Time to bring back the wombles!
I think people are fed up with being told what to do and how to behave, so they just don't care anymore. Probably never did, we have had a poo bag abandon problem on exmoor for years. Particularly at tarr steps, where I've seen a hedge strewn with them for several hundred yards on a path leading away from a car park. Despite notices and bins for the offending articles!
When I worked on dartmoor as a volunteer with the ranger, we often had to clear up excretion, both human and dog, cans, bottles, and dirty nappies at popular spots, and rubbish thrown from cars on the roadside, and that was in the 1980s.
I think this waffles too much and needs to be more concise and to the point.
Recently cleared a whole bin bags worth of cans bottles and plastic from one small area about 20 feet across, and deconstructed and restored back to invisibility a fire pit scar at the same spot.
Thats just lockdown locals!
Since lockdown ended just less than a week ago, we have been inundated with hikers and dog walkers. The fields are full of lambs. So thats a real worry for local farmers.
poo bags and deposits have started to creep up in number already, along with plastic drink bottles and sweet wrappers.
I went for a trundle on Sunday and I chose the route as I normally never see a soul. I met six family groups all with dogs in less than a mile on the pathway, so took to woodland deer paths and fields instead.
Good job I know my way around.!
I'm waiting for the inevitable lost dog notices to go up very soon.
There have already been fires on dartmoor from abandoned foil bbqs, and I expect the same will happen here too.
They should be banned!
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