InterCity Litter

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Morning'

Took the Intercity up from Cork to Dublin this afternoon and after getting off I brought my read newspaper out with me to dispose of.

While I walked up the train I noticed that I was obviously the only one on the train with the same idea. Seats, Tables, Corridors were littered with everything from crumpled up A4 sheets to cans of Bud, entire Sunday Times (all 428 pages), the entire product offerings of most crisp makers known to man and even paper plates with salad remnants on them. Worst of all was where someone had disposed of their fingerlickin' good drumsticks directly on the table. A pool of grease was already forming.

Now, we are not world reknowed for being the most neat&tidy nation, but this is surely taking it a bit far?? What are schools teaching these days?

Do you reckon a bit of advertising or an announcement ala Ryanair "Please take your rubbish with you" would have any effect? Or is it a hopeless case (see "Seats are not for feet" campaign, which still sees every second gob****e putting their mucky doc martins on CIE's choice upholstery) and we are never going to do it, all dates back to the famine etc. We need litter otherwise we would put cleaning staff out of jobs etc. etc.?

Discuss.