Stop the Drop, urges campaign
Tuesday 14th July 2009, 2:56PM BST.
Margaret Holland Prior with Paige Le Geyt, the junior winner. Picture by Jon Guegan (00742139)
A NEW initiative has been launched to encourage Islanders to stop dropping their litter.
Over a million pounds is spent each year on cleaning up litter, but the people behind the Stop the Drop Campaign hope to change all that.
The campaign was launched yesterday at the Old Magistrate’s Court by Margaret Holland Prior, who was inspired by a similar campaign launched by Bill Bryson to keep rural parts of the UK clean.
An advertising campaign and a schools poster competition were organised, the winners of the latter being Caroline Teixeira and Paige Le Geyt. Students from Haute Vallée School also created a television commercial about chewing gum being dropped.
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Well done Margaret Holland Prior for recognising that Jersey needs educating in preserving the natural beauty and wildlife of our island – from the numbers of cigarette butts, cans and packaging littering our beaches, headlands and streets, it is obvious that some members of the community have little respect for the environment….. and don’t get me started on those individuals who throw litter from their car windows – shame on you; take it home and dispose of your rubbish like civilised human beings !!
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there needs to be some robust law enforcement insofar as dropping litter in Jersey is concerned.
In England and Wales anyone caught dropping litter can be issued with a £75 fixed penalty notice, or as an alternative be summonsed to the Magistrates Court. The Maximum fine there is £2,500. The U.K. local papers often feature items on people who have been fined for this type of offence, yet I doubt you will ever read in the J.E.P. about someone being fined for littering.
In the Far East you can be fined on the spot up to $1,000 also in Australia and new Zealand they treat offenders robustly – in Jersey? Well little or nothing actually.
How about making those who drop litter clear up thier mess , by giving the Magistrate or indeed a Centenier the power to impose this as a penalty?
Having an Island with rubbish and litter strewn over the place is hardly the way to attract business and holiday makers.
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What can you say to a person who lets their child of 5 throw rubbish into bushes by their flat and also does it herself in the evening when leaving her car, she does this 10 steps from her front door !!!!
I have spoken to her but she blatently ignored me !!!
I have to look at this rubbish daily so do visitors on the way to the park.
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sl – walk down King Street and look at the parents and children – so many of them do not remonstrate with their children when they drop litter or make them pick it up. This is where the bad habits begin.
On the spot fines are the answer.
Twice a day I pick up litter from in front of my house and like you I find it really frustrating.
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I have complained to States people about the rubbish strewn all over the countryside – none of them give a stuff.
Every road has cans, plastic bottles and other rubbish strewn everywhere
This has only got so bad since our population was allowed to increse so much
Our states want more people here – how long before we cannot move for rubbish? I was told volunteers should pick it up – yeah right take my life into my hands picking up our over car infested race track main roads. I pick up around were I live that is depressing enough.
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