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Stroll through your local city early in the morning and you will meet a number of sweeper trucks on the roads cleaning up the rubbish left from all the shenanigans of the previous night. It’s a common early daybreak setting, especially the beeping noise! We don’t actually give litter a consideration as we feel keeping the streets unlittered is not our chore.

Even so, there is a sometimes imperceptible yet significant impact litter plays on human psychology. People are more liable to believe a location is less well policed if rubbish is scattered around, and thus felons see litter as a latent indication for a chance of a break-in, a mugging, or car-theft. The same signal instills some fear in other people who are concerned they may be walking into a more dodgy area and are concerned about possibly being assaulted.

There’s also the impact on the aesthetic appeal of a neighbourhood. Litter strewn around can give the visual aspect of a location looking run down even if it’s just been trashed by revellers from the night before. This can hurt the reputation of a location if people are only within the location for this particular short period of time and only find it in its disheveled state.

Prevention is always better than cure when it comes to litter. There’s absolutely no need to drop rubbish if there are unfilled bins in the neighbourhood. If there are no rubbish bins, or the rubbish bins that are there are overloaded, this is an issue to take up with the local council. Throwing rubbish has a negative influence on everybody.