I am just back from a week on the canals which involved the Tame Valley Canal, Walsall Canal and The Wednesbury Old Canal as well as the BCN main line. I really enjoyed the trip through Birmingham and predictably we went down the weedhatch a lot of times, we just had a bin liner on the stern deck for the rubbish. I was surprised and dissapopinted to see several heaps of rubbish on the tow path right by the canal which were clearly what others had pulled out of their weed hatches.
Personally I think it is really sad that boaters are littering the canals like this, how can we possible complain about rubbish in the canals when we don't help to clear it up ourselves.
I suppose some would have the opinion that it is rubbish, it is not their rubbish and so we can leave it as rubbish.
Which do you do?