It really makes my blood boil the amount of rubbish at the road sides in this country (England), I used to think it was only the towns, but when I lived really rurally in Wales, we would go out for a walk, or drive down the single track lane to our home, and would nearly always come back with things like drink cans, milk bottled, polystyrene food containers from the chip shops, etc. We would always stop, pick it up, and take it home to bin, but I drew the line at used condoms left in our gateway, and used a stick to flick them in the hedgerow. Absolutely DISGUSTING!! Our motorways and dual carriageways on the whole are absolutely covered in litter, obviously some of it comes from the litter bins which aren't emptied often enough, so people put stuff beside the bin and it then gets blown all over the place.
However, I've often thought, that if there aren't sufficient funds for councils to pay for this stuff to be picked up, that people who are well enough to work, but don't, and claim benefits instead, should be made to do a few hours of litter picking a week, as a way to 'earn' their benefits. I bet a lot of these people would suddenly find a job, if that was implemented!
Sits back and waits for the REAL benefit scroungers to start spouting about how unfair this would be, slave labour, etc!