Cyclist slams “lazy bastards” who use North Wales beauty spot as “rubbish bin”

I'll just drop this in .   https://www.trashfreetrails.org 

Hmmm......

I used to live in Llandudno and the locals were the laziest bastards you've ever met.

Expected everything for nothing and knew every scam in the book. Unfortunately, none of this surprises me in the slightest, the whole peninsula is geared up for cars, you can't even legally ride on the promenade. The Mostyn family who basically own Llandudno are living so far in the past with their addiction to cars and the blight that they create I have very little sympathy for the poor fools who choose to live there.

Beautiful place, spoilt by the backwards twats who live there.

Can we get some positive news reporting to balance the site's glut of depresssing stuff, XR Norwich did a mini Crit Mass if you need a pointer, or more stuff from the InternationElles?

I'd like to see a scheme whereby branded litter (e.g. McDonald's cartons) is charged back to the retailer for clean up charges. Do occasional counts of rubbish collected in different areas and then slap a tax on the offending companies. Hopefully that'll provide an incentive for companies to reduce their packaging or educate their customers.

Or, rather than a tax, how about a mandated deposit/return charge on packaging? If Tescos wants to package apples in plastic wrap, put an extra 10p on the price and anyone returning empty Tesco packaging gets 10p paid to them. That'd encourage kids (or anyone with a lot of time on their hands) to go round and pick up litter for cash which would solve a problem and also hopefully induce an awareness into kids about littering.

About 10 minutes before I took this picture 31 people from 5 families used this area for a picnic lunch. Apart from a few crumbs we left it how we found it.

I totally sympathise with this rant. I love getting out of built up areas to enjoy the beauty of our countryside and I regularly see it being treated as a rubbish dump. What do the people who throw their rubbish on the ground think is going to happen to it? I suppose that question is irrelevant as they almost certainly don't think, but they do choose not to think. I was brought up to never drop litter and so were my children. To me it is something unthinkable. Do we need to have better public education on this matter? I remember the "Don't be a litter-lout" campaign from my childhood, so this clearly isn't a new issue but is has become exacerbated by the modern curse of fast-food. 

Hmm, while this story isn't without merit but it's not really about cycling.

I've read this site for years but I'm rapidly losing interest - there are so many articles that seemed designed purely to inflame and are often only vaguely related to cycling. It seems to be mostly clickbait or recycled press releases now.

I actually think that the overall perspective is fairly negative and there's not much reporting on the beauty and fun of riding a bike - I feel that I'm enjoying cycling less and this kind of narrative is a factor. 

I know close passes, driver behaviour, crap infrastructure and media bias are all real problems, but I don't need to read about every gammon spewing bile on twitter. Or about unrelated issues conflated into cycling. Perhaps offer some solutions to the real issues with cycling in Britain rather than just complaining.

Despite all the bullshit cycling is still amazing, riding a bike is bloody good fun and I'll do it until I can't do it anymore.

For the record I also hate littering.

Ormeggio (Latin derivitive) is the Italian word word for mooring / berth. I don't know the area or its history but I guess it has some Roman past. 

It would be perfectly possible to print the number plate associated with the drive through pickup order onto all the packaging. The owner could then be reunited with their lost items and a fee charged for the service.

This wouldn't work for people who actually go the effort of getting out of their cars to wobble into the fast food establishment to order and collect, but I suspect we are mostly talking about the morbidly lazy when it comes to eating in the car and chucking the wrappers.

Alternatively, if electric car windows were banned we might see less litter dumping given the physical effort involved in using an old fashioned window winder.

Pointless to go on a nature trek/ride/travel when you can't respect nature. It takes just a few seconds extra and some common sense to put the trash in one's bag. 

I'm sure Matthew Paris will be along soon to blame cyclists.  And then to threaten their lives by stringing wire across cycle routes.  And after that to apologise, but only for not understanding that cyclists don't have a sense of humour.

Sadly, since the UK scum who usually go abroad to ruin other countries can't this year.....  they are ruining their own country.

saw a load of paint tins fly tipped on one of my rides so far this weekend

The used nappies, pizza boxes, strong lager cans... that I see on the Cheshire lanes could have been left by cyclists, but I suspect that antisocial motorists are the culprits, probably the same ones that think cyclists should pay road tax and ride in the gutter.

A twat is a twat is a twat

It is an offense to throw anything from a movinge vehicle

These people are unthinking scum- the only way to get through to them is undercover officials and on-the-spot fines, which double if they're not paid 'on-the-spot'. I suspect we dont have the laws for that.

Not a cyclist then (rule 42). Although what has riding a bike got to do with the subject ?