Stories this week include students taking action on litter that blights their coastline and causes harm to their wildlife, Ryedale District Council are focusing on their litte problem with the launch of a new campaign called 'Don't be a Waste' and a story about 200 students clearing litter from Newcastle despite the cold weather.
Read MoreThis weeks rubbish roundup included stories from Wolverhampton where there has been a huge increase of fines being given out for littering, RSPCA Cymru and North Wales Wildlife Trust coming together for a hige community beach clean, and a 1 hour litterpick by volunteers collected 16 bags of rubbish in Odsey.
Read MoreThis weeks stories seem to focus on the litter patrols around the country, with fines set to double to £150 instead of £80 people are still littering, a man was arrested in Liverpool of suspicion of assaulting a litter officer after he was reported for discarding a cigarette butt.
Read MoreOne of the main stories in this weeks roundup features a story about 2 women being reported by police for throwing their fast food packaging out of their window of a KFC car park. The police stated they would look into the incident and have encouraged anyone to to do the same using the #idiotswhodroplitter.
Read MoreBeach litter is on the rise, one of the stories this weeks features a Barry Island Chip Shop which is fed up with the amount of strewn litter and they themselves have stopped using polystyrene cartons and now switched to biodegradable cardboard even though they are far more expensive than the polystyren. This was all started from a walk down the beaches with their children.
Read MoreThis weeks rubbish roundup includes a story from Asda in Leicester where the residents near the superstore are angered by the companies failure to clear up a pile of rubbish which has been building up for months next to it.
Read MoreThis weeks Rubbish Roundup includes children from a Swindon School visiting their local shopping centre to learn how the centre manages its waste and how their recycling policy works. Each child received small gifts including pencil cases made from tyres and a ruler made from old cd cases.
Read MoreMost of our stories this focus on beach litter, especially in 1 case where a 6 year old girl cut herself on a disposable bbq left by a beach goer.
Read MoreFlytipping covers all of our stories this week, flytipping is the illegal dumping of waste, this can be anything from black bags dumped to fridges to industrial waste, most councils are trying to crack down on this epidemic but without the publics help it is a challenge.
Read MoreIn this weeks stories we included headlines which included residents of Hull that have been fined for flytipping and a sculpture made entirely out of rubbish which appeared on Dublin's Quay.
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