Pigs in the Peleton

['Dale]

Important topic.

 

Calling anyone pigs, albeit metaphor, in the subject title. Just too angry and annoyed now, ain't it.

[Long Wheel Base]

 

I'm ok with tossing fruit because it is "natural" and will decompose and probably be good to the soil afterwards. But thats if its left off the road where no-one can see it. Dumping that in the road or on the trail is not on.

Who came up with these figures? Shame the poor person had to sit and watch a babies nappy full of k@k for 550 years.

[Wayne pudding Mol]

If it was only in and around the city ....... ok, that is bad enough, I know, but I climb and fish and cycle in all kind of wild places, and you won't believe how people think it is ok to just chuck rubbish everywhere, even in a nature reserve.

 

If I look around me in Cape Town, then it definitely got worse over the years. I'm not sure if the city doesn't clean up as much as they used to, or if people litter more, but my suspicion is the latter.

 

The litter I see in the streets are almost entirely shopping and especially fast food related plastic, paper and styrofoam things. I say, let's start charging a deposit on recyclable plastic  and by banning ALL other plastic packaging. Ban ALL fast food restaurants from using the containers they currently use. What must they use? Let them figure it out! Thy cannot simply wash their hands once they hand it to the litterbug masses!

 

The government is constantly looking for revenue to fill their coffers to continue the cycle of misspending and misappropriation, I think a fine for each litter item from fast food outlets would work. A mandatory barcode on each wrapper/box. How to police it is above my paygrade but KFC litter boils my blood

[LeoKnight]

Think you missed the big pic of a dog turd for Paris there. The amount of poop on parisian streets in disgusting. 

 

Back the Gu wrappers etc, I wanted to produce a jersey with  one of the 3 pockets on the back being plastic lined / water proof so you can stuff your messy gu wrappers in there and easily wash it out at the end of the day. The left over stuff wouldn't seep through and get your back all sticky. 

 

I do something that is probably bad for my bib, but I sometimes roll up the gu packet and then just tuck it under the edge of the bib, rrather there than in my shirt pocket

[DJR]

I do something that is probably bad for my bib, but I sometimes roll up the gu packet and then just tuck it under the edge of the bib, rrather there than in my shirt pocket

That's where I keep them as well. Easy to stick them there when going full blast, and definitely safer than to try get them back into a pocket at 50 km/h.