Anger over 'filthy dump' as litter plagues motorways leaving UK looking like 'rubbish bin'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAnti-litter campaigners say the country's motorways and A-roads have been left to look like a "filthy, littered dump" with bottles, packets and rubbish piling up.
Videos and pictures of the M6, M58, and also of the M66 have been shared by campaign group Clean Up Britain in recent weeks, showing litter strewn across verges at the side of the carriageway.
The group is calling on Highways England, local councils and the litter-dropping general public to reverse the trend which has left public area looking 'like an open cast tip', reports LancsLive. READ MORE 'We were glad to give Ukrainian refugees a home - but this is what we wish we'd known before we did it' According to reports, a leading law firm has been instructed to write to the government agency warning that it is ‘in flagrant and systemic breach of its duties’ for failing to clear the roads.
Highways England has defended its record, saying it spends millions of pounds each year on litter picking work. Clean Up Britain most recently highlighted the example of the M6 and M58 interchange in West Lancashire as a particularly bad example.
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