FOR many years we have lived in a surveillance society with CCTV cameras at regular intervals on most main city streets.

Yet the number of littering cases coming before the magistrates are minimal compared with ever increasing motoring offences (money spinners).

On my regular excursions around the Shirley area of Southampton, I have noted that many people who use the seats, usually the elderly, are having to sit alongside half-eaten food and drink bottles. Also, people boarding buses leave their rubbish at the stops. There are plenty of waste bins in Shirley High Street but it would appear to be too much effort to use them; and of course there is a police station to hand and no shortage of police community support officers strolling these streets.

Why then is this area of Southampton littered with all types of rubbish that people are too lazy to take home or place in the correct waste bins? Why are they getting away with it? I suggest this is a blatant waste of our taxes.

And as for the supposed bottle/book bank in Cannon Street, all I can say is that if anyone is looking for an old armchair or wardrobe, even an occasional bed, that's where you'd be likely to find one. Ugh!

L A O'BEE, Lordswood, Southampton.