Council backs new litter campaign
Plan to tackle littering from vehicles
Lancaster City Council is backing a new campaign to tackle motorists who use our streets as rubbish bins.
Each the council spends hundreds of thousands of pounds cleaning litter from the district’s streets – an increasing amount of which comes from car drivers and their passengers.
The council is working closely with Keep Britain Tidy, the national charity dedicated to keeping our streets clean, to launch a new campaign to encourage people to report litter dropped from vehicles.
Coun Jon Barry, Cabinet member with responsibility for City Council (Direct) Services, said: “I very much support this campaign. An increasing amount of litter is being thrown out of car windows and it is something we need to stop.
“Apart from anything else, it is costing the council and local tax payers to clean it up.”
People can report incidents of littering from vehicles on the Keep Britain Tidy website at www.keepbritaintidy.org.
They will be recorded on a database and used to analyse trends in littering from vehicles.
Date Published: 14/07/09