Litter and the facts!

Litter is a problem that i think we will never stamp out. Lets take a little look at litter and the statistics.

The facts

When researching the facts i can honestly say they shocked me. Everyone knows about litter and it's effects but how much do we really know?

Lets take a look at how much litter is dropped a day; 2.25 million induvidual pieces of litter are dropped in the UK every day, to put it into simple terms it's several truck loads daily! The worst part is we know it's wrong but yet just under 50% of our population admit to doing it. Surely there is a litter bin somewhere, if not keep it until there is one?

Smoking related litter is proven to be the most common in the UK. Mainly extinguished cigarette butts when the UK was surveyed for litter in 2009/10  and in 2009 over 30,000 people were fined by local councils and authorities for dropping little. The fines help local councils recover the money lost by cleaning up after other people. An estimated £885 million is spent yearly on the battle against litter, That's a lot of money! Fast food related litter is right up there with smoking related litter. Tons of it is dropped by us, the public every day.

It has also been proven that if the public are happy with the way their area looks and how clean it is they are more likely to feel more safer living there. So the more you keep your area clean and tidy the safer and more comfortable people feel! This is the perfect fact to show that litter doesn't just affect the cleanliness of your residence but it also affects your fellow neighbors.

So now it is time to give a big thanks to the people who spend their lives cleaning up "our" mess and you can do so starting with this local company I know called Champion Cleaning Services who are commercial cleaners in Warrington.