Scores of residents in Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge have helped collected sackfuls of litter in the town towns as part of a clean-up operation in the two towns to support Keep Britain Tidy’s nationwide Great British Spring Clean.
Thoughtless drivers are putting lives and wildlife in danger and blighting the countryside by discarding tons of rubbish.
To cope with the tsunami of trash, special teams from Highways England risk their lives collecting thousands of bags of litter from roadsides.
Now the agency – which looks after the nation s motorways and A-roads and carries out litter picks nearly every day – has backed the Great British Spring Clean, with a plea for selfish motorists to take their rubbish home and stop using verges as a tip.
During the Great British Spring Clean last year, Highways England collected 12,000 bags of litter.
In the Midlands, more than 70 sacks, as well as a mattress and a 1,000-litre oil tank, were collected from the A38 in Staffordshire.