The other week I had to talk to the Sports Centre near me about the amount of rubbish appearing on the road where I live. It turned out they were allowing anyone to walk in and use their vending machine, and so mounds of bottles and litter were starting to appear.

After discussing it, they stopped this from happening and now do a regular clean up in the car park and the street where I live. I also help clearing up when I walk my dog to the park every day, simply picking up bits lying around.

None of the people throwing this rubbish down, or letting their dogs crap all over my street are travellers or gypsies.

We also have fly-tipping down here in the West Country. This will, I'm sure, increase as it becomes more and more difficult/expensive for folks to dispose of things at council rubbish dumps. I'm sure many builders tend to 'lose' rubbish they remove from people's houses..and I'm just as sure that many of them will NOT be gypsies or travellers.

There are good and bad everywhere, as can be seen in this very thread, and I find it perhaps fitting that the sort of personality who is coming across as deeply unpleasant and uncaring about others is having a go at folks he regards as being deeply unpleasant and uncaring too.

You are scattering your own rubbish around these threads, Bluesman, spoiling the view, with no thought or regard for anyone around you.