People outraged by “lack of civility” in picnic park

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The Remédios picnic park, in Santa Cruz, woke up this Tuesday with trash. The place, which is very popular with Madeirans and tourists for gatherings and picnics, had bags scattered around, with napkins, bottles and food on the floor, which caused indignation among those who visited this space.

According to people, the garbage was quickly collected by members of the Santa Cruz City Council.

However, the same sources complain of “a lack of civility, when there is a garbage container just a few meters away”.

“It was probably the dogs that spread the rubbish during the night, but if people put the rubbish in the aforementioned container instead of leaving it in bags near the shelters this wouldn’t happen”, they added, lamenting the situation.

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10 Responses

  1. Unfortunately we have seen this behavior everywhere. At levadas, at concerts, etc. Some people are with low education or lack of common sense for this community.

  2. People today in general are selfish and inconsiderate of others and the environment. May have to post signs, saying heavy fines for making messes and park may be closed for a few days as a result. May have to resort to cameras as well. So so sad.

  3. Common sense is not very common. This looks like a dog job to me. The island needs to do something about the many stray dogs. It has been talked about for years. If the rubbish bins are sturdy and tall, then the dogs can’t get to them. The Santa Cruz Council needs to do their part. I don’t know how much hope there is for the eurotrash and some of the locals who don’t give two squats about anyone or anything but themselves. My latest encounter yesterday: Four parking spots with two workers trucks taking two each. That’s the way it is when manners, courtesy toward others and civility are no longer taught by parents or practiced. On a positive note, the same types of parks in other European cities would also have syringes ?. In the US there would be multiple kg of human waste in many parks given over to the homeless. So, in comparison, we don’t have it as bad as other places.

    1. I too am disgusted to see this behaviour, principally I imagine, to be the work of thoughtless tourists with complete disregard for anyone but themselves. I’m not a resident myself but aspire to visit Madiera and hope that other would be tourists will treat this beautiful place with the respect it deserves.

  4. Well I was in Madeira in a area cover with woods and inside there was a area for gatherings and picnics and it was like that I did collect the rubbish and did take with me in the car to drop in the bin .And I did called the forest rangers to let them know that what did happen it is a shame that some people are incapable to take with them the rubbish and leave everything behind selfish lot . And the the tourists can you please stop washing there feet in the levadas plus there dogs that is the water people drink.

  5. No help but it is awful in our village, which used to be pristine. Now it is just like an open air dustbin, and don’t get me started on the cigarette stubs everywhere. It is supposed to be an offence not to clean up after your dog – rubbish there is no one to enforce this rule. As a little girl my mother would say, if you had a sweet wrapper or the like, put it in your pocket and put it in the bin when we get home, which we all did. Now everything just gets discarded, it is ridiculous. A relative and a few others started to clean up along the main road, which was so good of them but you ought to have seen it very soon after they finished. They had wasted their time sadly.

  6. Don’t blame the animals….it’s generally the human who are at fault ….

    Drugged or boozed up

    If it is dogs then it’s the fault of those uneducated persons who have aboundand there pets ..so much of it here …

    Lots of Locals I see throw garbage on the road ..walking or passing in a car . discarded cigarette packages . tissues etc etc
    Seems to happen a lot more now days ..don’t get me started on the driving in Madeira…give way what’s that ???

  7. Paul Laurence
    Not only locals but tourists also and in the case washing their feet plus the dogs in the levadas that is the tourists . I made a few hikes when I was there in August and did across several places in the levadas where still exist small houses where the water company was people looking after the levadas a many of this men are complete feed up and annoyed that many tourist are washing themselves in the levadas plus washing their dogs and that isn’t right or correct. And when I did call the forest rangers they also feed up with the tourist wild camping and many of them leave all the rubbish behind .

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