- Fast food wrappers
- Fast food wrappers
- A lot of stuff lying around - it's not too bad
- People drop stuff and don't put it in bins, saw a kid
dropping coke bottle when he'd finished it
- Laziness of the people, more rubbish bins needed as well
- Generally too much rubbish dropped especially drink cans
and food wrappers and items which are unhealthy
- Health reasons
- Fast food rubbish being dropped
- Don't know
- People being lazy and dumping rubbish
- Papers, wrapping papers, food scraps lying
- General standard in centres could be higher. Rubbish from
take-aways is a problem
- The people who drop litter without a conscience
- Take-aways food containers
- Litter around cash flow machines
- Empty cans and fast food rubbish
- Take-away food containers
- There should be more rubbish tins available
- Minor rubbish
- Rubbish lying around - annoys me when other people just
drop their rubbish
- The rubbish is there to pick up by workers who do that
job. There is no reason for people to drop rubbish they
should put them in facilities available
- Ice cream wrappers bottles and general rubbish
- Litter three or four metres from a rubbish bin - lazy
people
- Way people drop it - don't use bins
- Litter all over footpaths especially in town
- People not using bins - often insufficient bins
- General litter
- Bins are not emptied often enough - overflow
- General litter
- Plastic bags
- Chip bags, cigarettes, fast food packaging
- General litter
- Fast food wrappers
- Fast food outlets
- Fast food wrappers
- Fast food wrappers etc.
- Bins are not used - people prefer to throw their litter
about
- The fast food places should keep the outsides tidier
- Inadequacy of rubbish tins and rubbish tins not cleared
frequently enough
- Fast food outlets drink cans
- Glue bags from street kids etc. and fast food wrappers
- Food containers
- Gloucester between Colombo and Worcester - the streets
area really disgusting
- Chewing gum, cigarette butts and graffiti
- Stupid irresponsible people
- Paper uncollected, rubbish bags, uncollected rubbish
drums
- Build up of litter
- Fast food litter
- Chewing gum, dog fouling
- Rubbish bins overflowing
- Graffiti and rubbish
- Broken bottles and general rubbish
- Supermarket trolleys left around the place. The car parks
and nearby streets
- Litter left or discarded around fast food areas in
Riccarton and the centre city areas
- Laziness on part of youth
- People dropping their rubbish. Fast food rubbish
- People throwing things out of their car windows paper
lying around
- Just seem that people drop their litter. Don't blame
council for it, blame people for being so untidy
- Mainly paper bags, cans, lot of stubby bottles
- Rubbish in general. McDonalds wrappers and bottles
- It has improved in last 12 months. Just general litter
- Fast food wrappers major concern at night
- When people throw rubbish down and there's a rubbish bin
handy
- Beer bottles, cigarette packets - general rubbish
- KFC, McDonalds containers the people throw. General
rubbish
- People don't use rubbish bins
- Ice cream containers, plastic bags
- New Brighton Mall - the large amount of it, the McDonalds
and KFC rubbish. It's a dirty, grubby area. Also the car
parks there
- A lot could be done to clean up Brighton mall, its very
untidy
- Brighton mall is appalling, paper everywhere especially
weekends
- Over-flowing rubbish bins
- General rubbish - not as bad as in streets
- General litter
- General rubbish
- Could be much cleaner around middle city especially KFC,
McDonalds area
- Heaps of rubbish around including in the gutters
- Gutters around shopping malls needs cleaning up
- Grubby people, should be fined. Cigarette packets, broken
bottles, cans
- Wrappers and stuff take-away wrappers milkshake
containers
- People not using the rubbish containers - don't seem to
be emptied often enough
- Fast food outlets (i.e.) KFC McDonalds rubbish and also
vomit and urine around the area of Square
- Notice extra litter on Friday nights - kicking bags of
rubbish open
- The rubbish on the main city streets
- The garden city image not being lived up to
- Fast food rubbish
- Food and drink wrapping and cans everywhere
- Broken glass in the city centre
- Fast food wrappers - KFC and McDonalds everywhere
- Rubbish round gutters
- More regular clean out of rubbish containers needed, once
a day isn't enough. Should be first thing in morning and
early evening - cash flow paper etc. This should be
emptied more often
- General rubbish
- Just general rubbish
- Rubbish I have noticed - McDonalds rubbish in gutters
- The amount of rubbish on the streets - fast foods i.e.
McDonalds
- It's not picked up
- Portrays poor image of the city that shines
- Careless disregard for environment - a reflection of
society's problems
- McDonalds and other fast food rubbish everywhere
- Rubbish strewn on the streets
- Seems to be a lot
- The general untidiness of the streets
- McDonalds rubbish
- People not putting rubbish into bins
- Fast food packaging
- McDonalds stuff. General paper rubbish, drink cups
- General litter
- People drop stuff and place up the road to place rubbish.
At accidents the glass isn't cleaned up I ride a bike
everyday and get glass in my tyres
- Rubbish bins too full and bags not collected
- Litter outside fast food places e.g. McDonalds on Colombo
and the Dog House
- Food wrappers being dropped
- Litter at weekends not enough bins or not cleared often
enough Bishopdale mall
- Food packaging
- Rubbish bins are often too full - need to be emptied more
often
- People that do it
- Same thing fish and chips bags rubbish lying around,
potato chip bags
- Mainly left food litter cans and bottles
- Just when it all collects up on a windy day and it's all
collected up in a big pile somewhere
- Just rubbish laying around, just people's laziness I
think
- Fast food wrappers
- Bits and pieces lying around - McDonalds
- Just rubbish
- Cans, ice-cream and chip papers on footpaths
- Always seems to be same nuisance rubbish around, KFC and
McDonalds boxes
- Litter - lolly wrappings, fast food wrappers
- Take-away food mess
- General untidy public
- Just general messy people
- Lack of rubbish bins
- Visible litter not being picked up
- The rubbish bins need to be emptied more often
- Dog mess on the footpath, overflowing rubbish bins,
- When you are going night clubbing and KFC and McDonalds
are open there's rubbish everywhere. No one uses the bins
and they're usually over full anyway. It's cleaner in
Avonhead than it is in Aranui
- New Brighton is absolutely disgusting - full of rubbish
- Empty rubbish (take-aways) containers
- Drop take-away containers, they don't use the bins -
should be a law against littering
- Used take-away bags, chewing gum, beer cans
- Rubbish lying around local block of shops on Papanui
Road, Sawyers Arms Road
- People not respecting the services not using litter bins
- Every Tuesday they have a carton collection. If not
collected the litter accumulates. (he was sure this was
the council doing this - but it sounds more like
commercial)
- Public throwing things down
- Untidy people - laziness in putting rubbish into bin
- The fact that people just drop their litter
- Chewing gum litter and smokes especially in the vicinity
of the Square
- Junk food containers that are just dropped
- Bits of paper and packets that people just throw down
- Empty broken beer bottles
- Particularly in some of the car park areas - Papanui
rubbish everywhere
- Papers and packets lying around
- High Street / Triangle Centre area, disgusted with litter
dirty and untidy
- Rubbish not put in bins properly - people taking their
own rubbish to shopping malls to use the bins and leaving
it in plastic bags at the side of bins
- Litter lying near bins general litter
- Rubbish in the city centre - bad for tourists
- General paper and mess
- Cashflow receipts
- People's laziness dropping litter
- New Brighton shops need a covered one like a mall - that
would cut back on the rubbish
- Don't want to shop in centres where rubbish is lying
about e.g. Linwood (Eastgate) and New Brighton Mall
- Fast food outlets create a lot of litter
- People who drop litter
- Drink bottles and cans tossed from cars on to median
strips
- New Brighton Mall is often untidy
- Just that it's there - it shouldn't be there
- Rubbish blowing around
- Just the mess it makes
- All the paper that's around, dog droppings and litter
from McDonalds and KFC
- Basically just rubbish
- The bins get overloaded sometimes especially after some
of the festivals, and the chewing gum on the pavement
- Cigarettes, chewing gum, drinking containers and general
litter
- Paper generally dropped and strewn around by people
- That it's there people use the receptacles available
- Over-flowing rubbish tins, litter laying around
- Not enough rubbish tins
- Restaurants storing food and boxes near their buildings
- Garbage (getting better)
- Amount of debris in shopping centre - kids leaving
wrappers on ground
- Papers, cans, food wrappers, especially weekends
- Fast food wrappers
- Cigarette butts, McDonalds wrappers, beer cans
- Rubbish lying around the road from the shops
- Rubbish around the picture theatre at Northlands
- The facilities are there for people to use but the people
are not using them - the laziness of people probably
- Empty drink cans, cigarette packets
- Fast food wrappers. KFC wrappers and McDonalds everything
like that
- Fish and chip papers, McDonalds papers, cigarettes
- Just the amount of rubbish there lying around
- Around the KFC and McDonalds full or overloaded bins.
Kids dumping the litter, its blown around the city
- Linwood shopping centre and centre of town - McDonalds
and KFC wrappers are shocking especially at night
- Lots of litter on Marine Parade and in Brighton. Brighton
is the pits
- All of the rubbish left out around the fast food places
at night on weekends
- Cigarette bits and pieces, chewing gum everywhere
- Rubbish in general
- Supermarket bags, fast food wrappers
- Papers blowing around
- Paper rubbish lying around
- People dropping rubbish
- Hate people throwing things around not using bins.
Chewing gum
- People throwing things away and also out of cars and then
the wind scatters them
- Aluminium cans. Paper in the gutters
- Take-away packets
- General overflowing rubbish tins
- Take-away bars rubbish
- McDonalds and KFC wrappers
- McDonalds wrappers bottles (broken glass) chewing gum
- Discarded food, chewing gum etc.
- Rubbish - fast food wrappers left lying around cigarette
butts
- The litter at Sumner shopping centre especially outside
the library
- People dropping rubbish
- Papers
- Paper mostly
- Bus ticket cigarettes
- Supermarket shopping bags blowing around and other paper
- Rubbish bags left and not attended to
- North of the Square, I think it is dreadful right where
the tourist hotels and shops are
- Cans in gutters
- Litter makes things not attractive to visitors. The city
should look pristine
- Doggie dunnits should be more controlled. People should
take their bags with them
- The rubbish in the city centre shopping area is very off
putting
- People who throw rubbish on the ground footpaths and out
of cars
- The big mess around transfer stations especially after
the week-ends
- Rubbish - smokers - butts left
- Food wrappings left lying around
- Fast food wrappers etc. cans
- People dropping stuff within sight of rubbish bin
- Compared with overseas cities we live in a very dirty
city - cans, chewing gum papers and dog litter
- Rubbish in gutter
- Kids not having a sense of responsibility with litter and
adults too
- Same as above
- Fast food wrappers
- Papers and rubbish lying and rubbish from take-away food
- Bins should be emptied more often and more bins
- Cans and papers and overloaded bins - need to be emptied
far more regularly
- Tagging - general uncleanliness of the street - chewing
gum on pavements
- People throwing litter onto street
- Fast food remains bottles beer cans
- Chewing gum Colombo/High Street area - take-away food
rubbish lying about the street
- People are generally scruffy and don't use the bins
- Things have improved but they could be even better. It
should be squeaky clean
- People discarding and tossing away rubbish and expecting
other people to clear it up
- Blemishes the city, causes flooding and gives unnecessary
work to the council
- Dropping cans, food containers left
- Cans papers cartons packets left lying
- After weekends food containers are piled up on the
streets
- Paper chip packets cans cigarettes dog litter etc.
- They say Christchurch is a clean city but when you see
the litter it isn't as clean as it's made out to be
- Just people not taking responsibility for their litter -
lack of rubbish bins
- People that just litter rather than put in rubbish bins
- General rubbish paper and food dropped by people
- People littering from cars
- Cigarette packets, take-away food containers left lying
around
- General rubbish
- Average litter. Don't use them
- The tiles in the Square are so badly stained from the
food stalls
- Lack of responsibility for rubbish dropping. Rubbish from
fast food outlets
- Rubbish lying around
- Crumpled food wrappers
- Cashel mall is a nightmare - McDonalds rubbish
- The side alleyway at Eastgate is always full of rubbish
and cartons and papers etc. Its just an alleyway but some
one should keep it clean, its a disgrace
- Blatant littering; people dropping rubbish with disregard
to others
- Just general paper litter really
- They throw things around a bit - like lolly papers
- Paper rubbish and dropped food
- General litter
- People who put bags of rubbish (their own) in council
bins around shopping centres
- Take-away food containers
- Used condoms, general litter
- Instant food packets, take away container and plastic
drink bottles
- People throwing away rubbish
- Brighton mall is horrific, rubbish lying everywhere,
graffiti etc. (I work in the mall)
- The same stuff - litter people toss
- People don't put things in the bins
- Depends on the time of day, usually quite awful by night
time, especially outside McDonalds and places like that
- Take-aways containers everywhere at night time
- Paper rubbish - should be swept more
- General rubbish
- Seeing general litter
- Graffiti, paper rubbish, paper in gutters
- McDonalds wrappers left in piles outside cars. Broken
glass at night - central city. Vomit in door ways -
central city
- People just drop rubbish and not put in bins
- Only a little litter doesn't really bother me - no
- People don't use litter bins
- General litter around the Square area
- Wrapping from ice blocks and stuff
- Dog poo chewing gum spitting general rubbish, lolly
papers and what not
- In the Square - untidiness and just litter everywhere
- Overflowing rubbish containers, they are not emptied
often enough
- Wherever you go people scatter plastic and paper
wrappings etc. Some commercial people are careless.
Delivery people, truck drivers etc.
- Over weekend malls get a little messy
- Papers, cans: not picked up enough
- Paper rubbish - fast food packages
- Food litter
- Just litter, I don't know - just litter
- KFC and McDonalds wrappings in town
- Just the mess people make when they're drunk, outside KFC
- Basically people just throwing their rubbish down when
they could easily put it in a rubbish bin
- Food litter
- The amount of litter around the food outlets
- Not enough rubbish bins perhaps in strategic locations
outside shops where there are lots of wrappers. In Los
Angeles and San Diego they have them plus lots of
containers filled with sand where people can stamp out
their cigarettes, as a consequence the streets are very
very clean there
- Lots of cigarette butts, take away food wrappers
- Fast food wrappers thrown from cars, chewing gum on
pavements
- Just trash in gutters, trash cans spilling over full
- Cathedral Square - bottles and cans
- A lot everywhere, fast food wrappers, drink cans
- Plastic - bottles food wrappers
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