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Environment

Posted by: david

22nd Feb 2012 07:20pm

do you think people who have garage sales and put posters and cardboard boxes on corners and posts be fined for littering.if they took this litter away after the sale,there would not be a problem.but i have seen the signs and boxes still there after 2 weeks.it would be easy enough to find the culprit as there address is on the boxes

Comments 34

Sil sil
  • 16th Apr 2014 10:53am

Really? We see heaps of garage sales in our area but the signs are always removed, I presume from the people having the garage sale. I hope people who advertise for missing pets & working from home posters do the same!

madie-tay
  • 14th Apr 2014 11:53pm

Yea I agree they should be fined for littering for leaving there signs up as well as people that put around posters about missing animals and just leave them up I till some one desides to deck them, if they have enough time to go around and put them every where they could at least go and take them down when they are finished.

Anonymous
  • 1st Apr 2014 03:56pm

Asking for permission from council so they (council) know that the signs are in place, then the council could be fined after allotted time was up and sign was still in place.

jjdrer
  • 3rd Apr 2014 08:14am

Dan, I think you mean that the council should fine the person that put them up

Anonymous
  • 1st Apr 2014 03:56pm

Asking for permission from council so they (council) know that the signs are in place, then the council could be fined after allotted time was up and sign was still in place.

Anonymous
  • 27th Mar 2014 07:39pm

I think that if they don't take them away they should be fined. It is unfair how our environment has to pay the price of peoples stupidity

Anonymous
  • 4th Mar 2014 11:22am

i have no problem with people putting up signs or flyers for a garage sale but i think that they are then responsible for what happens to those signs, which means it is up to them to collect all publicly displayed signs after the sale!

s
  • 2nd Mar 2014 04:44pm

I have seen posters on poles for garage sales not weeks later but on a few occasions months later !!!!!
I agree the council should do something about it.

Clint Marchant
  • 26th Feb 2014 05:22pm

I used to love going to garage sales, the signs should be clearly labled with an address, to make life easier and displayed for 1 or 2 days max, if the sign is left out longer than that then sure they should be fined for littering as 9 times out of 10 the garage sale is only on the weekend

smiley
  • 18th Feb 2014 10:45pm

look up in the online white pages who lives at that address all you have to do is call to a neighbours and ask what is the surname of the people who live at such an address, then ring and tell them that they forgot to take the garage signs down and that you may have to report the litter left if its not removed

Anonymous
  • 10th Feb 2014 01:02pm

I would say that garage sales are good for removing unwanted stuff from every household. However, garage sales need to be monitored carefully by city councils for littering and if there is a tendency for culprit to cause more crimes based on the information shown on posters and boxes, then it would better to apply fines to houselholds who neglect to remove those posters and boxes within 1 day after doing a garage sales.

jjdrer
  • 27th Jan 2014 02:34pm

There is one Garage Sale sign that has been on a street corner pole for several weeks but in a fairly isolated area and I only ever go past there at night. There is no address on it just "Garage Sale"----and an "arrow" on it. As there is a few undesirables who sometimes hang around that strip of road, there is no houses next to it and plenty of thick bushes near it I am not stopping for my safety or that of my little passengers. If there was an address on it I would report it to the Police. Because there isn't an address the council didn't bother either.

jjdrer
  • 29th Aug 2013 06:43pm

Yes they should defintiely be fined if they do not take them down - and dispose of them responsibly. Recently I saw one that had been up for nearly 4 weeks tied to a street pole on a main road and was falling apart. However it didn't have an address on it. It had "garage sale" and an arrow on it. They probably had some on side streets leading to sale location, removed or not, I don't know.

Sidonie
  • 3rd Apr 2014 01:03am
Yes they should defintiely be fined if they do not take them down - and dispose of them responsibly. Recently I saw one that had been up for nearly 4 weeks tied to a street pole on a main road and...

One thing that is common is wrapping flyers around telephone poles. It doesn't seem to have caught on in my area, We have community notice boards and people stick to them.

frannymanny
  • 20th Mar 2013 10:50pm

I think that if there is litter anywhere at all and it can be removed and binned safely we should all so our bit. If I am not going to pick up the plastic bag blowing along the footpath then who else do I expect to do it?
Moving a sign might be a bit difficult, especially if it is formly nailed on so we could at least tell the shire, repeate4dly if it doesnt work the forst time.

jules06
  • 6th Oct 2012 06:51pm

i havent seen a problem with littered boxes. we have a lot of garage sales advertised on boxes locally and it seems people do pick them up, my sister keeps her same signs on boxes for every garage sale she has,

robertjac
  • 5th Oct 2012 11:44pm

I think we should find the culprits and give them ex amount of comunity work,after they had to clean up there own mes first.

Anonymous
  • 25th Apr 2012 06:43pm

however i do not feel that people should be fined for leaving their sign up. Im pretty sure given a day or two they would take them down after people keep knocking on their door for a garage sale that is no longer in existance

Anonymous
  • 25th Apr 2012 06:42pm

I definately feel that is the persons responsibility to take down the signs once the garage sale is over, but I can not understand why you would leave a sign up as what has been said it is easy to find the culprit as there address remains advertised. I think garage sales are an excellent idea providing people are responsible whilst having one

Anonymous
  • 24th Apr 2012 08:50am

I totally agree with you on this one, totally drive me nuts having to clean up after someone eles....

faerydoc
  • 20th Mar 2012 09:56am

I agree with you completely - if you want to put up signs for your garage sale, go ahead and do so, but be responsible and remove them when the sale is over. I agree - they should be fined if not removed within a week.

bettythrelfo
  • 21st Jan 2014 05:07pm
I agree with you completely - if you want to put up signs for your garage sale, go ahead and do so, but be responsible and remove them when the sale is over. I agree - they should be fined if not...

Yes I agree if you are going to put signs up to tell people, and you make sales, or whether you do not, the least you can do is to go and take the signs away. Have often seen them on the sides of roads, but when driving one cannot just stop and jump out to pick up. I agree it is a form of litter and they should have to pay a fine as well., then maybe we would not have so much danger with fires, with paper and cardboard laying around sometimes...

youi
  • 20th Apr 2012 08:53pm
I agree with you completely - if you want to put up signs for your garage sale, go ahead and do so, but be responsible and remove them when the sale is over. I agree - they should be fined if not...

Agree with you completely and as I hope to be having one soon I will make sure they are removed within 3 days after sale.

david
  • 10th Apr 2012 04:16pm
.... and the same thing applies to sign for lost pets. Some I have seen are illegible yet the "poster put-er" has not removed them.

agree completely.

wojo12
  • 10th Apr 2012 06:33am
sharon,well said.if we all had this attitude we would have much less litter blowing around.i don't know if people are just lazy or forget.thanks

.... and the same thing applies to sign for lost pets. Some I have seen are illegible yet the "poster put-er" has not removed them.

david
  • 20th Mar 2012 12:05pm
I agree with you completely - if you want to put up signs for your garage sale, go ahead and do so, but be responsible and remove them when the sale is over. I agree - they should be fined if not...

sharon,well said.if we all had this attitude we would have much less litter blowing around.i don't know if people are just lazy or forget.thanks

Bellxchat
  • 17th Mar 2012 11:13am

How does the saying go? you open it, you close it; you take it, you put it back; you break it, you fix it, etc. So, you put the signs up, you take the signs down. Just as an aside, I find it funny that I've never heard anyone admit to littering, yet Clean Up Australia goes from "strength" to strength every year.

david
  • 10th Apr 2012 04:14pm
How does the saying go? you open it, you close it; you take it, you put it back; you break it, you fix it, etc. So, you put the signs up, you take the signs down. Just as an aside, I find it...

great adages bellxchat,if there were more people in the world like you.we would live much less mess and be viromentaly clean.good on you,david

david
  • 17th Mar 2012 11:48am
How does the saying go? you open it, you close it; you take it, you put it back; you break it, you fix it, etc. So, you put the signs up, you take the signs down. Just as an aside, I find it...

bellychat.well said,i completely agree with you.

david
  • 29th Feb 2012 09:45pm

cat your mad the amount of signs they place would take forever.i agree with you garage sales are fun and you can get some quality at bargain prices.if i put the signs out iwould gladly pick them up when sale finished.but being the good samaratan i would rather call the shire to hand out the fine.this is littering at its best

CAT17
  • 29th Feb 2012 07:25pm

Hi david. You got to admit that garage sales are great and people "advertising" them sure helps you find the sale. Yes they should take their signs down, but seriously couldn't you do it for them, that would be neighbourly and would solve the littering problem!

madie-tay
  • 14th Apr 2014 11:57pm
Hi david. You got to admit that garage sales are great and people "advertising" them sure helps you find the sale. Yes they should take their signs down, but seriously couldn't you do it for...

CAT17 I do agree with you to a point yes they are great and people advertising them are handy with finding the sale but if they can take the time to put there signs everywhere she should be able to talk them down, leaving the signs there is littering and yes it may not solve the problem but they put it there they should at least pull them down

smiley
  • 18th Feb 2014 10:38pm
Hi david. You got to admit that garage sales are great and people "advertising" them sure helps you find the sale. Yes they should take their signs down, but seriously couldn't you do it for...

if a person tried to stop get out of their car at every pole that has a poster or sign it would cause a traffic jam + a lot of angry other motorists especially alone Windsor Road from B/Hills to North Parra I counter more than 150 posters on the poles in 2 trips I ring the council and report these giving the organisation/company/persons name each time

Anonymous
  • 10th Feb 2014 01:10pm
Hi david. You got to admit that garage sales are great and people "advertising" them sure helps you find the sale. Yes they should take their signs down, but seriously couldn't you do it for...

I agreed with you CAT17 that garage sales are great for making sales out of unwanted stuffs. The idea of putting down those signs depends on each family's commitment to consider the cleanliness of the neighbourhood community. It would be hard for someone to put off signs even littering made from another person who already benefited from it.

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