Roads: Litter
(asked on 9th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to (a) prevent littering and (b) collect waste on the Strategic Road Network.
This question was answered on 16th March 2016
Highways England, as a Government Owned Company, is responsible for complying with the mandatory legal requirements under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, which includes removing litter on England’s strategic road network.
Collecting litter puts road workers at risk and is a costly operation, so Highways England works collaboratively with a number of organisations to promote anti-litter campaigns designed to prevent littering occurring.