Filthy Facts
Last updated | 07/01/2008
- Over 90% of streets in Scotland are blighted with cigarette ends, boxes and matches
- If every smoker dropped one cigarette end a week in the UK, we would be knee deep in 624 million dog ends within a year
- 1.3 million bits of litter are dropped on our roads every weekend
- Throwing litter out of the car window is Britain's biggest driving annoyance - with over 90% of road users finding it irritating
- This fast food litter helped swell the rat population in Britain to 60 million in 2002
