- It brings flies around - and dogs and it's smelly and
untidy
- Junk mail not collected and blown around with the wind
- I blame the people not the council, also dog owners who
let their dogs go in the street
- Linwood High School students dropping litter in the
streets and the park
- An abandoned vehicle on street since November and Linwood
High School students litter
- Rubbish thrown over back fence from Linwood High School
students walking through Edmonds park
- Linwood High School students dropping their rubbish
- General rubbish blows through complex from the street and
Edmonds park
- Linwood High School students throw their rubbish on the
street
- Linwood High School students dumping rubbish on the
street - it blows on the property
- Fish and chip papers rubbish generally from shops
- Burst rubbish bags
- Choked gutters full of garbage, leaves
- Rubbish containers not being cleared enough
- Dog litter
- Take-away food papers and plastic bottles. Circulars
falling out of boxes and blown about
- Dog litter, spitting by school students
- Rubbish off trailers
- Rubbish in the streets not enough bins to place rubbish
- People polluting the water Avon river by Carlton Mill
corner
- Leave it at my gate, blows in my property
- Paper off trailers going to metro station
- Litter from kids coming home from school - dog faeces on
grass
- Junk mail flying around - animal droppings
- Dog faeces, general rubbish on street around area
- Litter blowing around streets
- Litter off people's trailers going to metro station
take-aways discarded out of car windows
- Rubbish from industry opposite side of road blowing into
respondent's backyard - very dusty also
- Lack of responsibility of kids - just dropping rubbish
- Blows up driveway
- General litter
- Beer bottles, tins
- General litter
- People dropping rubbish
- Fast food wrappers and junk mail
- Glass
- Rubbish coming off trailers
- People going to dump don't cover their trailers and
rubbish is spread along Bexley Road
- Unsecured trailers on way to metro station dropping
rubbish
- Litter from Wainoni school and unsound domestic trailers
on way to metro is a regular problem especially at
weekends
- People throw rubbish from cars and streets here a lot of
litter - not enough bins
- Gutters
- Rubbish from the New World supermarket
- Paper and plastic bags
- Rubbish being thrown in the river
- Leaves in gutters
- Cans and broken bottles left on lawn and footpath
- Broken glass needs cleaning up more quickly and general
rubbish
- Take-away wrappers and cans
- McDonalds wrappers etc.
- Cans and leaves
- General paper and fast food contain and bottles
- Litter from passing motorists
- Litter blows up drive
- Papers, McDonalds, KFC containers
- The rubbish bags that the dogs get into
- General rubbish
- Things that kids could pick up - dropped by passing
people
- Junk mail not collected falls out and blows around,
usually from boxes at the front when houses are down
drives
- Rubbish that is non-biodegradable and is left lying
around
- Teenagers emptying their rubbish out of their cars
- Circulars and Christchurch star litter the area
- McDonalds and KFC take-aways stuff
- Litter always in gutters, dogs ripping rubbish bags and
the rubbish people don't pick up the newspapers
- Noticing the odd thing, people not sweeping the yards
- Papers - not a lot here, the wind takes care of any
rubbish quite quickly
- Not a lot of litter, I walk everyday so I do see it
- Just general litter. People throw rubbish in gutter
- Lazy kids dropping chip wrappers, ice block wrappers
- People going home from the pub, want to kick a rubbish
bag around
- Bit of rubbish around
- Rubbish bags ripped and contents scattered
- Rubbish thrown into the street. Junk mail
- Wind gets junk mail and spreads it around
- McDonalds cartons, other rubbish
- Broken glass, dog effluent
- Not enough rubbish bins around especially round shopping
centres
- Rubbish bags get torn apart by dogs and then not cleared
away
- Shops up the road - people dump, drop stuff on their way
down the street
- Split rubbish bags where dogs have got in, don't see the
sweeper trucks very often - once every three or four
months
- The amount of it - the consistency - I go out and clean
up my street and then by evening it's back again.
Children dropping wrappers
- The amount of paper blowing around
- Papers flying around wrappings etc especially if it's
windy
- Drink containers and food containers
- Leaves
- Some people don't give a damn - things that blow out of
letter boxes etc
- Empty food containers from fast food outlets dumped
everywhere
- Paper and chewing gum - paper sometimes flies into pram
while walking baby
- Only leaves
- Coke bottles and papers dropped on our property
- Kids throwing rubbish out - it ending up on my section
- Looks scruffy sometimes, a bit of litter lying around
- Tins and bottles all over the place. Rubbish bags ripped
open
- People leaving rubbish in driveway - shared access
- Ripped open rubbish bags not taken away
- Fast food rubbish
- Junk mail and fast food wrappers
- Just general rubbish
- People just throw their rubbish everywhere
- Trolleys from the supermarket
- Supermarket trolleys, general rubbish
- Junk mail and general rubbish
- Broken glass and rubbish
- Bottles
- General rubbish
- Ice cream wrappers and cash-flow outlet slips
- General rubbish - passing cars sometimes throw bottles
- Wrappers from nearby shops
- Letter box fliers blowing around
- Junk mail from letter boxes blowing around. Also rubbish
bags left out
- Litter in gutters and doggy doos
- Dogs and cats rip open the bags (rubbish) and terribly
messy. The kids drop lolly papers
- Amount of rubbish thrown over my fence - cans and bottles
- Gutters blocked, leaves and rubbish
- More rubbish in the gutters
- Broken rubbish bags - plastic
- Paper lying around the streets
- Street looks untidy
- Dogs destroying rubbish bags and junk mail thrown on the
lawn
- High school (Linwood) children dropping their rubbish
- Drink bottles especially glass smashed. Rubbish bags
destroyed by animals and not picked up
- Rubbish bags get destroyed by animals and too much junk
mail
- Rubbish bags get left behind and the rubbish gets
distributed everywhere
- Rubbish left from rubbish bags and cats, dogs pull it all
out
- Rubbish bags are destroyed by animals - mostly cats -
leaving a terrible mess
- Seems to be a lot
- People's rubbish
- Animals getting into rubbish bags - people putting soap
into fountain around the corner
- Leaves and people's rubbish clogging gutters
- Take-away rubbish
- McDonalds wrappers
- Rubbish bags not collected and dogs get into them - dogs
poos over footpath
- People throwing litter out of cars. People leaving own
personal rubbish in CCC containers especially near
dairies
- Rubbish from passing traffic - both pedestrian and car
- Chip packets, chocolate wrappers, boxes from supermarket
- Letter box junk mail - left to blow about
- Chewing gum, things off back of trailers
- Rubbish from industries that are making lots of money
from these things KFC and McDonalds etc.
- After sports on Saturday rubbish from the clubrooms
across the road McKintosh park, bottles and cans, a
mixture of litter
- Paper and plastic bags, food rubbish I guess
- When you're mowing the lawns and you find rubbish thrown
over the fence or on the grass outside the property
- People who throw rubbish in the gutters especially living
near a drain, the rubbish tends to blow down here
- The people who throw litter
- Rubbish - bits of paper
- Litter dropped by Cashmere high school kids, bottles
poked in the hedge, chip packets littering streets
- Tree leaves from trees in street
- Junk mail that misses box
- Circulars blowing around
- Leaves
- Rubbish lying around - circulars blowing around
- Basically just litter thrown away
- Down Maidstone Road - dog droppings, fast food packages
- An untidy collection of rubbish under Styx bridge
- Junk mail blown out of letter boxes
- Other people's rubbish being dropped and then blown into
our front yard
- Rubbish near transfer station Cavendish Road and Styx
Mill Road
- Litter by river
- Dog faeces
- Flyers that miss letterboxes
- Untidy people
- Dog faeces
- Spoils the environment
- Seaview Road and New Brighton mall get very messy
- People travelling to the metro with uncovered trailers
- Cabbage tree leaves block gutters and storm water drains
- Uncovered trailers - things that fly off while they're
driving and garbage bags not being picked up
- I don't like to see rubbish
- Rubbish that falls off people's trailers
- Smashed beer bottles, paper, dog muck
- Blocked drains with litter. Litter just dropped in our
garden
- Stray pieces of paper floating around
- Bottles in gutter newspapers blowing around
- Sick of dog fouling
- Mail leaflets falling out of letter boxes, especially
junk near bus stops
- Junk mail falling out of letterbox - or sitting on top of
letterbox
- Live in Watsons Road - rural area - people dump rubbish
on the roadside and old Xmas trees etc.
- Live in green belt - people drive out to Watsons Road
near Harewood Road and dump rubbish
- Whitchurch Place dead end behind church - Xmas tree
rubbish and lawn clippings from church
- The leaves in this street are a real problem. They should
be cleaned up more often. They should send the cleaner
around about once a fortnight
- The leaves are terrible, they block the drains - Glenmore
Avenue drain is full of leaves and take-away wrappers and
we have to clear it out
- People throwing stuff from cars - it always contains
glass and it lands on the street
- Rubbish lying around the road from the nearby shops
- People throwing rubbish out car windows, dog droppings,
circulars out of mailboxes, ripped rubbish bags
- Paper blowing around
- Just rubbish around properties, and lawns not mowed that
type of stuff
- Vandals getting in the park up the road and chucking the
rubbish around from the bins. Overturned clothing bin
near shop
- Litter on Marine Parade and public areas
- McDonalds bags and fish and chip papers tossed on the
side of the road
- Deposits from dogs
- Litter from re-cycling area, litter from supermarket
(plastic bags, cardboard boxes etc.)
- Litter always in my garden - beer cans, chip packets,
McDonalds wrappers
- Just to see it there, it doesn't help young people to see
it there - poor example
- Bits of paper lying around
- People are so untidy
- I think it's unnecessary - paper lying about
- Horse droppings on the footpath from riding schools down
Bridle Path Road
- Take-away packets
- Boys high hostel residents, littering street
- School children dropping rubbish in driveway
- Children and young people's fast food wrappers
- Food wrappers packaging
- Fish and chip paper McDonalds wrappers drink bottles
(broken glass)
- Rubbish along the walkway (Esplanade), especially after
the weekends rubbish outside mall area in Sumner
- Too much dog poo on the Esplanade
- People who throw used paper hankies, cigarette butts and
empty drink cans in my garden. Sweet papers etc dropped
in the street
- Junk mail and paper food packages flying around. Also
builders gear - black paper and polystyrene from all the
building going on around
- Children buying things from corner dairy, drop papers
instead of putting them in the bins provided
- Rubbish in gutters
- Bottles and papers
- Paper, sweet papers, bottles and cartons - the children
from Cashmere High just biff them down
- Dog faeces
- The leaves are never cleared up then all the drains block
after a downpour
- Just people dropping their drink bottle, residents take
no responsibility for litter outside their gate
- Rubbish bags burst open
- People's lazy attitudes towards dropping things
- People chucking paper and cans out of car windows - young
people do this
- Kids chucking bottles and cans and not putting them in
the rubbish bins
- Wind blown rubbish. It gathers round here
- The dog mess is bad
- Dogs mess around the neighbourhood. Rubbish left around
the streets after rubbish bags have split open. Council
workers do not pick up spilt contents
- Dog poos - cans fast food wrappers etc.
- People put their rubbish bags out on Sunday night and
they get broken up by cats - it's not dogs it's cats
- Dog fouling
- Untidy streets and rubbish left lying around
- Litter bins overflowing
- Nayland Street off Wakefield Avenue - endless rubbish
lying around Arononi track has a lot of rubbish on it
- Dog poo
- Bottom of Arononi track paper and junk lying around
- Dog poo! Major problem, chip packets, ice cream wrappers,
food wrappers, surplus junk mail
- Advertising pamphlets
- Papers, McDonalds rubbish
- People throwing paper on the paths
- KFC cartons, leaves
- People going to dump drop things off trailers - rubbish
bags broken open by cats
- People grossly untidy, drop their rubbish
- I can't bear seeing beer cans, bottles and plastic
rubbish around the place
- The dreadful mess left by 400 cows using Old Tai Tapu
Road twice a day
- See 43 - litter from neighbours children
- Cans and packets dropped by people leaving the Woolston
Working Mens club, street sweeper doesn't operate as
often as is necessary
- Leaves block the gutters, trees overhang footpaths, dogs
are attracted to the litter (from burst rubbish bags)
- Burst rubbish bags are often offensive
- Papers lie in gutters and footpaths
- That people don't care about dropping litter people don't
supervise their dogs
- Burst rubbish bags
- Little that comes onto our property. The litter dropped
by school kids
- McDonalds packets, KFC paper
- People just dropping litter not bothering to find a
rubbish bin
- Rubbish thrown put of car windows that collects in the
gutter
- Indiscriminate littering
- Circulars fall out of boxes and fly around - McDonalds
wrappers
- People do not use rubbish tins
- Drains blocked at end of gutters, containing lots of
plastic rubbish
- Rubbish from untidy houses ends up on the street
- People don't put things in rubbish tins
- General rubbish
- Rubbish
- Students rubbish bags left because they are not
regulation ones. Dogs eat them and scatter rubbish
- Quite often have to pick things up, they throw rubbish
through fence
- That people can just drop their rubbish on the ground
really. I have to keep cleaning it up from in front of my
house
- There's a lot a litter and the street is messy
- Because there seems to be a mentality of not taking
responsibility for own litter
- Litter at my bus stop, outside my property
- Leaves in gutter and footpath in Kain Avenue need to be
swept up
- Because Brighton isn't very beautiful and it doesn't take
much to make to look worse
- There's a lot of litter, it looks terrible, the beach is
my neighbourhood and it's full of rubbish and broken
glass
- Paper blowing into our property - it's junk mail and
suburban newspapers sometimes cans and paper rubbish in
the gutter
- Just paper and broken rubbish bags
- The leaves - they are not picked up often enough
- Junk food packaging, circulars, beer containers -
bottles, cans and smashed glass, dog droppings
- Wind blowing rubbish on to properties
- Fliers end up on the road and driveway
- Occasional rubbish bag split and rubbish everywhere.
Refuse drops off trailers
- Dog litter
- Mostly paper blowing around
- A lot of dogs go to the loo on my garden and on the
footpath
- There's lots of litter on the beach. We've got to be
responsible when it comes to this
- People throwing rubbish out of car windows along Marine
Parade
- Plastic bags on the way to the dump, unsecured rubbish
has fallen off, ends up in the estuary where wildlife is
affected, rubbish and pollution on beaches
- The dropping of good containers from fast food outlets.
And bottles on the beaches - it must come from foreign
boats
- The amount of it - rubbish from the dairy, rubbish that
people leave on the beach
- Amount of it - people leave it lying around. People
waiting for buses leave litter - usually kids - ice cream
wrappers
- I'm forever going outside and picking it up. Town throw
rubbish
- Paper litter out on driveway and front of house
- Bottles in gutter
- General paper and plastic rubbish
- Bottles in gutters
- Fast food wrappers
- Circulars blowing around the roads out of letterboxes
- Rubbish in water, Avon. Linwood area. Waimakariri River.
Litter - motorway bridge area. Rubbish coming off
trailers near Wigram going to refuse station
- Litter in gutters, council don't clear our gutters in our
area - Berwick Courts
- Rubbish in gutters, it floods and I can't get across
street
- General litter - cans in gutters on footpaths and drink
bottles
- Plastic bottles papers etc.
- I don't think the gutters get swept enough
- Papers and fast food cartons like KFC and broken glass
and the leaves - I don't feel the roads are swept often
enough
- Fast food packaging
- It's only leaves that are a problem
- Often people leave their rubbish bags out over night and
sometimes dogs or cats rip the bags to shreds
- Normal litter particularly after rubbish collection (dogs
breaking open bags), there is a lot of dog faeces on
footpaths around here, it is bad here
- School children drop rubbish. They need education not to
do it
- The amount of dog mess on footpaths and grass verges and
the beach in our locality
- Dog litter on foot paths, it is bad and constant
- Dog mess on the footpaths
- Dog mess - litter left by people who come to fish near by
- General - street cleaner could come more often
- Bottles, KFC packets, milk shake containers
- Litter from take-aways in guttering
- Gutter leaves rubbish
- Cartons from McDonalds
- KFC, McDonalds wrappers soft drink bottles rubbish that
was not in council bag left lying around
- Animals getting to rubbish bags. Rubbish in gutters
- Untidiness in gutters
- Dogs fouling the footpath
- Loose paper blowing around
- Plastic bottles and papers could people be encouraged to
clear their own street frontages
- Leaves don't get moved and cause blockages, not paper
rubbish
- Junk mail doesn't get collected, blows over the streets
and blocks up the gutters
- People that don't pick up after their dogs
- Rubbish bags if they've been left out and the dogs have
got to them
- Occasional junk mail in street
- People throw take-aways, wrappings out of cars, also
lolly wrappers
- Stuff thrown from cars - fast food containers drinks
bottles - plastic
- Empty bottles McDonalds wrappers
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