Old Hwys that have been bypassed are now just dumping areas!!.

It's amazing the lengths that some mongrels will go to Axel. When I was working in Shepparton some years ago, mongrels from Melbourne would come up from Melbourne with tanker loads of oils and heavy weight toxic substances and spray them on the dusty unsealed roads. Locals thought it was the coucil puttinig something on to keep the dust down. It contaminated farmlands and ground water.Check out any spare block of land in industrial estates in the city, people just dump trailer loads of rubbish on them, usually late at night to avoid tip fees. Perhaps if our cost cutting councils didn't charge the rate payers to use the "transfer stations" or do away with hard rubbish, we'd see less of the roadside dumping. Let's give the EPA some more money in the Federal Spendfest. That might help too.

Mick

Especially after the Vic fires.......and how many do start fires ?? the number of people who still throw their butts out the window....when the ashtray is only 8 inches away ??

And I know a few of you reading this are guilty.....maybe we should hold you down and stub some ciggie butts out on your arms and legs to get the message across !!!

Axle
Know exactly what you mean... couple of years back I had to meet a truck on the corner Wesco Rd and Hopkins Rd, I took the wrong road to start with and ended up on the East side of Barbagallo Raceway, so to get to Wesco rd I noticed on the gps a track , Orchid Rd , West Aussies will know where I was , anyhow this track was bloody rough through a forest, I was stunned to see so much rubish dumped in there, both household and Industrial , anyhow the track got me to the truck , he was still loading the Dozer,

this area on GE S31 38 36.9 E115 47 25.9

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Australians throw butts , litter and dump because the level of enforcement and fines are so low that it implies the government doesn't care and so you can do what you wish . Race and football crowds can use the lawn as a rubbish bin . Singapore used to be worse than Australia until the government brought in severe fines , try a weeks pay for a butt , or a years pay for discarding a newspaper . Singapore is now clean . Now before the left wing trendies among us claim that Singapore is a fascist state with no personal freedoms and we can't follow their lead , Switzerland is also clean , for the same reasons as Singapore .

When a government gets serious about litter , and the penalties take effect , a change in culture follows . Throw a butt in Singapore or Switzerland now and you probably wont be fined because a local will pick up the butt and return it to you with e friendly warning .

And for those concerned about draconian fines , these ones aren't because no one has to litter and incur the fine.