Eyesore of takeaway litter outside fast-food shop (From Echo)
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Eyesore of takeaway litter outside fast-food shop
12:00pm Saturday 15th September 2012 in News
The scene outside Ali Babas Kebabs, in London Road, Southend
LATE-NIGHT revellers have been dumping rubbish outside a Southend kebab shop.
The unsightly mess was left outside Ali Babas Kebabs, in London Road, following a busy Friday night.
The picture was taken at about 8am the following morning by a reader who was disgusted by the pile of fast food cartons.
John Clarke, from Leigh , saw the rubbish while travelling into town for breakfast.
He said: “On Saturday morning all the shoppers come in to town and they are greeted with a pile of fast food rubbish like that from late-night drinkers.
“This sort of thing could also attract rats. It’s annoying local ratepayers pay to have this cleaned. It should be down to the kebab shop.
“McDonald’s clear theirs, you see their street cleaners litter picking outside.”
The Echo showed Ali Keskin, owner of the shop, a picture of the rubbish. He said: “I can’t leave the front of my business like that, it’s no good for me. “Yes, Friday and Saturday night, we get like that because it’s busy, but when we finish we clean everywhere.” He said he cleans up at about 5am.
Steven Crowther, Southend Council’s group manager for waste and environmental care, said: “This location is part of our regular seven-days-a-week cleansing schedule.
“Normally it is cleared quite early in the morning, as the cleansing crews work through the seafront, High Street and London Road areas as first priority. We will liaise with the premises to discuss arrangements for clearance of litter generated by their business.
“This would be our first step.”
He said if this did not prove fruitful there was further action the council could take.
He added: “Our procedures are that if a business should fail to cooperate with such an approach, and persistent littering continued, we would consider legal action.
“This would involve us gathering further evidence of the alleged offence, and we could then potentially apply for a Street Litter Clearance Notice to be served.”
Comments(32)
Alec Cikes
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12:47pm Sat 15 Sep 12
Vermin will run rife around this rubbish...
Definitely bad for business!
One can only hope that he doesn't keep his kitchen in the same state!
Born & bread
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12:49pm Sat 15 Sep 12
Ed in
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1:02pm Sat 15 Sep 12
Nebs
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1:09pm Sat 15 Sep 12
EssexPerson
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1:46pm Sat 15 Sep 12
Ed in wrote:Couldn't agree more, what makes it worse is that there's even a freaking bin right there in the picture!
Yes sure Mr Keskin should have cleared up, but more importantly the customers should have disposed of their rubbish in a responsible manner instead of just dropping it.
Alec Cikes
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1:58pm Sat 15 Sep 12
Scum bags who throw their rubbish on the ground would think twice about not throwing stuff in the waste bin if it were to hurt their pockets!
EssexBoy1956
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2:25pm Sat 15 Sep 12
bennykill
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2:32pm Sat 15 Sep 12
emcee
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3:04pm Sat 15 Sep 12
However, it will be a lot easier to place zero tolerance responsibility on the fast food outlets to ensure cleaner streets within a certain distance from their shop. For a start it will need less patrols. In fact, a lot of evidence can be gathered during their "seven-days-a-week cleansing schedule". It would, also, be more straight forward to issue fines to a business. For a start, they cannot run away. These fines should also be substantial to deter any offences occurring by ensuring that staff from these outlets do regular litter patrols in their vicinity.
DogsMessInLeigh
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3:51pm Sat 15 Sep 12
firedog
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5:08pm Sat 15 Sep 12
rude boy
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5:54pm Sat 15 Sep 12
Brunning999
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6:18pm Sat 15 Sep 12
Born & bread wrote:That is a good comment but I must add we also have many Ali Baba'a also.
It looks like the mess of 40 thieves. There are a few in our town.
Nebs
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6:20pm Sat 15 Sep 12
emcee wrote:Easier and more straightforward, but they are not the ones dropping the litter. I could save all my fish and chip wrappers for a year, and then go and drop them outside a random chippy. The punishment should fit the crime, and the shop owners have not committed any crime. I don't see why they should pay. Catch the litterbugs and give them a fine, or better still give them a day in a yellow tracksuit picking up litter, they are the anti social ones and not the shop owners.
Trying to enforce people not to drop litter, by the use of litter personnel to impose fines, will only be greeted with two fingers and a not so polite "go away", especially at night.
However, it will be a lot easier to place zero tolerance responsibility on the fast food outlets to ensure cleaner streets within a certain distance from their shop. For a start it will need less patrols. In fact, a lot of evidence can be gathered during their "seven-days-a-week cleansing schedule". It would, also, be more straight forward to issue fines to a business. For a start, they cannot run away. These fines should also be substantial to deter any offences occurring by ensuring that staff from these outlets do regular litter patrols in their vicinity.
EssexBoy1956
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8:35pm Sat 15 Sep 12
rude boy wrote:Err, did anyone understand this?
its not really his fault people shud put there rubbish in the bins provided! a bit like my job wear i work people poo in chute rooms n pee in there so is that my fault! and i have been passed there at 5 b4 and the owner has been out there cleaning it up so has corys been there 2, so as some 1 just said it cud be a drunk kicked the bin over, and that 1 time was a 1 off
muffindamule
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8:39pm Sat 15 Sep 12
EssexBoy1956 wrote:I understood enough not to want to apply for a job at his place of work. ;-)
rude boy wrote:Err, did anyone understand this?
its not really his fault people shud put there rubbish in the bins provided! a bit like my job wear i work people poo in chute rooms n pee in there so is that my fault! and i have been passed there at 5 b4 and the owner has been out there cleaning it up so has corys been there 2, so as some 1 just said it cud be a drunk kicked the bin over, and that 1 time was a 1 off
DogsMessInLeigh
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11:39pm Sat 15 Sep 12
bennykill wrote:yeah right.. so someone kicked the bin over...then picked it back up and placed it back by the front of the shop....and you go there at 6-7am on Saturday and Sunday Mornings do you..?
the odds are a drunk idiot emptied the bin outside all over the floor. i have never seen it that messy the next day. the shop do clean up and most people use the bins provided
APR
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11:03am Sun 16 Sep 12
Ed in wrote:You must be joking.....Expect people to clear up their own rubbish ?, you must be living on another planet.
Yes sure Mr Keskin should have cleared up, but more importantly the customers should have disposed of their rubbish in a responsible manner instead of just dropping it.
I've seen it many times. A car stops in a car park, 10minutes later the windows open, and the rubbish is thrown to the ground. The car then drives off.
Then again, I have also seen birds fly into rubbish bins, pull out bags and empty the contents onto the ground.
pendulum
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11:33am Sun 16 Sep 12
Basildon.lad.21
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3:54pm Sun 16 Sep 12
I believe we pay council tax for things like this. It be nice to see a street cleaner on the road clearing up that mess.
Keptquiettillnow
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4:21pm Sun 16 Sep 12
DogsMessInLeigh
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10:36pm Sun 16 Sep 12
Keptquiettillnow wrote:Because......everyon
Why only use this one fast food shop as an example? I am sure that scene is replicated outside any fast food shop on a Sunday morning. Oh not to forget Mcdougles KFC Burger Queen etc etc etc
e goes there to get a kebab, pizza, burger. chips etc at 2-4am...then stand outside and dump the wrappers and get in a cab and bugger off home, KFC and the like have been closed much earlier in the evening...however take a look down southchurch road near to the high street as theres a couple of chicken and Kebab joints there too, yeah lets now blame it on the birds for picking all that out of the CLOSED wheely bin, some responsibility should be down to the shop owner..after all he dished it all out...and don't McDs have someone clean up..?
Nebs
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11:10pm Sun 16 Sep 12
DogsMessInLeigh wrote:Why is the shop owner responsible? They are no more responsible than a car dealer who sells a car to a motorist who then runs someone down.
Keptquiettillnow wrote:Because......everyon
Why only use this one fast food shop as an example? I am sure that scene is replicated outside any fast food shop on a Sunday morning. Oh not to forget Mcdougles KFC Burger Queen etc etc etc
e goes there to get a kebab, pizza, burger. chips etc at 2-4am...then stand outside and dump the wrappers and get in a cab and bugger off home, KFC and the like have been closed much earlier in the evening...however take a look down southchurch road near to the high street as theres a couple of chicken and Kebab joints there too, yeah lets now blame it on the birds for picking all that out of the CLOSED wheely bin, some responsibility should be down to the shop owner..after all he dished it all out...and don't McDs have someone clean up..?
boom
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11:23pm Sun 16 Sep 12
AndyBSG
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9:19am Mon 17 Sep 12
Nebs wrote:This.
The council have missed a trick here. Introduce a £50 fine for littering, and put a few patrols outside shops like this, and along the beach, and the revenue you raise should be enough to enable you to reduce council tax by half.
When they're slapped with a hefty fine the dirtbags who couldn't be bothered to walk the 2 yards to the big green bin shown in the picture will soon learn their lesson.
Audioman
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4:27pm Mon 17 Sep 12
Just like the dirty sea front.
rude boy
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8:15pm Mon 17 Sep 12
rude boy
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8:23pm Mon 17 Sep 12
DogsMessInLeigh
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11:08pm Mon 17 Sep 12
Nebs wrote:So why do McDonalds send staff out to litter pick..?
DogsMessInLeigh wrote:Why is the shop owner responsible? They are no more responsible than a car dealer who sells a car to a motorist who then runs someone down.
Keptquiettillnow wrote:Because......everyon
Why only use this one fast food shop as an example? I am sure that scene is replicated outside any fast food shop on a Sunday morning. Oh not to forget Mcdougles KFC Burger Queen etc etc etc
e goes there to get a kebab, pizza, burger. chips etc at 2-4am...then stand outside and dump the wrappers and get in a cab and bugger off home, KFC and the like have been closed much earlier in the evening...however take a look down southchurch road near to the high street as theres a couple of chicken and Kebab joints there too, yeah lets now blame it on the birds for picking all that out of the CLOSED wheely bin, some responsibility should be down to the shop owner..after all he dished it all out...and don't McDs have someone clean up..?
If you ran a food business in a prominent position would you make an effort to keep it clean and tidy..?
i call not making sure its always in order ie failing to make an effort to clean up...irresponsible, so if they have a decent head on their shoulders they would be responsible....so yes...they should be responsible.
Thanks.
r6keith
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3:16pm Tue 18 Sep 12
DogsMessInLeigh
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9:41pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Rich~Carol says...
12:26pm Sat 15 Sep 12