Litter bins :: Shared Description
Litter was first seen as a national problem in the mid-1950s just as our domestic manufacturing industry began to bounce back after the Second World War. In 1957, The Times newspaper complained about ‘litter by the tonne’ and in 1958 we had the first Litter Act. By the 1970s disposable products were intrinsic to our daily lives and ‘littering’ had become a widely accepted social norm. Being well brought up, I still cannot help myself staring when an otherwise ordinary looking person brazenly drops litter. A 2016 survey found Britain’s top litter items were cigarette stubs, sweet wrappers, drinks bottles, food packaging, paper tissues and plastic bags. The average person, apparently, holds a piece of litter for 12 steps before dropping it. So if there isn’t a litter bin within about thirty feet, chances are it lands on the ground…..
by Basher Eyre
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Created: Sat, 11 Dec 2021, Updated: Sat, 11 Dec 2021
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