Anchor Pub and rubbish

I walk past the Anchor Pub frequently early morning . I'm absolutely shocked and saddened by how much plastic, broken glass and drinking glasses are just dumped or left out by the pub.
The drinks are bought and then walked to the water front where they are consumed When finished , they are just left on the low wall over looking the river.
It appears everything is left out over night . The slightest breeze pushes the plastic into the river or onto the walkway . Glasses end up in the river as well or smash when they drop off the wall onto the walkway..
I've often wondered why the pub just doesn't go and collect the debris and glasses at closing time. It does seem that they are not worried about the amount of plastic and glass ending up in he river. Surely like us all , they should be more environmentally aware.
On a business note they must lose so many pint glasses , if they collected them their running costs would be lower .
I've never seen a pub managed like this . I live near a pub and it's a busy one but I've never seen anything left out over night.
The Anchor is an extremely busy one and it should take responsibility for all the glass and plastic it leaves outside overnight .
Southwark needs to get involved re the licencing .
There is a street cleaner who sweeps along this stretch and I must say he does a fantastic job in cleaning up. Well done to him .

Used to go to the Anchor forty years ago. They had a wizened man collect glasses..a Potman..seems the Anchor should pay out for another one! Shame on them if they don't , the river was a dumping ground years ago let's hope it stops now.

This sort of thing is getting worse by the week in Southwark. Walk down Borough High street late at night and you will find the same thing. The early hours of Sat and Sun morn look like the Wild West. Same for outside the Elephant and castle pub/club. I used to love Sun morn walks. No longer. I agree the street cleaners do a great job around 8/9 am, cleaning up the debris. The pubs do not give a damn.

The trash on our streets upsets me - I'm becoming less tolerant of it and the people who create it. I will now pick up a can or bottle if I can, even if it makes me look like a lush as I carry it to the nearest bin. I recently (very politely) asked a chap who dumped his coffee cup on the wall to St George the Martyr if he would please put it in the bin (about 2 metres away) and got called a 'self righteous *"nt' for my trouble. My riposte was to tell him that at least *"nts are useful, whereas an unpleasant slob like him was just a waste of space. Yes, I know it wasn't clever of me - I fully expected a punch to knock me off my high horse. I did regret rising to the bait but it was a measure of how much the state of our streets is getting to me!

spartacus wrote:

The trash on our streets upsets me - I'm becoming less tolerant of it and the people who create it. I will now pick up a can or bottle if I can, even if it makes me look like a lush as I carry it to the nearest bin. I recently (very politely) asked a chap who dumped his coffee cup on the wall to St George the Martyr if he would please put it in the bin (about 2 metres away) and got called a 'self righteous *"nt' for my trouble. My riposte was to tell him that at least *"nts are useful, whereas an unpleasant slob like him was just a waste of space. Yes, I know it wasn't clever of me - I fully expected a punch to knock me off my high horse. I did regret rising to the bait but it was a measure of how much the state of our streets is getting to me!

Carry on picking up (other people's) litter, Spartacus! I do the same. I aim to pick up at least one piece of litter a day and dispose of it properly. I'm hardly in the first flush of youth so I don't challenge those who create litter but my "one a day" (and sometimes more) makes me feel less angry about the amount of rubbish in our city.