Malicous pollution by a Yachsman.

[DownWest]

The promoters do employ a clean-up crew.

Don't they give free tickets to anybody who will stay for the tidy up.
My point being, why do people leave trash in the first place?

 

[Blueboatman]

Lit fag ends chucked out of cars frustrated in traffic queues used to be far less unacceptable.

Nowadays a woke cyclist will just pick it up and flick it back into the car . And peddle off?

Quite funny to watch , the first time.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Don't they give free tickets to anybody who will stay for the tidy up.
My point being, why do people leave trash in the first place?

They pay you to do it, I've done Glastonbury twice, it's amazing the 'shit' you find.

 

[Blueboatman]

They pay you to do it, I've done Glastonbury twice, it's amazing the 'shit' you find.

We used to do Sidmouth after the folk festival week.
The farmers concern was ring pulls and bottle caps swallowed by his cows

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Lit fag ends chucked out of cars frustrated in traffic queues used to be far less unacceptable.

Nowadays a woke cyclist will just pick it up and flick it back into the car . And peddle off?

Quite funny to watch , the first time.

I’ve had many lit fags dropped onto my petrol talk on my motorbike. Which makes me more inclined to shove it up their nose than politely drop it in their lap.

 

[Blueboatman]

I’ve had many lit fags dropped onto my petrol talk on my motorbike. Which makes me more inclined to shove it up their nose than politely drop it in their lap.

Well, exactly
Those wing mirrors are awful expensive

 

[Bouba]

The littering here in the South of France is also heartbreaking....my wife tried to rank them as to who is worse, the fishermen on the shore, hippies in vans, young people and the perennial smokers....to me, the saddest are the young litterlouts, they are full of lectures about it being everyone else’s fault but they don’t let disposing of their disposables interfere with their hedonistic ways....mind you, every now and again my heart soars when I see a young person picking up plastic off the beach

 

[Clancy Moped]

More and more beaches here are becoming non-smoking, which I'm in favour of.

 

[Blueboatman]

When I were a lad you could buy a whole single peach.

Not a shrink wrapped, polystyrene tray of peach pieces with a plastic fork and a serviette and a pretty carrier bag
Meh
..
Mind. We used to see how far we could throw the peach stone ?

 

[Bouba]

More and more beaches here are becoming non-smoking, which I'm in favour of.

I remember decades ago being on Bondi Beach where the sand was a mixture of silica and cigarette butts in equal measure

 

[ylop]

You are missing the point, possibly deliberately. We, as sailors, are indeed a community, and the sadness expressed by the OP shows that we are capable of making our feelings about the occasional miscreant clear. Sailing has the capacity to cause environmental harm, but over the years I have seen great progress in trying to counter this, such as control on A/F run-off, and the general abandonment of discarding waste in the seas. Although there is still much to be done, the many thousands who sail create nothing like the mayhem that we see reported from these so-called festivals and I see nothing of the disconnect between pretension and reality among the great majority of sailors that I see around, and the point about festival-goers' false pretensions seems well made, when Saint Greta is worshipped by the creators of rubbish dumps.

Have you been to a festival? In my experience, the typical festival goer is not the eco-warrior hippie type you are imagining - I think you may be stuck in the 1960s.

 

[Biggles Wader]

It's always someone else, particularly groups of people we like to disapprove of, who create all these problems. Amazing that, innit?

 

[Wansworth]

Possibly issue ing large plastic bags towards the end of the festival people would have somewhere to put their rubbish and if they felt community minded any rubbish

 

[Bouba]

It's always someone else, particularly groups of people we like to disapprove of, who create all these problems. Amazing that, innit?

If I don’t like someone...odds are they are up to no good

 

[chrishscorp]

I believe there are a couple of charities that get first pick of the tents left behind at the bigger festivals, so they are not all landfilled. I managed to give 12 builders dumpy bags to one local event and they were used at rubbish drop off points in the camp for the recycling so many do make an effort, but we digress from the OPs original post.

PS. Those of you who object and disagree with the way our right to anchor is to be taken away at Studland and indeed other areas could be classed as WOKE so be careful who you try to insult with that term !!

 

[salad]

Don't they give free tickets to anybody who will stay for the tidy up.
My point being, why do people leave trash in the first place?

Because they are feckless and lazy!

 

[salad]

PS. Those of you who object and disagree with the way our right to anchor is to be taken away at Studland and indeed other areas could be classed as WOKE so be careful who you try to insult with that term !!

I read about that recently. Reducing access to large swathes of the countryside and forbidding lawful activities is usually the preserve of those organisations who are supposed to work for everyone, in the national interest yet do anything but.

 

[steadyeddy]

I fell sad that there is so much rubish thown just left behind but if you say any thing as i have is the past i have been sworn at,now at the age of over 80 i realy cannot defend my self

 

[xyachtdave]

I’ve just had the opposite. Motoring into the Hamble a sailing school yacht came past and someone shouted out something like ‘do you think it’s OK to chuck your rubbish in the sea’. As I was baffled he then explained that he’d just watched me ditch a large amount of gash overboard. I hadn’t, I didn’t have any gash aboard and still have no idea what he saw, or thinks he saw. He could however be naming my boat and shaming me on social media!

That's not good.

 

[Wansworth]

Don't they give free tickets to anybody who will stay for the tidy up.
My point being, why do people leave trash in the first place?

When I were a lad you could buy a whole single peach.

Not a shrink wrapped, polystyrene tray of peach pieces with a plastic fork and a serviette and a pretty carrier bag
Meh
..
Mind. We used to see how far we could throw the peach stone ?

That’s called added value so you can charge more?