Litter costs Wirral £4 million a year

Jul 28 2010 by Jade Wright, Birkenhead News

WIRRAL Council is getting behind Keep Britain Tidy’s campaign to clean up England’s streets and save the country not far off a billion pounds a year.

Every year in Britain, it costs £858 million to pick up the litter that doesn’t make it into a bin.

That’s £2.3 million a day, 365 days a year – and some of that money could be used for services for the people of Wirral instead being used to clear up discarded cigarette ends and fast-food wrappers!

In Wirral, the Council has to spend £4.million each year picking up after the people who can’t be bothered to bin their rubbish.

Keep Britain Tidy’s latest campaign is calling on everyone to ‘Get behind’ its rallying cry to clean up England’s streets.

The charity’s message is that, in these days of tough spending choices, the fact that we have to spend £858 million on cleaning up litter is a national disgrace – and the solution lies in our own hands.

Keep Britain Tidy’s chief executive Phil Barton said: “It’s ridiculous that councils have to spend so much money on cleaning up their residents’ litter.