This year, the focus was firmly on climate-changing and protecting the environment. This means there’s been no shortage of stories about rubbish. Here are some of the best rubbish stories of 2021.

Rubbish might not be the most glamorous thing in the world. However, there’s never a shortage of headlines about it. In this roundup, we want to share some autumn rubbish stories with you. Welcome to the good, the bad, and ugly of litter tales.

Parks and green spaces became a lifeline for many of us during the national lockdowns. We walked, jogged, took the kids for a kickabout, some of us dropped litter. However, despite the need for safe, clean local parks, when lockdown eased, they were hard to come by. Councils spent tens of thousands of pounds trying to keep on top of the piles of litter that people left behind every day. However, it was a losing battle.

The good news is, you don’t have to be one of those people who complain about litter but does nothing about it. You can do your bit to clean up your local parks. Here’s how.

This weeks Rubbish Roundup features stories including two brothers who have raised money for their school by upcycling, and in Kent a schoolboy was so angry at the amount of rubbish that visitors left that he launched a clean up program

This weeks rubbish roundup features stories including Oxfordshire district council extending their litter budget.  Research carried out showed that at the start of 2020 litterlouts were mainly males aged between 20-29 years old,and finally national park managers were not enjoying the increase numbers over the lockdown