Why do we put up with it?

Every Sunday morning when I am in town I see the mess left behind by the previous nights partying.

Unlike some public figures I don’t really blame the staff of the District Council who are ’supposed’ to clean the streets.  They have a difficult enough job without me making political capital out of them.  Their bosses the Tory Councillors who run Ebley Mill are another matter…

No. You can send millions on Street Cleaning but the real problem lies with the throw away culture of modern Britain.  we drink too much alcohol (yes I used to do that) We buy to much ‘junk’ food, with too much packaging, and then throw half of it away uneaten (along with the packaging) justifying it all on the fact that ‘We were drunk!’

I am not going to say that we have too much in the way of fast food outlets or that Alcohol is too cheap and readily available.  I don’t need to say it because it is self evident…

But that aside we need to take more responsibility for our environment and the relationship we have with it and with each other.  We can’t keep throwing our lives away into the gutter. 

And it would be nice to have the streets a little cleaner on Sunday mornings…