Jayne; You must ask yourself should those same Park Rangers pick up on the roadsides, the bush and the beach on their way through..
IMO It’s a nonsense to expect someone else to pick up all our rubbish however I often pick up busted beer bottles in playgrounds and on the sand where kids play is bare feet. Their parents have no idea of the hidden shards that lurk after all night parties dissolve into the dawn. I have also become extremely aggressive to any bums with similar disregard close to home. My reaction started after spending a few hours in A&E.
Off topic if I can quote Senator Bill Heffernan (ABC Difference of Opinion this week) there is another angle to this throw away society.
Bottled water is "a community con", says Heffernan
Some bottles of treated drinking water are now imported from China and are selling at supermarket prices greater than our own bottled pure water. He goes on about milk being the looser.
Hi Gavin,
Indeed the plastic bottles etc are a nuisance to the eye as well to wildlife.
It's quite familiar now for the public that marine mammals might swallow plastic bags and die.
I don't know how it is in Australia but in Sweden now the plastic around 6-packs is banned. Birds mostly sea birds got it all wrapped around their beaks and died of starvation. There was a campaign ( with some ugly photos) and the plastic was banned...
There is another problem here as well with beer cans and Coke cans along the roadside. When the lawn mower makes its work the aluminium will become to little pieces that cows etc that are grazing eat. This causes damage to the intestines and stomache and the animals die of internal injuries.
Thanks for the information on maggots and hedgehogs, Ann. One wonders how hedgehogs survived in the past. There is a similar problem with sheep in Australia, but they are not, of course, native to this land. I wonder if genetic modification could produce a fly that would selectively lay eggs on some contributors to this blog? What an evil thought, Davey. I shall immediately flog myself and say 2000 Hail Marys, with a smirk on my face.
Jayne; You must ask yourself should those same Park Rangers pick up on the roadsides, the bush and the beach on their way through..
IMO It’s a nonsense to expect someone else to pick up all our rubbish however I often pick up busted beer bottles in playgrounds and on the sand where kids play is bare feet. Their parents have no idea of the hidden shards that lurk after all night parties dissolve into the dawn. I have also become extremely aggressive to any bums with similar disregard close to home. My reaction started after spending a few hours in A&E.
Off topic if I can quote Senator Bill Heffernan (ABC Difference of Opinion this week) there is another angle to this throw away society.
Bottled water is "a community con", says Heffernan
http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=264308
Some bottles of treated drinking water are now imported from China and are selling at supermarket prices greater than our own bottled pure water. He goes on about milk being the looser.
http://abc.net.au/tv/differenceofopinion/
I guess many people can’t think for themselves about what they are doing to our society at any level of entertainment.
Hi Gavin,
Indeed the plastic bottles etc are a nuisance to the eye as well to wildlife.
It's quite familiar now for the public that marine mammals might swallow plastic bags and die.
I don't know how it is in Australia but in Sweden now the plastic around 6-packs is banned. Birds mostly sea birds got it all wrapped around their beaks and died of starvation. There was a campaign ( with some ugly photos) and the plastic was banned...
There is another problem here as well with beer cans and Coke cans along the roadside. When the lawn mower makes its work the aluminium will become to little pieces that cows etc that are grazing eat. This causes damage to the intestines and stomache and the animals die of internal injuries.
Davey,
Some interesting information.
Hedgehogs lived together with the dinosaurs.... this makes the Erinaceidae family the oldest living insectivore.
Thanks for the information on maggots and hedgehogs, Ann. One wonders how hedgehogs survived in the past. There is a similar problem with sheep in Australia, but they are not, of course, native to this land. I wonder if genetic modification could produce a fly that would selectively lay eggs on some contributors to this blog? What an evil thought, Davey. I shall immediately flog myself and say 2000 Hail Marys, with a smirk on my face.