We were always taught to take our litter home with us.  It's absolutely gross the way some people just get up and leave all their waste surrounding where they were sitting.  It reflects badly on them, their parents and the way they have been brought up and is a cost and danger to them and their environment. If you can carry your picnic to a park - you can clear it away properly with you. Make sure everyone takes some responsibility! I don't just mean shove it all into a huge black plastic bag which is then half full of air and will leak when you carry it and too quickly fill any litterbin or skip!  Is it park you want to visit or a smelly rubbish tip? Treat the grass or picnic table as if it was your own home.  Separate your easy to recyclabes for recycling snd take them home.  Use a bit of sense - it doesn't take much - and flatten pizza boxes and other easy to flatten card - don't just post them into a bin blocking the way for anyone else to use it properly! It's a shame that Govt once again has delayed a deposit return system on much packaging as it may be the only way thst you can instill the cost and value of it.  It works well in other countries.  Take your recyclables home if there is no recycling bin.  We should all take up the challenge of creating and having waste-free picnics and celebrations!  Plan wisely and there'll be less mess and clearing up! You'll also find the area you want to use in a much more enjoyable state. Birds and animals will spread what you leave all over the place - they are very resourceful - and why should everybody be paying unnecessarily for cleaning up after you?

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 09:14:00	Tim Mackinnon
Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 11:19:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 12:57:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 13:21:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 14:20:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 14:40:00	Sam Hearn

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