Litter in numbers Click or touch text for further information 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 B+ B C+ C D+ D West Midlands West South West East Midlands East of England North East South East and The Humber Yorkshire Greater London North West Source: Keep Britain Tidy, Local Environment Quality Survey of England 2013/14 BACK Litter: Percentage of sites meeting an acceptable standard 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 BACK.