I walk between Collgate Cescent and Glossop Road on my way to work and think how lucky I am not to live on Brunswick Street; it's so littered.
The gutters are filled with dog-ends, pop bottles and red rubber bands.
Its there a dirtier street in Sheffield.
Who is chucking these bands onto the street?

Originally posted by mrchinnery
I walk between Collgate Cescent and Glossop Road on my way to work and think how lucky I am not to live on Brunswick Street; it's so littered.
The gutters are filled with dog-ends, pop bottles and red rubber bands.
Its there a dirtier street in Sheffield.
Who is chucking these bands onto the street?
the answer to the rubber band question!
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39034&highlight=red+rubber+bands

Thanks for the info.
So it's the dirty post office staff.
A shining example of commercial waste being dumped in a residential street.

Cemetery Avenue, going up from Cafe Rouge on Ecclesall Road is filthy. There's about 20 years of leaf mould which has now formed banks of soil/mud against the kerbs and added to this is all the litter, smashed glass and dog muck. Shoreham Street's got pretty bad lately - I had to walk down there a few weeks ago and noticed how scruffy it was looking, contents of wheelie bins scattered around, and the old Arnold Laver yard was a tip.

But Sheffield seems generally clean to me, especially compared to Liverpool's streets which are like one big open plan litter bin.

Perhaps not quite as bad, but Dyke Vale Road gets quite bad, because people like to put their bins out several days too early (as someone did this week), that are over-flowing so the lid doesn't shut, with dirty nappies hanging out so you've got one in your face as you walk past, a wheel that falls off into the layby which could damage cars, that eventually falls over (onto the grass, which is not the worse thing that could happen), so rubbish is all over the grass, that gets spread by the stray dogs, attracts rats and ends up all along that area of the road.

There's a certain row of houses that do this quite often, and it's disgusting. We called up StreetForce after the bin men, who came Friday, didn't collect it because it had fallen over and the rubbish had fallen out, who passed us onto Onyx, who passed us onto another department, who said nothing could happen until the men came back at 4.30 and reported it. They told us that dirty nappies should be tied up in black bags - why on earth were they telling us> that?! Regarding the rats, they told us that was down to environmental health. A little later and we called StreetForce back up who said they would come and get rid of it. It hadn't been collected by the evening. I'm not sure if it's still there, because I've been out all day.

Sorry for the rant!