Liverpool City Council currently deals with more than 1,300 fly-tipping incidents a month.
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00:00Liverpool City Council currently deals with more than 1,300 fly-tipping incidents a month.
00:08We've been to speak to you to ask if the city has a litter problem.
00:13It's got a serious litter problem where I live on County Road, it's full of it.
00:17It drives me mad, absolutely drives me mad.
00:20Definitely.
00:21I think Liverpool has a problem with litter, I think everyone has a problem with litter.
00:25The council previously had a partnership with controversial litter enforcement company Kingdom.
00:31However, it did sever ties with the firm in 2018 after a large number of complaints about their behaviour.
00:38I don't blame the council, it's not their fault people throw litter, but I just think it is bad.
00:44Now and again you see litter and there's a bin five yards away and that drives me palsy.
00:50I would.
00:51I would take responsibility because it's my city and I would like my city to look nice and cleaner.
00:58I think people unfortunately have a position of, well, someone will clean up after me.
01:06You wonder what the state of the houses are like.
01:08To maintain a good litter habit year round, the council joined forces with Keep Britain Tidy three years ago
01:15and has since launched Keep Liverpool Tidy.
01:18The collaboration focuses on education engagement and enforcement around littering and dog fouling
01:25as well as closer work with volunteer groups right across the city.
01:29Since the start of the partnership, there have been positive increases in community litter picking.
01:35The Great British Spring Clean is a national event that takes place every year
01:39and asks people to protect the places they love by pledging to collect bags of litter,
01:44bringing an annual boost to activities.
01:47In Liverpool, 52 community events and activities took place during last year's Spring Clean
01:52with over 1,500 bags worth of rubbish taken off the streets.
01:58I think it's symbolic of a throwaway society.
02:01Now everything sort of fast, packaged, recycled, although obviously that does no one the recycling.
02:10I think it's just a culture change.
02:13I think you need better education. I think people need to realise it's not OK.
02:17You can moan at the council over lots of things, but at the end of the day,
02:21the council don't employ people to throw litter on the streets.
02:24I'd like to see it more cleaned up.
02:27When I think about litter, I often think about Bill Bryson's book about Britain, Notes from a Small Island,
02:32which was first published in 1995 in which, once he arrived in the city, he exclaimed,
02:38they were having a festival of litter.
02:41Despite this being published almost 20 years ago,
02:44Liverpool still has a long way to go to clean up our streets.
02:48It's not so much that people don't have a pride in where they live.
02:51I think it's just that they feel that it sort of represents having a bit of a one-up against authority.