It costs millions of pounds a year to close motorways to pick up litter
Huge swathes of rubbish has been pictured at the side of the exit sliproad at Junction 12 of the M65 for Burnley . One motorist told LancsLive is "a disgrace" and described the scene as resembling "a rubbish dump".
National Highways use several methods to crack down on litter louts. These include car and lorry driver height bins at motorway services, using innovative cleaning techniques, like industrial vacuums, installing time lapse cameras to monitor littering, influencing littering behaviour through communications campaigns and anti-littering posters and signs and more rapid clean-up action.
"National Highways complies with its duties under the Environmental Protection Act and is responsible for collecting litter from England’s motorways and a small number of A-roads. Our litter strategy sets out how we aim to improve litter collection, be more responsive to customer feedback and work with others to tackle the issue.
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