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IT MUST BE my fancy that dumping has actually got worse in the short time since the announcement by Nicholas Ridiculas, the environment secretary, that local councils were going to be made to clear up the litter swamping most of our island. There is more rubbish than ever. If there isn't, there will be.

Anyone in touch with the habits and customs of the littering classes knows that any protest brings forth the argument in aggressive tones, 'I pay me rates, don't I?' It is not advisable to make a point such as that the rates also pay for the fire service, for instance, but you don't burn your house down to make use of it. If councils are now to be forced to do what they should have been doing already, the rate-paying litterers reading about it have a splendid excuse for enthusiastically throwing more of the stuff out ...



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