It called on its 5.6million members to play their part in maintaining Britain s green spaces.
The Mail has helped to launch Keep Britain Tidy s litter picking initiative, starting on May 28, by asking readers to roll up their sleeves to clear their local area of rubbish.
More than 56,000 people have so far pledged to clean up around 383,000 miles of the landscape.
The National Trust, which looks after more than 500 sites, said rubbish not only spoils its beauty spots but can also detract from its important conservation work .
The National Trust urged visitors to take their rubbish home with them as it pledged its support for the Daily Mail-backed Great British Spring Clean
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Stevenage Borough Council leader Sharon Taylor with Councillor Jackie Hollywell and some of the litter they collected
- Credit: Courtesy of Sharon Taylor
An increasing problem with litter in Stevenage, which is currently costing taxpayers about £200,000 a year to tackle, is set to be addressed through a series of initiatives.
Stevenage Borough Council leader, Sharon Taylor, says she is shocked at people s willingness to blight some of the town s most attractive areas with rubbish.
Last week, she went litter-picking in Symonds Green with her sister, Laura, and Cllr Jackie Hollywell. She said: The two areas we focused on were along Meadway Lane - a beautiful wooded walk which runs from The Fisherman pub, along behind Berwick Close to Brighton Way.
Iceland Boss Sir Malcolm Walker said parts of the UK resembled one long continuous rubbish dump . He said thoughtless drivers who tossed litter out of car windows were among the worst culprits.
THE RSPCA received its highest number of call-outs for animals trapped in litter across East and West Sussex last year out of anywhere else in England, outside London. The animal welfare charity handled a total of 220 incidents involving animals and birds affected by litter across the county, with 133 calls in East Sussex and 87 in West Sussex. The call-outs were among 3,874 incidents across England and Wales in 2020. As well as everyday rubbish, the RSPCA also sees many animals arriving into its care with terrible injuries caused by angling litter such as discarded fishing line and hooks to plastic netting. Nearly 40 per cent (1,510) of all litter-related calls to the RSPCA last year were about animals that had specifically become caught in fishing litter.
MP Justin Tomlinson I WAS delighted to learn this week that the expansion of the Great Western Hospital is moving on to the next stage, with the GWH Foundation Trust purchasing five-and-a-half hectares of land next to the hospital. This has been made possible thanks to £30 million of Government funding to expand current services and meet rising demand. Both myself and fellow Swindon MP Robert Buckland pushed to deliver this funding, directly lobbying ministers – including the Health Secretary Matt Hancock. The Government has rightly seen how this will transform both emergency care and transitional care in Swindon, and it is fantastic to see work progressing.