Rubbish!

One of the reasons I dislike living in a city is because parts of it resemble a huge rubbish tip. Some people that live or work in the city (or both) treat it as a giant land fill site by throwing their rubbish down on the ground instead of putting it in the rubbish bins or taking it with them until they see a bin.
If someone drops litter on the street and gets caught then they could find themselves in front of the magistrates who could fine them. Unfortunately, the fines aren't large enough to deter people and it is very rare indeed for anyone to be prosecuted. Perhaps if there were more people caught and the fines were much bigger then people would do it less. Maybe they do the same in their own homes too, I just dread to think.
Of course there are permanent street cleaners, (or street cleansing operatives as they are now called) in the city centre but the areas just outside are only done every so often. Where I live, they're almost an extinct breed. There are a few places which are hidden from the main road where commuters park, children walk to school and most people use as a short cut so the lane and street are always strewn with rubbish which only gets cleared when someone complains. Occasionally there have been black plastic refuse sacks full of rubbish dumped by the commuters that park in the area. As they arrive very early in the morning no-one sees who it is that is leaving their rubbbish. All these people need to do is drive another two minutes up the road and they can leave it at the local re-cycling and refuse depot, but perhaps it's too much to expect them to do that.