Clean up your act!
Over the weekend 47 cars, 11 tents and one caravan were counted parked up at Glen Orchy, where there are no toilets or bins. And in Oban, campervans are ignoring notices forbidding overnight camping at Ganavan.
Now following an unprecedented amount of rubbish being left behind at some of our outstanding beauty spots – including excrement and camping gear – many people have said, enough!
This week Oban and Lorn Area Committee spoke out, appealing to visitors – and locals, because the mess is not just down to tourists – to have a bit of respect for our town, villages, and countryside.
The outstanding natural beauty of our region is, after all, why many people visit. But if this carries on and visitors wanting to spend time – and money – in our area are met by litter and flytipping, many may decide not to come back.
Would you want to take your children to a beach where they could cut their feet on broken beer bottles? Or stop for a picnic lunch at a beauty spot where people have left bags of rubbish or human excrement? Of course you wouldn’t.
If we don’t clean up our act, legislation may be the only way to force people to pick up after themselves, and that’s not what any of us want.
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