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Certainly cans and crisp packets are the biggest issue where I live. Constantly picking these up from the side of the road when I got on walks.
And those full bottles of "Lucozade" commonly seen discarded on the motorways.
According to a recent Channel 4 documentary, there are plenty of those bottles to be found around Amazon warehouses.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Litter is blighting the UK’s footpaths, with an average 41 pieces found a kilometre, according to a major study.
It drew together more than 1,600 submissions by 4,500 volunteers and with the data the authors have estimated as many as 9.1m individual pieces of litter could be found across the UK’s 220,000km of public rights of way.
Many recreational trail users will view their activity as a ‘sport’, requiring challenge and exertion, and therefore additional energy.
After Lucozade, the most commonly found brands were Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Monster, Cadbury and Walkers.
The report authors say the word “pollution” should be used rather than “litter” because “there is clear and growing evidence that this human-made detritus is harmful to the health of the ecosystems that it escapes into.
They add that people litter partly because they feel disconnected from the landscape, so “we believe that outdoor education can no longer be an optional frill alongside the mainstream curriculum.
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MaccieD wrappers as far as the eye can see round here. As soon as that opened up in town, every back country lane was filled with them.
It's like the place where all the kids go once they're allowed to go out to eat on their own. And apparently nobody ever taught them to pick their shit up. Bunch of tramps the lot of them.