roads close to cities.
Credit to you for taking the time to actually do this. It's usually volunteers because council's undoubtedly can't afford to do this because it's low priority. Fire extinguisher was probably dumped because they're not accepted at the tip, they're not at mine. Probably hasn't been done in months/years so not really surprised at how much rubbish there is.
Hm..
So now You know how National Express Coach looks like inside just after Run from Bristol to London Victoria. Just before another departure driver should have a meal break, but break is shared with some cleaning. Yeah, people leave a lot of things, sometimes, even a sandwich between a "cup holder and back of the seat" (I mean, sometimes with ketchup)..
Greetings from exNX driver.. 😉👍🌍
Theres a place near me, hardly any lighting no cameras. New lots of fly tipping appears near daily. Stupid thing is, thats its only 5 mins to the tip and the stuff that gets dumped wont need to be paid for
good man...happy new year Turnip and all Wanderees ...Peace ☘☘
Barrow cam was sound no wobble from what I seen.
Honestly one of my biggest annoyances is seeing people litter, irritates me to no end
Never mind the country side , Britain is a bloody mess !
I watch ' Chilli ' . He is a serial litter picker down in that London . I admire anyone who will stop and pick litter up. If you want to do more litter picking , ask your local council for advice. They should give you official bin bags and you will probably have to report where you have left the full bags.
Good on you mate. Every little helps.
I've been regularly hiking the same mountain in the Lake District to keep fit. After Covid I noticed an increase in new people to the hills, some of them also seem to drop their litter more often! I try and pick bottles etc. and carry them down.
I've always done 'litter patrol' when out in the Lakes/Dales/Scotland. It used to be small amounts. Now I sometimes struggle to get it all, bulk mainly not weight.
Fantastic effort clearing up the countryside. Excellent vid, i feel this needs to be an ongoing series where theres a monthly vid of you doing this sort of stuff.
It'll have to be an ongoing series, now! Turnip - you may want to pace these litter picking videos carefully. Choose a schedule based upon what you're going to be able to do for the rest of your life. Hopefully, at the start, you'll notice you've put a dent in the problem and you won't need to do it so frequently. It'll turn into another sustained grind of 'good versus evil'. Yes, litter louts, I just called you 'evil'.
Love your channel from Midwest, USA!
I know it's a serious subject and where I live, I don't think you would even move a metre without filling the barrow, but that was the funniest episode ever !
Why our government doesn't install bottle, cans, and plastic bottles 'banks' outside and in supermarkets, I don't know.. I have lived in a Scandinavian country and when you get vouchers to redeem for food, you rarely see any rubbish. The poorer folk even go to the public bins in parks and retrieve cans : Every little helps when you are desperate for extra food.
Yes Betty ,in England ,we vote for people who are incapable of organising our recycling.
@@Arty53 Difficult to know which party are capable of doing anything about the important things. Common sense is missing from most politions
In Wyre Forest (Stourport, Bewdley, Kidderminster) our local voluntary rubbish attendants are called 'The Pick Up Artists' 😂
I live on a sea of plastic. It's awful here. When I went to Taiwan, I didn't see one bit of litter despite not being any bins around.
So well done. Great job. So worthwhile
BRAVO !!!I used to do that ,leave with gloves and garbage bags and pick every rubbish from the side of the road ....or on trails after going for a walk the first time and seeing all the rubbish ...I can't anymore but if you read that , and you notice a place that needs it , don't wait for other people or the "city" to do it , you will feel better afterward.
Great video mr Turnip… I do a bit of litter picking near my home and what bug’s me the worst is the people who just walk pass all the litter…🤬🤬
Excellent job mate. I go out doing this in my area. Its both satisfying making a difference and disheartening, as its a never ending battle. But ultimately well worth it.
Oregon has an excellent recycling place an actually gives you cash for bottles and cans so you don't see anything along the road.
Whew - you must not live in town like Portland! So much trash dumped. I don't remember so much trash as a kid but when we ignore people and allow humans to become trash and homeless no wonder so many don't care. What a statement on what we've become!
I used to work in a shop on a retail park.
On slower day's or if i was working at the front of the shop I'd look outside to see what was going on. You'd see cars park up opposite the shops doors, car doors open and see people emptying rubbish from their cars on to the floor or throwing it into the bushes. It drove me mad, especially when the bin was next to the car.
The other thing is children in the car would see them doing this, which is just teaching the next generation to do it.
Late spring to early autumn when the shops are all closing up and the sun is still up, you'd see how bad the car park was. A sea of litter with the wind blowing it around like tumbleweed. The retail park employed someone to clean this daily, but they'd be there at 7 in the morning for an hour when the majority of it has all blown away.
As for the gin cans in the bush, your theroy on giw they have got there is probably correct. Alternatively it could be a couple of people in the way home from work having a drink and a chat then throwing their waste.
Unfortunately there for every 8 persons discarding their waste, it appears only 1 is picking them up.
in Grangetown, Cardiff, we have weekend litterpicks with pink bags. we try to seperate the recyclables with the general - and we can leave them near the council bins and they are picked up - people are ridiculously messy - and it's ALL ages - makes me mad!
well done to you for this noble effort.
the litter picks are really sociable and it's a good way to 'walk' the neighbourhood for locals, councillors etc - positives from the negatives.
Nothing more disheartening than doing a litter pick and going back to the spot to find they did it again.
We can literally time it, fast food packaging same spot every time…
What a hero you are, for doing that, most people just don't seem to give a shit, yeah shame on them. Fabulous job, look forward to part two, thanks for
caring, wish more people did.😃🙁😕💜🙂
Enjoy, people of uk.. it costs millions every day to have such wonderful imported diverse culture as this…
Lesson of the day, don't litter or you'll get a bloke with a barrow on the doorstep! Love the video
Mini series? Nah, this should be a mega series :)
I’m sorry you have to deal with the same horrible behavioral issues that are rampant in the USA. What nudges me closest to homicidal ideation are those pet owners who dutifully bag their dog’s droppings while others may be looking only to toss the loaded bag as soon as they feel comfortably out of sight. Deplorable! They’ve already done the hard part ffs why not wait until they find a bin? And on the topic…
Those large jugs you were emptying on the side of the road? Almost invariably filled with urine, courtesy of long haul truckers and even day trippers who think their time is too valuable to pull over at a restroom. Speaking as a longtime litter gitter, you may want to add rubber gloves to your arsenal.
If you head a bit further down to Lobb Mill before Eastwood, you’ll spot empty bottle after bottle of small, home brand vodka. They disappeared a while ago but now they’re coming back. Someone parks up at the bottom of East Lee lane, downs the bottle and then chucks them away. There must be about 100 scattered around.