Discarding bottles in the river.

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Had to look twice coz I couldn't quite believe what I just saw. A middle aged guy with his wife and dog in their tender heading toward the bridge, take a last swig from his beer bottle then lower the bottle into the water and just let go. A quick glance to see if it had cleared his props then on his merry way. Why do that?! Grrrr.
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I went sailing with a guy once who thought it was ok to chuck beer bottles into the sea on the basis that eventually the glass would turn back into sand...
 
lisilou said:
Had to look twice coz I couldn't quite believe what I just saw. A middle aged guy with his wife and dog in their tender heading toward the bridge, take a last swig from his beer bottle then lower the bottle into the water and just let go. A quick glance to see if it had cleared his props then on his merry way. Why do that?! Grrrr.
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What is it with people not knowing how to get rid of litter, I had some clown on the M3 yesterday throw a cigarette out of car window that landed on my windscreen.
 
aquapower said:
What is it with people not knowing how to get rid of litter, I had some clown on the M3 yesterday throw a cigarette out of car window that landed on my windscreen.
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heading into London on my 2 wheeled beemer, weaving as one does, a smokie bloke held his hand out of the window, fag in hand. He dropped the fag alright when I hit him on the knuckles.

Fag smokers invariably think fag butts aren't litter. Disgusting. But off topic......
 
Elessar said:
heading into London on my 2 wheeled beemer, weaving as one does, a smokie bloke held his hand out of the window, fag in hand. He dropped the fag alright when I hit him on the knuckles.

Fag smokers invariably think fag butts aren't litter. Disgusting. But off topic......
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Why?
 
mlines said:
At Mercury yesterday a very large rib launched, tied up to the pontoon and proceeded to pump its toilet into the river.
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Well that's a little more discrete than many of the boaters we saw during our recent visit to France who seem to cut out the middle man and pee and **** over the side...it's enough to put you off your croissants :)

Re knocking a cigarette from someones hand, surely that makes you the litterbug?
 
gave a chap a lift once from a hotel I was overnighting in to an auction which we were both attending. The hotel was close to a MacDonald's and he had got his breakfast from their and preceded to eat on route to the auction, we needed to go up 2 junctions of a motorway and to my astonishment while I was driving along he put his window down and in a second before I realised what he was about to do he ejected all the rubbish from his MacDonald's meal out the car... paper bag, empty drink cup, empty burger box, etc etc, the whole lot.. I could not believe my eyes. I decided I couldn't stop on the motorway and get him to pick it up, so instead I pulled off at the next junction and ejected him from my car on the slip road. He never did make it to the auction..
 
I'm with you on the fags/cars when on the bike, after being hit by a flying fag butt once I did return a dropped fag butt to the driver by flicking it inside his car. On boats I was brought up with the tins and glass OK at sea mentality but seeing as the ammount of boats and hence rubbish has increased I don't think it's OK any more. Even on a transat we kept all metal/glass and only put waste food over the side. I don't ever want to be diving finding bottles and tins so better off we teach new comers that it should all stay in the boat.
 
Neil_Y said:
I'm with you on the fags/cars when on the bike, after being hit by a flying fag butt once I did return a dropped fag butt to the driver by flicking it inside his car. On boats I was brought up with the tins and glass OK at sea mentality but seeing as the ammount of boats and hence rubbish has increased I don't think it's OK any more. Even on a transat we kept all metal/glass and only put waste food over the side. I don't ever want to be diving finding bottles and tins so better off we teach new comers that it should all stay in the boat.
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My thoughts too. It might seem OK and probably was but a can will disolve if left in a park but we don't want to find it there in the meantime.
 
Whilst I agree that there's probably far worse things than glass, it's the whole lazy attitude to rubbish that really bugs me - IMHO it doesn't matter if it's natural or biodegradable, it should be taken home and binned/recycled. Whilst in many cases the bottle will sink and get lost in the mud etc for a few thousand years, there's also a good chance it won't and instead will end up smashed on a beach somewhere. Living by the seaside, we often encounter broken glass - most probably (hopefully?) from beach goers rather than boaters but either way inconsiderate and unnecessary. :(
 
rbcoomer said:
Whilst I agree that there's probably far worse things than glass, it's the whole lazy attitude to rubbish that really bugs me - IMHO it doesn't matter if it's natural or biodegradable, it should be taken home and binned/recycled. Whilst in many cases the bottle will sink and get lost in the mud etc for a few thousand years, there's also a good chance it won't and instead will end up smashed on a beach somewhere. Living by the seaside, we often encounter broken glass - most probably (hopefully?) from beach goers rather than boaters but either way inconsiderate and unnecessary. :(
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What do the Alderney folk do with their refuse :rolleyes:
 
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