I feel that littering is just people being idle. The article from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, conducted research and explains that people fell into 6 categories, for example “the beautifully behaved” where their only littering was apples etc, up to “life’s too short and am I bothered” category. This included those who have no consequence for their littering.
If there is no bin near, then people are more likely to drop litter. Especially true is why keep it in your car or bag when you can just drop/chuck it on the floor/out the window and forget about it.
Again referring to the article requesting that the local authorities need to put more bins and place them in the right places is easier said than done. If parents and elders inform children that littering is bad then they are more likely to grow up and not see littering as OK. In the long term littering is damaging our environment and the recent issue taken by supermarkets e.g. reusable bags, charging for bags is certainly catching on and if more activities like this are introduced then the littering is certainly going to decrease.
Overall if people were to just dispose of their litter correctly it would ‘Keep Britain Tidy’.
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