After the refuse collectors had done their 'work' in Hackney, East London. Something for Mr Manners, perhaps. Or the dogs, stray cats and rats
Hackney, East London, conservation area plant tub. As perceived by those passing by, a place for planting things
Two days of uncleared waste at the front entrance of a north London NHS hospital, just near the visitors' eating tables
Two days of uncleared waste at the front entrance of a north London NHS hospital, and the security man just smiled on being advised about it. The waste continued to gather
Same north London NHS hospital, where the dirty tissue paper coagulating on the sink perhaps attested to a collection of filthy female patients and visitors
And where the female patients and visitors mistakenly imagined the floor in front of the toilet had had surgery (the doctors negligently omitting to remove the swabs?)
A National Westminster Bank waste bin for information receipts from its cash dispensing machine. Protection of customer details was, it seems, not a priority
Sainsbury's heap o' trash, on the other side of the recycling bins, was invisible to those in its Islington, London, car park. Out of this large food store's sight, out of its mind
Side garden of SOAS, University of London where the relaxing students lacked the mental skills to make the necessary like-comparison between themselves and nasty polluting industrial capitalists. Imagine this trickle of waste paper effluent increased one thousandfold and you have a Marxist conference event
2009 comment: The sites shown in these photos will be updated and what improvements exist over the past 10 years will hopefully be demonstrated. But this will, of course, only be for visible signs of littering. The organisations and places concerned still need, as of 2009, to deal with their invisible network of mental detritus, germ-laden cleaning cloths, and employee nose-wiping (where does that hand next go?!). Organisations holding personal data still internally fail to secure and shred data systematically from waste-bin upwards leaving their contents open to the personal data salesmen and to potential soft blackmailers.
The unfortunate effect of centralised rather than personal waste management has been bureaucratic diktats and fining of unusual cases of refuse dropping by local councils. Instead of spending money on wasteful administrative harrasment the local authorities should spend it on exploring and encouraging central government to examine seriously the possibilities of converting bulk waste to fuel.
