Tuesday 1st June 2004

Litterbugs

Who are these scumbags who trash our country?

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A staggering 1.3 million individual pieces of litter are dumped on UK roads just at weekends, many of them by motorists and their passengers.

According to a survey by car breakdown service Autonational Rescue, 70% of drivers think that throwing litter out of car, van or lorry windows is the ‘most annoying habit on the road’ yet 50% admit to doing it themselves!

Vets have estimated that around 70,000 domestic and wild animals are killed or hurt by rubbish every year, according to the Keep Britain Tidy group. Animals and birds are routinely cut by cans or broken glass, poisoned by eating spoiled food and suffocated by plastic packaging.

[peteff]

MacDonalds drive through causes lots of litter as the debris left over gets thrown out of cars instead of waiting till they get home and putting it in the bin. I live across the road from a chipshop and I notice also that a lot of people eat in their car and then open the door and shove the wrappers underneath before driving off. Really subtle that one as the bin is 4 yards away so someone else might pick it up.