Please Sign The Petition To Help Reduce Litter On Our Streets

[Gizmonster]

Something that actually makes sense and may deter some people from throwing their fast food packaging out of the car window after they've been to a drive-thru.
Simple solution - print the car registration on the food packaging.

Please sign here:
https://democracythree.org/en-gb/vehicle-drive-thru

[choux]

How would that work? Mirrors on long poles through the ordering window? Asking the driver for the reg? Extra cctv, waiting for the previous car to move away? Giz I don't think it would get many, plus how could it be proved that after eating the repast the driver had not placed the wraps in a rubbish bin?

[Gizmonster]

I'm sure most drive-thrus already have CCTV.

According to the link:
//// The technology exists to make this a relatively straightforward and pain-free change for drive-thru fast food outlets yet the impact could be huge. ////

Once they bin their rubbish, it shouldn't end up on the street. Any litter found on the street could be followed up and traced back to the owner of the car. What's not to like??

[barry1010]

I've seen litter bins emptied by seagulls, foxes, cats. The wind can blow litter out of bins, people empty bins as some kind of strange joke.
Most of the litter I see in my locality comes from the chip shops, dropped by pedestrians

[New Judge]

//Simple solution - print the car registration on the food packaging.//

Is it that simple?

What do you do when you have that information? Who do you hold responsible for the littering? The Registered Keeper (who is the only person or body identifiable from your plan)? What about hired or leased cars? Will Mr Hertz and Ms Avis be inundated with penalty notices?

[Lie-in King]

Signed, though I don't hold much hope that it's entirely workable.

[choux]

I thought drive-thru eating was also about speed of customer-service. Would staff have to change the angle of existing cameras, say from faces to reg plates? Have you never seen vandals emptying rubbish bins or councils not collecting the rubbish until the bins are overflowing? I still think there would be some required eye witness or cctv coverage of the litter being dumped.

[douglas9401]

Will this be printed on the wrappers of every item? I can see how it might appeal but thinking it through it's not going to happen.

Just close the drive through sections and get the oafs to walk for their pail o' chicken or whatever their preferred slow death is.

A digital photo of their lumpen faces along with the postcode registered to their payment card might work better.

Of course it'll never happen as it infringes their right to identify as filthy pigs.

[New Judge]

// Any litter found on the street could be followed up and traced back to the owner of the car.//

As above, it won't be traced to the owner but to the Registered Keeper (who may or may not be the owner).

A mile or two from me there is, alas, a drive through McDonalds. Many of the "diners" collect their order and then park in the car park to consume them in the comfort of their vehicles. Far better, it seems, to get grease and coffee over your car seats than sitting at the tables provided inside (but it does, of course, save the VAT).

Many of them dutifully discard the wrappings in the McDonalds bins. From time to time (usually two or three times a week) some of the more boisterous customers think it is great amusement to empty these bins over the forecourt and the garbage is cast to the four winds, much of it ending up on the highway. Under your plan, any of this litter that is later collected by the Council could be examined and the customers who have done the right thing with it end up with a letter in the post.

It really is not so simple as you'd have us believe.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm fairly sure most folk are able to rip out part of a bit of packaging before slinging the rest out.

[Gizmonster]

I'm not claiming that this is a magic weapon to eliminate littering completely .... but if it just deters a small percentage of would-be litterers ..... then I'm all for it :)

[choux]

Don't get me wrong, Giz I fully agree with the sentiment.

Not sure if it is AB or age that has made me cynical ;)

[Gizmonster]

//// Not sure if it is AB or age that has made me cynical ;) ////

.... or both lol ??

[Ellipsis]

Here's a different idea: force (with legislation) the drive-thru companies to employ people to pick up litter around their town. This will give more job opportunities, and also add to the price of the food, which means that fewer people will be buying and discarding the litter in the first place.

[Khandro]

This petition is complete nonsense of course.

I would stop all litter on the streets by adopting a robust approach like that of Lee Kuan Yew who cleaned Singapore from chewing gum on the pavements by really huge fines & then actually banning chewing gum sales.

We can't realistically stop fast food to go sales, but we could introduce a fine of say £1,000 for anyone throwing their rubbish in the streets. I suggest £500 pounds of the fine to go to the reporter of the offender, & the other £500 to the council.

Sorted!