What on earth happened to taking your litter home with you? Even in urban areas we now seem to be in this situation where people live litter all over the place. It's just someone elses problem.

I don't leave litter if there's not a bin. It's not rocket science. But clearly this is now way beyond an ever increasing number of people... Which is extremely depressing.

People just don't care for the environment!
This comes down to Education that should start at home and school.
Whilst forest schools are good at teaching about conserving our environment, it pretty much stops when you leave primary school. Environment conservation and outdoor education should go on throughout all secondry school education with a compulsory leaving cert/ GCSE at the end, with more in the field outdoor education useing adventurous activities and nature studies.

Disposable BBQs, along with other unesasary packaging should be banned and have a law in place to stop the manufacture of so much rubbish!

I agree that children of all ages should be educated about this but obvuously so do a lot of adults too sadly. Bring back public service announcements informing both on matters such as this. Remember the countryside code ads back in the 70's? Where the farmer starts jumping up and down and going all red in the face?

I agree with you all, people whould deal with their rubbish (and dog muck!) properly I've never understood why people hang dog poo bags in trees like Christmas decorations. I have to say though that LDNPA are sometimes their own worst enemy though. they encourage vast numbers of people to the area, charge exorbitant Car Parking fees (with hefty fines for transgressors!) and now charge for many toilets too. People tend to assume they're paying for the rubbish to be taken away. National Park wants it both ways - lots of people coming in to fund them, but don't want to deal with the (sadly inevitable)result.

Many years ago we followed a family off the fells by picking up the sweet wrappers they were chucking down as the went. We gained on them when they reached the car park. They didn't seem very pleased that we'd collected up all their papers and handed them back to them.

This is definitely a issue for all but all are not the culprits. I as a lover of the Lake District, walking my dog there and consuming goods wrapped in disposable wrapping would never think of hanging a poo bag in the trees or leaving litter anywhere. As in many other areas I hope the issue can be addressed suitably but without the need to ban dogs which always seems to be the knee jerk reaction or people for that matter. Education not the iron fist.

Right so you have wardens who come and check if visitors have paid for the remote rural carparks, where there are no bins. However it is too remote for a refuge collection!
If there is a charged carpark it would be normal to assume that there would be a rubbish collection.
In urban areas there are bins in the carparks as they are visited by wardens!!

I work on a nature reserve here 'dahn saff' and I get exactly the same problem, but I do have bins by every car park. Selfish idiots occur worldwide; I wish there was an answer.

Take your rubbish &/or your dogs#!t home. I cycle, however I always end up taking more rubbish home than I create. If you have a car, put rubbish in a bin or take it with you. After all you have a lot more space than myself for taking it home. Not even going to start on people hanging bags of s#!t on trees. What happens when their dog s#!ts in their garden?????

I see it every day? They throw it out of the car window?

I think there should be patrols and these would be paid for with revenue from fines. But I don't think it will happen unfortunately.

Wardens, heavy fines, especially if caught repeatedly then imprisonment Why not? It would create jobs.....

I think £7 to park for a days walking is excessive and then to charge additionally to use the loo is an outrage!
If they are going to charge these ridiculous prices they should at least be a bit more transparent about exactly what we are getting for our money.

Why is £7 for parking all day excessive?

National Park budgets are been axed all the time.

Any revenue helps maintain the parks and this allows you to enjoy them, (litter picking, path maintenance, the list goes on).

Given the price of TV, a cup of cafe tea etc, its cheep!

Alternativly, volunteer to help and get free parking ;)