Littering is a crime in the UK and cash strapped councils are looking to private companies to enforce the Environmental Protection Act. One of these enforcement companies is called Kingdom, whos officers are paid a competency allowance for every 4 fines, so do they go out of their way to fine people?
Read MoreKeep Northern Ireland Beautiful is a charity campaign that helps educate peoples attitudes towards litter and environmental issues, the charity back dates to 1954 and have campaigns which have received the backing from celebs such as ABBA. The organisation works across a number of areas to put action plans in place to clean up and proect the environment and carry out assessments on how clean streets are etc...
Read MoreKeep Scotland Beautiful is a charity which tries to educate people about environmental issues and they spread their messages about everything from reducing litter to cutting carbon emissions . It works closely with the government, local councils and community groups for over 50 years now with the aim to working towards a greener and more sustainable Scotland.
Read MoreKeep Scotland Beautiful has estimated that the cost of clearing up litter in Scotland is somewhere in the region of £100 million per year, Aberdeen is part of the national campaign to help get 1 million people involved in helping clear up litter and improve the look in their local area.
Read MoreKeep American Beautiful is a non profit national organisation which enlists the help of volunteers to to help keep clean their communities. It is currently made up of over 620 community based groups with the help of millions of volunteers along with corporate partners and influential individuals and has been going for over 60 years and recently conducted a study which says it costs more than $11.5 billion each year to clean up litter.
Read MoreMicroplastics are tiny pieces of plastics which can be found in most cosmetic products such as body scrubs and makeup, the plastic particles are so small that they find themselves into the ocean via the waterways, this is then ingested by marine life and causes damage. What can you do to help prevent this?
Read MoreWith the litter fines in full force across the country, is there a case for dashcam footage to catch offenders who dispose of litter whilst they are driving. A lot of vehicles have dashcams installed so authorities in Omagh in Northern Ireland have decided to fit their enforcement vehicles with cameras to try to catch culprits and use the evidence in court.
Read MoreThe biggest problem with plastic bags is that they do not degrade they just break down into smaller toxic bits, a bag can take up to 1000 years to fully break down meaning they can contaminate waterways and soils as well as cause problems to wildlife.
Read MoreThe government have been trying to clamp down with litter louts all over the country, mainly down to having to spend almost £800 million per year cleaning up everyone elses litter, councils have now been given to the powers to issue £150 on the spot fines to anyone caught littering.
Read MoreWhereever you go/are there is always a little problem with it comes to waterways, along the banks rubibsh builds up, especially plastics, this discarded waste causes problems for the wildlife in the rivers itself but also spans out to the sea where the rivers flow into. Rivercare aim to help keep the rivers clean by enlisting volunteers, with it's popularity they have now extended to beaches.
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