Due to the fact that I have changed jobs and now commute on both train and Dart on a daily basis, it has only taken me 3 days to get really annoyed by the “Free Sheet litter” that is simply thrown around on both Dart and Commuter trains in the Greater Dublin Area. The free sheet is simply that, free and it’s designed to be small and concise in order for your train journey pass more quickly. Obviously its also designed to generate more advertising revenue for the Newspapers that issue them (and more luck to them).

 

Due to the fact that they are free they are available to everyone who wants one, I don’t take one as I rather reading a book, I cannot see  why should people insist on leaving them on the train, so that others can read them?. To me it would appear that these people are lazy and just could’nt be arsed is simply taking the paper with them and sticking it in a bin, we teach our children not to litter, so why don’t we teach ourselves not to litter. I  appreciate that not all conduct them selves in this manner but clearly enough of people do as if you travel on these modes of transport the evidence is everywhere.

 

So if you get a “free sheet “ for feck sake don’t leave on the train as nobody else wants to read it , bring it home or simply bin it. Littering is your responsibility not anyone else’s.

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This morning I decided to take the bus from one side of the city to the other, and in typical culchie manner ended up wandering aimless in the city centre, what I did notice was however the number of people handing out the freesheets, christ I thought the "Big Issue" people were fierce, these people are unrelenting in their pursuit of you. I saw one lady taking the newspaper and then immediately disgarding it in a bin 5 feet away. I think its time to get rid of the freesheets, its tabloid shite anyway, an to those feckers who insist on leaving bundles of the feckin thing at corners "think, wind does blow paper away".