This is rubbish.Literally.

Yes I agree not everything is thrown.And wind blown rubbish is a problem.However you only have to look and see the majority is takeaway food and drink containers just casually lobbed out.And tiny bits that get lost in verges,streams and will never be picked up all polluting our countryside.When we went out for the day my mum packed a home picnic and thermos flask and everything came back home .Not so now sadly.

It is awful. But it's not just people dropping litter when they could - and should - take it home. A lot of it is windblown, perhaps from overfull litter bins, plastic sheeting (horrible stuff) that has escaped from around silage bales, odd bits dropped from bin lorries etc.

It needs clearing up, but this is difficult and dangerous alongside motorways and busy main roads.

None of which changes the fact that it's ruining our countryside.

We have a canal at the back of our house. It's being spoiled by people dumping rubbish in and around the canal. It's a real problem. We have reported it, picked it up ourselves and put it in our bins but there is too much.

It’s awful isn’t it?

If everyone took their litter home litter pickers wouldn’t be necessary…

Washerwoman DH and I drove from Portsmouth to the Oxford area, this weekend M27/M3/A34. It a route we drive regularly and we too were commenting on the huge quantities of litter on the verges, even when we drove down a narrow, quiet country lane, the hedges were full of litter.

Far more than we have ever seen before. I agree it is disgusting.

Has Motorway/Dual carriageway litter picking been cancelled as an economy measuree?