COMMUNITY leaders have backed a call to share the costs of tackling littering across a 509sq mile area. Leading opposition councillor Councillor Ian Threlfall has tabled a notice of motion to a full meeting of Richmondshire District Council on Tuesday that the authority agrees to empty any extra bins that parish or town councils are prepared to pay for. The Conservative Catterick and Brompton-on-Swale member said residents ranked littering among their biggest bugbears and it was time the Independent and LIberal Democrat-run administration honoured the Council Plan pledge for a Cleaner Healthier Richmondshire by paving the way for new infrastructure the district authority could not afford.