To HATE the litter problem we have in the UK

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We live in a city suburb and the litter is appalling. Constant- occasionally the council do a good clean but it’s back within a day. We had family visiting from Australia and I was so embarrassed by the state of our streets. We live in a relatively nice city suburb but there is so much litter. I will on occasion litter pick locally but it’s too big a job for me.
Is if a cultural thing? There are some areas with a lot more litter than others and the social/cultural make up is very different- does this explain it? I rarely see anyone actively dropping the litter so I wouldn’t like to ‘blame’ anyone with evidence.
How can we fix it? The UK is so dirty compared to so many other countries. Obviously I never litter and try to impress the importance of not littering on my children but it’s a farce as our local area is covered.

We live close to a motorway and dual carriageway - the litter along the roads is disgusting. We also have fly tippers who come down our lane and drop bags of rubbish opposite the driveways 😡. Our lane seems to attract people on their lunch breaks too so they throw their rubbish, drop cans etc and pee on the road. People have no respect at all these days.

Where I lived before, we had regular litter pickers who went up and down the roads bagging up litter. It was never 100% clean but looked so much better than where I live now.

People doing community service as part of their sentencing used to pick litter but i havent seen them for several years now.