Litter reduction
Published 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Making News.Hellooooo dear nookers 
How is you? Are you at home right now? Cosy & quiet over there? Are you relaxed with a nice cuppa soup or tea? Alleluia! Open your doors and let me in Nookers. Lets have a little chit-chat ay? You see, this is what I like about this sight; it allows frightened, shy little fellows like me to come out of my shell - just a little mind you! Just a little outta my shell c’moooon open up. let me in, I’m a nice guy.
How is you? Are you at home right now? Cosy & quiet over there? Are you relaxed with a nice cuppa soup or tea? Alleluia! Open your doors and let me in Nookers. Lets have a little chit-chat ay? You see, this is what I like about this sight; it allows frightened, shy little fellows like me to come out of my shell - just a little mind you! Just a little outta my shell c’moooon open up. let me in, I’m a nice guy.I want to talk about litter, the litter dats everywhere around us- wait wait! Don’t kick me out of your home yet; ’tis cold out there. I keep hearing about this climate change and da litter dats killin’ the birds and the froggies and things … they say it ends up all the way in Antarctica 
I can’t seem to run away from it, Nookers.
I can’t seem to run away from it, Nookers.Fines, I’m told, don’t seem to work. I wonder… but then again, so what if they don’t work? It’s a darn good revenue exercise for the council ay? But then what about the repercussions? The small minded litter bugs may feel hard done by and may decide to take out their revenge on the environment.
If you’re still reading, I thank you. Can ya top up my cup please?
REFUNDS! Perhaps that’s the solutions my friends; refunds. Like the charge on shopping trolleys, perhaps put an extra $1 on the chip bags and cigarette butts and plastic drink bottles…etc - ‘FOOL!’ you might say, ‘KICK HIM OUT!’ Ahhhhhh, but wait… one day things might get so desperate that it might not be such a silly idea after-all.
Most people will collect their cigarette butts until there’s enough to get a good refund. They will hang on to their empty, plastic, drink bottles and children that throw ‘em away will get a clip across the ear from their pauper parents. Think about all the poor people who would gladly walk the streets picking up litter, smoking what’s left and then collecting the cigarette butts before they end up in the water ways and pollute our creeks and rivers.
Okay we don’t have to put a refund on everything; I saw an add on TV recently about bags being made out of starch , I’m sure you too have seen it - what a brilliant idea! Who pray tell was the bright spark who thought of that idea?
Too pedantic you think? I know a few people who once thought it was pedantic to worry a bout a dripping tap or turning the heating down a notch or two or capturing the water from the shower before it gets warm…etc. Pedantic until they saw the bigger picture.
That’s it my friends. That’s all I have to say on the matter. I’m a man of few words:-) Now it’s your turn. Do what you will with me… say what’s on your mind. I shall not get offended - OK I might so I’ll put a bit of wood between my teeth and take it on the chin. Be gentle
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LOL. Well written. I’m off to put my vegie peelings in my worm farm.
Here’s another cup top up Mr Blowfly. Could not agree with you more, lets face it, even blow flies have their part in the environment, using their young in maggot form, (no, not Footy umpires!) to clean up all the dead meat rubbish some humans leave lying around, like half eaten big macs thrown out the car window!
Two companies I know of are doing their bit, The RACV is sending out its Royalauto magazine in a biodegradable plastic wrapper, and Australian Geographic use re-cyclable plastic. Maybe we should tell that part time greenie Peter Garret to legislate that ALL mail wrapping should be recyclable or biodegradable. As for fag butts, kick them where it hurts, a $250 is not enough, make it a $1,000 for a first offence then double each subsequent offence. Or preferably, damn the economics, completely ban the use of tobacco. The areas they use for growing it are wasting water that should be going towards food!
And look at those meat trays they use in the Supermarkets, not recyclable, but at least the company that makes them is working with RMIT to try to make food safe packaging so I suppose they should get some credit for trying to do the right thing.
Plenty more can be done, keep up the annoying buzz of your wings and annoy the @$%# out of people until they do the right thing.
I admit I even recycle my aviaries bird seed to the wild ones. Apples left discarded by my canaries are eaten through to the skin by the doves….I do recycle food scraps into the compost but god it is hard work putting it around the garden…I feel guilty about tipping any water down the plug hole but then comfort myself with the thought, drains need to be washed down too!
The throw away mentality of many food shops does leave litter thrown over our front fence on a regular basis and one of the reasons I can’t support longer hours for McDonalds. Why would anyone need a big mac at 1 am in the morning? No wonder we have an obese society!. One assumes they would have eaten earlier as well.
I am old enough to remember collecting beer bottles with my brother for a one penny refund value and the soft drink bottles at fivepence. It gave us something to do and certainly gave us children extensive exercise….Our parents didn’t actually encourage us but as “pocket money” unearned was never a consideration, they tolerated the smell of stale beer bottles stacked up by the back door. If we were lucky, they even contributed some of their own and we didn’t have to go chasing theirs!
Mr Blow Fly, you have a role in society which is well understood if not always actually appreciated. If you manage to escape my swat within the house, you’re lucky!
Keep up your awareness campaign please as many people are still swatting for the exam, trying the understand the point of the assignment.