Isn't it great?
Is it, as has been suggested (here), that our 18 Town Councillors have been working their socks off?
Is this mainly because we've been organised into teams to clean up litter by others (them)?
Is it because people have been motivated to clean up litter because of a campaign run by others?
Is it because people have been motivated not to discard litter by a campaign run by others?
Is it because a lot of people go round picking up litter anyway?
Is it because some brave people tell people off if they see people discarding litter deliberately or without thinking?
Is there another reason/s?
Your comments are welcomed.
If you want to be involved in this discussion perhaps you'd start now?
1 comment:
My answer is of course - none of the above.
It's part of Ulverston's culture not to throw litter on our streets. Many parents in fact teach their kids to not only put their own litter in the bins but even to pick up any unsightly rubbish and put that in too.
I am coming to realise that councillors are not the kind of people who understand that communities have a culture that they, the councillors, find difficult to get their head round. They sadly believe that they can influence communities by 'Top Down' initiatives : start a campaign, pass a Byelaw, put up some signs. Most of the electorate regard them as an irrelevance and carry on regardless. Picking up general litter and rubbish themselves (in the normal course of their lives - without yellow jackets and litterpickers) would indeed strike a strong chord with the rest of us that already do - as a matter of course.
This way of thinking applies to dog fouling too.
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