It's rubbish night tonight, and my house is right next to a block of flats. Where my neighbours had put their bins, there was a congregation of half a dozen crows, cawing and flitting about. I couldn't see what they were after, because the bins I could see were the tall green-rubbish bins, and the only one which was partly open due to being over-full was full of branches, which would hardly be attractive to crows.

So I walked slowly up to them, and of course they all flew away, but I saw what they were after. Tucked behind the tall green-rubbish bins, where I had been unable to see it, was one of the shorter red-rubbish bins, and *it* was over-full too. And right at the very top of it, with a faint smell of meat (faint to a human nose, that is) was a full, squishy bag of wet pet food. I mean, the bag was also inside a plastic rubbish bag, but the plastic rubbish bag already had several rents torn in it. The pet food bag was much tougher, there were no holes in it... yet.

Seriously, what was that person *thinking*? They aren't even supposed to be putting food into the red bins any more, let alone stuffing the bin so full that the lid won't close properly, with pet food at the very *top*.

Rank stupidity.

I hope the crows get ALL the meat.

#Wildlife #Rubbish #BinNight

#space is getting messy #starlink #rubbish and #satellites just big chunks of stuff falling from the sky all the time - #sky #observations #photography 2-3 sec exposure - lucky mess

Please don't be prophetic, little graffitied dumpster.

#boom #photography #monochrome #dumpster #skip #rubbish #graffiti

The price of deregulation - when will Wasteminster ever learn that fixing the problem is always more expensive than stopping it happening in the first place? See floodingโ€ฆ.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/01/organised-waste-crime-dump-uk-environment

#Monbiot #Waste #Crime #NoAction #Rubbish #Tipping

Say hello to the UKโ€™s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime

Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds."

Thomas Merton

#quoteoftheday #GreatestNeed #Clutter #Rubbish #AGoodCleaning

International Shredding Person can have a nice day out, as a treat  

#Tidyman #InternationalTidyman #Rubbish #Shredding #InternationalShreddingPerson #TogetherAlliance

TIL the iconic person throwing rubbish into a bin graphic is known (to some) as International Tidyman. International Shredding Person can also happen...

#Tidyman #InternationalTidyman #Rubbish #Shredding

By now the #UKElectorate should be painfully aware that there is NO LEADERSHIP in the #UKGov. There hasnโ€™t been for decades, only #ToxicNarcissists have held this mantle. Regardless of party or circumstances in which they arrived as #PM they all have been #rubbish at their jobs and #Liars at their core. Does the country want this to continue to be the #Norm? I wonder at times. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/peter-mandelson-papers-prime-minister-dissenting-voices-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Mandelson papers reveal a prime minister who would rather not hear from dissenting voices

Warnings were ignored because No 10 had already made up its mind to let Peter Mandelson sail through, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian

Some human pigs left all their garbage along the side of the road.

#garbage #rubbish