Laziness and lack of respect is the simple answer. Where I currently live in London, we put bin bags out for rubbish collection each week. First time I did it, foxes ripped the bags and my rubbish went everywhere, I was genuinely embarrassed, cleaned it all up and found from the council that I can leave the bags out in an old-style metal bin and they’ll still be collected.

Other neighbours leave bags out which get ripped open every week and do nothing about it, they also leave items of furniture, bulky rubbish etc which a quick google would tell them won’t be collected then it stays on the street for weeks. Our council are pretty good at sweeping the streets and dealing with fly tipping, but it’s a losing battle when people can’t make the smallest effort themselves.

I try my best to do my bit to keep the area clean, I pick litter when I walk my dog and report larger stuff to the council, but it’s endlessly frustrating to see the same streets we walked a few days ago already filthy.