John Fareham and
John Abbott report that the Government are considering beefing up the penalties
for dropping litter, including specific penalties for drivers and passengers
throwing rubbish out of cars such as that which appears regularly on Fairfax Avenue.
Normally, we would
not mention national issues here, but the frequency with which takeaway food
packaging, including but not exclusively comprising that from McDonalds, has
been seen on Fairfax Avenue, and in particular at the southern end, leads us to
the view that much of the rubbish found near the junction with Bricknell Avenue
is likelier to have been thrown from passing motor vehicles than to have been
dropped by pedestrians. We therefore look forward to the formal announcement of
these measures, already trailed in the national press, and hope that they will
act as a deterrent to the wilful abandonment of rubbish where it does not
belong.
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