Roadsides are blighted by piles of litter ditched by selfish motorists.
Drive on almost any major highway and you will see the verges covered in plastic bottles, crisp wrappers and drink cans.
This ugly habit is not just an eyesore and a hazard to other drivers.
It also poses a threat to wildlife, including endangered species such as voles and shrews.
If we want to keep our land green and pleasant we need stronger enforcement.
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© Adam Gerrard / Daily MirrorThe Mirror's Nada Farhoud with five bags of rubbish collected from the A27 near Shoreham, West Sussex
Motorists can be fined up to £2,500 for littering but the penalty is rarely enforced.
The Highways Agency is clearly not doing its job of keeping verges clean when some of the rubbish found is more than 40 years old.
Drivers are not the only ones who need to clean up their act. It is time the authorities clamped down on this anti-social behaviour.
Callous claim
© Daily MirrorRoyston Smith MP for Southampton charged the taxpayer for a £1 parking ticket when visiting his local foodbank
Foodbanks provide an essential service when so many families are struggling to make ends meet.
But the fact they exist should be cause of shame for such a wealthy nation.
A decent government would have tackled the underlying causes which have obliged so many people to turn to others for support.
And a decent MP would realise how insulting it is to charge the taxpayer for a £1 parking ticket when visiting his local foodbank.
Yet that is what Tory Royston Smith did after meeting volunteers at a foodbank in his Southampton Itchen constituency.
Mr Smith, who earns £24,000 a year for consultancy work on top of his MP's salary of £81,932, could have made a donation. Better still, he could have done something to end the scourge of poverty in this country.
Pedigree glum
A lockdown boom in pet ownership has triggered a national shortage of some cat and dog foods.
The three million people who brought animals into their homes have certainly given producers something to chew over.