Watch This Motorway litter dumped on verge of carriageway sparks fresh rubbish and fly-tipping campaign By Lucinda Herbert Published 17th Jul 2024, 11:33 BST Comment Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now This video More videos Video shows the shocking state of a motorway verge strewn with rubbish - as campaigners blast the national roads agency for not doing enough to combat litter despite a ‘£5.4 billion annual handout from taxpayers’. Footage taken on the M58 motorway near Wigan, Gtr Manchester, yesterday (Mon) shows the side of the carriageway strewn with discarded food wrappers and bottles.
Campaign group Clean Up Britain shared the footage online and slammed National Highways for not ensuring that its contractors cleaned up properly. Food wrappers and carrier bags full of litter The agency previously claimed that 60 per cent of the network had little or no litter. But in response to a Freedom of Information request from Clean Up Britain in 2022, they admitted: "We don’t undertake audits of our contractors’ work for litter clearance.
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