[Closed] 23 tonnes of rubbish left on Brighton beach last weekend

Ditto. Depressing.

"The beaches looked like landfill sites. They [the beach goers] wouldn't do this to their own streets and their own back gardens."

That probably not true.

I was there on Saturday and tbh honest I didn't think the beach was that crowded, certainly not as much as it appears to be in the link 😕

what did you drop ernie?

Another Brighton resident here but I look at it in a more positive way, thousands more tons of rubbish gets up of it's fat useless arse at the end of the day and heads back to London. 🙂

Quick edit: obviously this does not include ernie above,I have no idea where he lives. 🙂

I didn't drop anything Al, didn't even go on the beach - just cycled along the top 🙂

Similar thing here in That London's City of Westminster. Some events require an insane clear up.

Oddly, though, the Olympic road events appear to have been very, very clean, in litter terms, all things considered.

They [the beach goers] wouldn't do this to their own streets and their own back gardens.

How does he know? (Ollie Sykes), plenty of people seem to think it's OK to chuck their shit where ever they deem appropriate. It seems to me he is making the assumption that the beach goers only drop litter on a day out. Sad thing is they prob just don't care where they drop it...as soon as it leaves their hand it is no longer their responsibility. Gives people jobs etc bla bla!

Boo. I was hoping for at least "my trousers"..."a few clangers"... 😀

Am thinking of a day trip to Brighton when next in the smoke (end Sept)...any must-do tips from the locals?

But as a local resident i have to pay for its clean-up. I guess part of the cost of living somewhere popular

I suspect the benefit to the local economy of tourism far exceeds the cost of clearing up after them.

I didn't see the beach myself so no idea if it did look like landfill or not. Here's an "after" [url= http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9884359.Mayhem_on_Brighton_beach_as_litterbugs_dump_23_tonnes_of_rubbish/?ref=mmsp ]photo[/url]

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I suspect the benefit to the local economy of tourism far exceeds the cost of clearing up after them.

Possibly true...but if the people who find it acceptable to drop litter had a sudden burst of social responsibility and used a bin or took their rubbish home the benefit to the local economy would be increased.

I suspect the benefit to the local economy of tourism far exceeds the cost of clearing up after them.

Absolutely correct but doesn't make it right to drop litter. I guess its a "cost of doing business" which the council will probably put onto local businesses thru higher rates etc.

any must-do tips from the locals?

Take your bloody litter home with you!

Boo. I was hoping for at least "my trousers"..."a few clangers"...

mdb - Member

I didn't see the beach myself so no idea if it did look like landfill or not.

Well this was the beach at about midday on Saturday :

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Really not that busy eh ?

Same happens in Cambridge every weekend in the main Parks. Massive influx of young European students on 3 months language courses, who just drop their empty food / drink containers on the grass. There's also a few messy locals, but they are in the minority in this case.

Really not that busy eh ?

Yep not very busy.

im not sure there is that much cost involved in clearing party waste up.... i went on a visit to a mrf site recently and the guy who managed it told me it ran at a 6 figure profit. he was selling mixed plastic for £200 per tonne. even paper is getting close to £100 per tonne a scrap value. alu cans? god knows, probably £1500 per tonne.
how much does a litter picker cost? community service lot aren't they?

We got a ton or so from Loch Tay a couple of weeks back, 6 canoes piled with rubbish over a couple of days:
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It is unexplainable that people want to come and camp/fish/stay in such a lovely place, but happily dump everything they have (including complete tents and kit that you buy too cheap in Argos etc) when they leave.
Loch Lomond:
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Lubnaig:
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In season, between us and another local outdoor centres and lochshore locals, we clean up an industrial bin or so a week from 'wild camp' locations.

i would like to point out after my previous post that i in no way condone litter, in fact i abhor it, and regularly pick up other peoples and have a go at people who drop it. i was merely pointing out that waste pays for its own collection these days.

seavers...i was responding to Ernie.

i was merely pointing out that waste pays for its own collection these days.

very much depends on the costs of building and running MRF's MBT-AD plants IVC's etc.. a lot of processes that are supposed to be fairly green such as biogas generation from MBT/AD and In Vessel Composting are running poorly and certainly not as designed. The most cost effective thing is to just sort and bale waste at transfer loading stations, but again if you look at the full process including shipping and transport of the product being sold, it's certainly no where as rosey and profitable as made out.

Its a shitty shingle beach. Why do people go there? The town isn't much better. (it is better than Hastings though!)

We get litter on Bournemouth/Poole beaches too, but not in the same quantities as Brighton.

Not sure why, maybe people feel more guilty about leaving rubbish on a proper sandy beach. Alternatively, maybe it's because we get far fewer filthy Laaaarndarners.

Him in the middle looks a bit fed up !

Can you get gravy on your chips in Bighton ?

Was at Camunsary beach on Skye recently and was genuinely shocked by the amount of rubbish on the beach there.Not from backpackers,walkers or cyclists but from fishing boats.

You find the damnedest things just dumped in the countryside; or perhaps it just fell out of someone's rucksack...

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I had a slight red mist moment a month or so back , walking along the front and a bloke sitting fishing chucked his pie wrappers on the ground. I picked them up and went back saying "Hello you seem to have indavertantly dropped these". He told me t F off so i shoved them in his mouth ! Probably could have been assault really but he was a bit stunned mullet (boom tish). I cannot abide people chucking litter like that.

Might help if there were ever any rubbish bins ! Local councils and FCS have a policy of not providing bins so much any more, as that means they have to empty them. Not saying that excuses this, but might help alleviate the problem.

Brighton beach tends to be busier at midnight than midday on a summers weekend and that picture was taken near dawn so that's a night's worth of chip wrappers plus a few of the bewildered and left behind drunks we're seeing.

Where I live the local shops won't give plastic bags out on the weekends and during certain events you can't buy any booze in glass bottles, cans and plastic only.

If you live in Brighton and don't like it then do something about it. It's your city after all.

[i]Might help if there were ever any rubbish bins ! Local councils and FCS have a policy of not providing bins so much any more, as that means they have to empty them.[/i]

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-19329653 ]"Brighton and Hove City Council said despite installing 60 extra litter bins the beachfront was left covered with rubbish.

It has also employed 20 extra seasonal staff to cope with the increase in litter."[/url]

Anyway, no bin = no excuse. Keep hold of it until you find one, or take it home.

Dropping litter really REALLY boils my pi$$ 😡

One reason whey I fell out of love with trail centres on my first visit was the dozens of plastic power drink bottles thrown down beside the trail.

Still, I guess trail centres do fulfil a useful function if they keep litter-bugs out of the countryside proper.

The typical British tourist is something to be ashamed of sadly. I was in a picturesque Cotswold village last weekend and a rough looking couple (yeah sue me for stereotyping :p ) with a baby fed the ducks and then unbelievably just dropped the plastic bread bag in the river.

Tip No1:

Stay away from Tourists.

Brighton beach tends to be busier at midnight than midday on a summers weekend

Which suggests that it's more likely to be local residents rather than day trippers, does it not ?

IHN - I read the story, was referring to the Highland locals with their rural clean-ups with my comment about bins. (duhuh)

On Sunday the beach was busy all the way to the Marina in Kemptown and between the piers - you couldn't see the shingle for all the pink/burnt red flesh.

Which suggests that it's more likely to be local residents rather than day trippers, does it not ?

Possibly but people come to stay for a weekend or do a club then stay on the beach until the first train home. Then there's all the students and hen / stag parties.

My comment was with regards to the claim that Brighton beach tends to be [u]busier[/u] at midnight than midday on a summers weekend mdb - if people come down for the weekend why would they go to the beach at nighttime rather than in the daytime ?

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