Meet the team that will crack down on littering and flytipping in Reading<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n Neighbours generally support the approach and consider littering to be a serious issue.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n A woman from Reading, who gave her view while waiting for a bus in St Mary’s Butts, said: “It really is quite bad, isn’t it?\n<\/p>\n
\n “I don’t think people should be doing any of those two things, it makes the place untidy.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They should take example after the Asian countries, like Japan, for example.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They have a nice, clean environment, don’t they?\n<\/p>\n
\n “People shouldn’t be littering the place, it just gives a bad impression.”\n<\/p>\n
\n When asked whether more enforcement and fines would help, the woman replied: “Probably, some people park in a place where they shouldn’t be parking, you would be fined.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If it’s a great big fine, it’ll probably help.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A man who lived near the town centre agreed, along with two separate bystanders from Earley.\n<\/p>\n
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Councillor Karen Rowland (Labour, Abbey), Will Russell, and the Kingdom enforcement team in Reading town centre.(Image: James Aldridge, Local Democracy Reporting Service)\n<\/p>\n
\n Reacting to the news on Facebook, Vivienne Ballico said: “I’m forever picking litter around where I live. Having a secondary school nearby doesn’t help, as I’m forever picking up cans of Red Bull and sweet wrappers.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Stephen Belgrave argued careless litter disposal can be tackled by instilling pride in the town.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “Littering is a mindset! It would be better tackled with a community spirit and pride in where you live. I fear that boat has long since sailed, though.\n<\/p>\n
\n “When I was young, I was taught not to drop litter, and it has stayed with me!\n<\/p>\n
\n “I then taught my children not to drop litter, and they don\u2019t generally drop litter.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The number of times I see people driving along and just throwing their fast food rubbish out of a moving car is shocking. It\u2019s cheaper to tackle the mindset than to tackle the litter.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Mandy Price simply said: “A few more bins about would help.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Those caught could face a maximum fine of \u00a3500 for littering and graffiti is \u00a3500 (up from \u00a380), \u00a31,000 for fly-tipping (up from \u00a3400), and \u00a3600 for the incorrect disposal of household waste (from \u00a3400).\n<\/p>\n
\n Anger over cigarettes butts littered all over Reading town centre<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n The enforcement arrangement with Kingdom went live yesterday, (Monday, September 15).\n<\/p>\n
\n The team will be made up of five members, who have already been told about problem areas by the council’s existing enforcement team.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, the council has argued its employees are stretched, as they also have to take care of recycling, household and commercial waste management and environmental offences.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The Kingdom team have bodycams used when handing out fines.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The issues have long been present in Reading, with littering present in the town centre and bottle banks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}