ENGLAND’S roadside litter hotspots have been revealed by Highways England, which claims littering motorists cost taxpayers on average £8million a year.
The agency said it collects about 200,000 sacks of rubbish annually from the strategic road network, at a cost of £40 per sack. It pointed out that the cost of filling a pothole is also £40, and the money could be better spent if motorists stopped littering.
The problem is so bad in some parts of the country that the agency has dubbed them ‘litter hotspots’, with over 7,000 bags of rubbish having been collected from these 25 individual sites since January, at an estimated cost of £280,000. These hotspots are often as small as a single slip road or junction on motorways such as the M1, M11 and…
