Letter: Clampdown on littering is needed

I remember when people were allowed out after the Covid Pandemic. The same thing happened, hot sunny weather, hundreds of people flocked to Chatsworth, eating and drinking, then walked away leaving piles of rubbish, which someone at the time took photos of. In one case a sheep was sniffing around all the filth.

These people have no respect for anything. Do they expect to arrive for their day out at Chatsworth to find loads of rubbish left by other people? They would be the first to complain. It happened everywhere, the beaches all over the country were left with piles of rubbish, including dirty nappies buried in the sand.

Local people went out to clear it all. Every time there is hot weather, the same thing happens. It is disgusting wherever it is.

On the beaches, all that rubbish, if washed in to the sea, will kill many sea creatures like whales and dolphins and seals who in the past, have tried to eat it. In Chatsworth the sheep try to eat the rubbish and they could choke and die.

There is a need for that area to be monitored in the summer, by some kind of wardens, to clamp down on these selfish ignorant people, but I suppose a risk assessment will rule it out, because the kind of people who leave all this rubbish, are often the aggressive types who think no one should tell them that they should bin their rubbish.

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