Highways England have launched a new campaign in the North West after litter picking teams collecting 40,000 sacks of litter from the side of the road which works out at 108 sacks per mile. As you can imagine this works out a very expensive procedure for the councils, so what is being done?
Read MoreNew taxes are being considered in Wales, and the government are asking the public for their views and suggestions, one of the ideas is the deposit return scheme on plastic bottles, this is where you pay a slight deposit when you buy a plastic bottle and when recycled this deposit is refunded.
Read MoreThe festival season is well and truely underway, everyone has a blast but do they dispose of their items correctly or just leave everything lieing around for someone else to clear up? Glastonbury for example is expected to cost upwards of £750,000 to just clean up.
Read MoreEveryone should be proud of the neighbourhood, and litter should not be blighting childrens play areas and parks in your local community. Keep Britain Tidy is one of the many organisations aimed at helping to keep Britain tidy and litter free, but everyone has a responsability to do their part.
Read MoreGermany has some of the strictest litter laws in the world, which obviously work as the German streets are almost immaculate. In Germany they introduced a bottle deposit scheme as well as shopkeepers by law are required to keep the pavement outside of their shop clean.
Read MoreChewing gum is one of the worst types of litter, resistant to a lot of removal methods and it does not degrade which then proves expensive when it can be removed. In Ennis a chewing gum taskforce has been set up which aims to educate about the problems of chewing gum litter, proving successful with now 6 out of 7 now saying they would dispose of the gum correctly.
Read MoreCigarette litter is the most commonly dropped litter today, and Paris is the fight against it, if you are caught discarding any cigarette litter you can expect a €68 fine which is part of a national campaign in Paris. Other campaigns has been launched in the past but have failed and now officials believe fines are ethe only way to combat the issue.
Read MoreThe Love Your Forest Campaign looked at different ways to help reduce litter in the Forest of Dean area, this included a pop up litter shop which showcased artwork made from 33 year old litter to demonstrate the length of time which litter can last if discarded. Ribena and Lucozade contributed to this campaign to help interact with the community that they are based in.
Read MoreThe behaviour change charity Hubbub have launched a new campaign which aims to reduce the amount of litter which ends up in the UK's waterways system, 'For Fish's Sake' launched last week and targets people who leave litter on walls, down drains or next to bins, believing they aren't littering because they haven't thrown the litter on the ground.
Read MoreKeep Wales Tidy is a charity which works throughout Wales to help protect the environment, they deliver campaigns environmental education and training across Wales. Established in the 1950s the focus was restoring the pride in the UK after the way but it wasnt until 1972 when they were launched and became an independent charity in 2005.
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