Have you seen the discarded, red elastic bands on the pavement in your road? Do you know where they come from and how they got there?
Well, it isn’t really much of a mystery – in fact its a common occurrence up and down the country as well as in Hoylake! Your dear Royal Mail postman (postwoman perhaps) is the prime suspect and the Keep Britain Tidy organisation isn’t best pleased. The charity says streets are being littered with the elastic bands and is warning that offenders face an on-the-spot £80 fine.
Personally, I really can’t understand why the Royal Mail staff just can’t take them back to the sorting office to use again – perhaps there’s some reason why not? Even so, there isn’t really any need to just throw them on the floor.
The one pictured above was spotted in Hoyle Road. I’ll no doubt find a use for it.
Aye Up Johnny!!! These bands are Bio-degradable (as stated by Royal Mail in an article published in Lewisham in 2006).Royal Mail use 342000000 of them each year,and claim that the majority of them are re-used (or left on the gearsticks of all the Postie vans I buy).
Hi Mike
Well I didn’t know that they are bio-degradable. Still a hazard for owners of new puppies though !