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Elastic Bands on the pavement.

Has anybody noticed the elastic bands everywhere!

Nicholas Beard ● 5d15 Comments

Please don't complain! I love them. I use them for all of my package closure needs. I tried to buy some at WH Smiths but have found any purchased rubber bands to be vastly inferior. I love picking them up, it's like finding a little treasure.

Genevieve Robson ● 1d

Philippa, the pandemic caused some changes to our lives, for instance "working from home" became popular.To feel free to become litterbugs was not one of them.

Denis I. Fox ● 1d

Don't you think that that was deleted by the pandemic?

Philippa Bond ● 1d

Why should anybody be told not to litter? It's common sense.

Brian Coyle ● 2d

Oh, they haven't started that again have they? Posties used to do it a lot. You must complain!! Then they'll stop doing it.  It's ridiculous when all they have to do is pop them in their pocket. We're lucky as we have a brilliant postie who never does it

Juliet Hogg ● 2d

I agree I don't understand why Posties weren't/haven't been told not to litter just like everybody else.

Philippa Bond ● 3d

"Most rubber bands are manufactured out of natural rubber"It dissolves away quite quickly I think.If the are proper rubber bands tha is, and not fossil fuel derived plastic ones.

Paul James ● 4d

I too reuse them for all sorts of things.  They are useful extra to keep closed packets which often have sticky tape closures that just aren't good enough.

Philippa Bond ● 4d

My past postie used to leave some in my porch which is better than leaving them on the street, i was happy to use or dispose of them some were larger ones probably used around small parcels.

Janice Evans ● 5d

"It never ceases to amaze me why Post Office management have never implemented any rule to encourage the moronic posties from littering."Perhaps that is the problem - they should have discouraged them, not encouraged them.

Richard Greenhough ● 5d

A few years ago Royal Mail issued red elastic bands so that they could be readily identified if discarded. That idea seemed to be abandoned and now it is the standard colourless band that they use. Too many posties don't seem willing to take them back to the depot after each round.

Richard Greenhough ● 5d

I haven't bought elastic bands for years. If I see one on the pavement I pick it up. I preferred it when they were using red ones though. With no science whatsoever to back me up I always thought they were less likely to be mistaken for worms by birds and other critters.

Bruce Hammal ● 5d

It never ceases to amaze me why Post Office management have never implemented any rule to encourage the moronic posties from littering. Surely it’s not to much to tell posties that littering is illegal and they should take all the rubber bands back to the depot for re-use rather than toss them on the ground.

Steve Taylor ● 5d

I haven't seen as many.  This definitely used to be Posties doing this but then in the more recent past there was also a craze where the very very young on scooters on the pavement picked them up and collected them by hanging them on their scooters.  We, and our parents and grandparents always used to make them into rubber band balls and would then have them to reuse when wanted and needed.On the street they are a horrible and unnecessary and possibly dangerous example of a careless and uncaring throw-away society.

Philippa Bond ● 5d

Postmen or Women dropping them during the rounds.

Brian Green ● 5d