Deep Clean / Clean Sweep in the Gardens

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Permalink Reply by MICHAEL on February 18, 2010 at 22:37

Hi All

A deep & clean sweep would be most welcome! However, we also need public education and a tougher stand on littering in Haringey.

There is literally a plague of cigarette ends all over Haringey's pavements, bus stops, restaurant and shop fronts. Most smokers think they have a right to casually toss their fag ends and wrappers on our pavements. Sorry about the rant!!

How about some more practical and user friendly ideas to deal with this anti social problem?

Michael

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Permalink Reply by Liz on February 18, 2010 at 23:55

Here is a subject that has got (and still gets) me quite angry particularly as some smokers seem to think that no matter what you put out for them, the natural place for their fag end is the pavement. Cigarette litter is the most common form of litter.

I had my own big rant about it here and in the spirit of the good community volunteer I also proposed some solutions here

Perhaps if cigarette ends miraculously grew overnight to this size below, people might see it differently:

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Permalink Reply by John D on February 20, 2010 at 11:07

But they don't. Perhaps if discarded mattresses shrank to the size of cigarette packets we wouldn't find them so offensive. At least cigarette ends dissolve in a shower of rain :-)

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Permalink Reply by Liz on February 20, 2010 at 11:42

It's precisely the attitude that they are small and somehow disappear that contributes to the problem. If only it were true, John, that cigarette ends dissolve in the rain. They're not environmentally friendly. It's a foul habit to throw them anywhere and inexcusable.

Have a good look around in all the little 'ashtrays' in the manhole covers and street furniture on GL one day and you will see them all in there, soggy but still there and a source of great interest to a walking 2 yr old.

No excuses for throwing fag butts down, put them in the bin or carry a way of disposing of them yourself.

My grandad, a smoker till the day he died (indeed it was what killed him at 71), had the habit of knocking the end off and putting the butt in his pocket. I never saw him throw his butt end down.

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Permalink Reply by frank demster on February 20, 2010 at 10:58

Back Lines are the parts of the pavement furthest from the road - ie by garden wall etc. Channels used to be gutters but have been relaunched to express their media potential. We are all iin the gutter but some of us are looking at the channels.

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Permalink Reply by MICHAEL on February 24, 2010 at 22:38

Thanks for the links & good to read comments from similarly affected people. Did mention the problem to Councillor Canver and a couple of other Councillors when they knocked on my door a couple of months ago. No noticeable improvements as yet, but will continue to raise issue whenever possible!

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