Street litter on the rise with cigarette butts and 急速な／放蕩な food and コンテナs to 非難する for problem

By Daily Mail Reporter
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Almost a fifth of England's streets are in a poor 明言する／公表する because of rubbish, with 急速な／放蕩な food 一括ing and drinks コンテナs の中で the litter on the rise, a 調査する shows today.

政府 大臣 Lord 追跡（する） 勧めるd the public and 地元の 当局 to do more to 取り組む the problem of litter, which costs around £550 million a year for 会議s to （疑いを）晴らす up.

The 地元の 環境 質 調査する of 19,000 場所／位置s, （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d by the 環境 Department (Defra), showed that cigarette butts and other smoking rubbish was still the most 広範囲にわたって-設立する litter, spotted at 78 per cent of 場所／位置s.

Cigarette butts

Cigarette butts were the most 広範囲にわたって 設立する litter, 現在の at 78 per cent of the 場所／位置s analysed for the 調査する （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d by Defra

Confectionery 一括ing was 設立する at almost two-thirds of 場所／位置s (64 per cent) 検査／視察するd between April 2007 and March 2008, although levels had fallen わずかに on the previous year's 67 per cent 人物／姿／数字.

But 急速な／放蕩な food litter, which has risen almost every year since the 調査する began seven years ago, rose again by 1per cent and was 設立する at a ４半期/4分の1 of 場所／位置s.

アル中患者 drinks litter was 設立する at more than a fifth of 場所／位置s (22 per cent), a rise of 1 per cent on last year, while soft drinks rubbish was 設立する at 57 per cent of the 調査するd 場所／位置s, an 増加する of 5 per cent.

Dog fouling fell わずかに for the second 連続する year and was 設立する at 6 per cent of 場所／位置s in the 調査する, which was 収集するd by Keep Britain Tidy.
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全体にわたる the number of 場所／位置s which fell below the （判断の）基準 level of 'unsatisfactory' was 18 per cent in 2007/2008, わずかに better than the previous year's 人物／姿／数字 of 21per cent.

But Lord 追跡（する） will tell the Keep Britain Tidy 会議／協議会 in Brighton today that the 改良 is 'nothing to shout about'.

"The good news is that the 明言する／公表する of our streets is not getting any worse, but the small 3 per cent 改良 is nothing to shout about.

'For most people dropping litter on the street is 考えられない. It is the 少数，小数派 who are letting us 負かす／撃墜する.

'Litter is everyone's 責任／義務 and we all need to work together, both 地元の and central 政府 and the public, to help 改善する the look of our communities and put a stop to this unsightly problem.'

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