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Litter: Regional Breakdown

Litter: Percentage of sites meeting an acceptable standard

Litter: The cost of street cleansing to local councils in 2013/14

Most commonly littered items

Composition of Litter

Fly tipping trends

Littering convictions Litter: Regional Breakdown

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D West Midlands South West East Midlands East of England North East South East Yorkshire and The Humber Greater London North West

Source: Keep Britain Tidy, Local Environment Quality Survey of England 2013/14

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North East BEST 87.0%

West Midlands North West South West 79.1% Yorkshire and East Midlands The Humber East of England 83.0% South East

Greater London East Midlands North East 92.8%

Yorks & Humber West Midlands North West 94.7% East of England 92.7% WORST

South West South East 93.3% 89.4%

Greater London 87.5%

BACK Litter: The cost of street cleansing to local councils in 2013/14

£850 million £348 £717 million million

Keep Britain Net expenditure by Keep Britain Tidy’s estimate local authorities on Tidy’s estimate of the indirect street cleansing in of the annual cost of crime 2013/142 cost of cleaning associated up litter to local with litter1 authorities3

Source 1: Keep Britain Tidy, (LIT 065) Source 2: Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing 2013-14, Final Outturn, (Budget line 270) Source 3: Keep Britain Tidy, (LIT 065)

BACK Most commonly littered items

found on Smoking 73% Materials of sites

found on 62.5% Confectionary of sites Packs

found on 52.9% Non-alcoholic of sites drinks related

found on 31.1% of sites Fast-food- related

Source: Keep Britain Tidy, Local Environment Quality Survey of England 2013/14

BACK Composition of Litter

16% Food Packaging and food 35.2% Smokers’ litter 26% Chewing Gum

Source: INCPEN, Litter Composition Survey of England 2014

BACK Fly tipping trends

+20% +24% 852,000 £45.2 MILLION incidents of the estimated cost fly-tipping dealt of clearance of with fly-tipping

of 2,000 prosecutions for fly-tipping, 98% resulted in a conviction

Two thirds of fly-tipping 47% involved of incidents household occured on highways waste

19% of household waste was in black bags

Source: DEFRA, Fly-tipping Statisics for England 2013/14 The increase refers to figured from the previous year, 2012/13.

BACK Littering convictions

£2,500

maximum court fine for littering, 2014 5,500 just under £140

average fine imposed by courts for littering

people found guilty of littering offences in court, 2014

30,678 £75 Fixed Penalty Notices for average Fixed Penalty littering issued in 2008/09 Notice fine for littering

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