Environmental

LETTER ON LITTER

Shame on you, public at large. A recent survey by Litter Heroes collected 7,796 branded items of litter in British cities and found that:
  • The most common were 34% drinks cans and bottles, 16% confectionery wrappers, 13% fast food, 10% cigarette packets and 8% crisp packets.
  • The five most prevalent brands were 4.9% Coca-Cola, 4.1% Walkers crisps, 3.6% McDonald’s, 2.7% Cadbury and 2.0% Red Bull.
This leads me to three conclusions:
  1. We should all put more pressure on those who litter.
  2. We should also demand better facilities to collect litter and recycling.
  3. We should ask Litter Heroes to include cigarette ends and gum next time as I fear the wrappers would be heavily outnumbered by the contents. Literally.
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