The council has the power to issue on-the-spot fines of £100 to anyone caught dropping litter. This includes cigarette butts and items such as apple cores and banana peel. Some litter items can take take hundreds of years to decompose.
Find out how we are trying to tackle litter in Torfaen
What the council does?
- Empty 700 litter bins every week
- Clean satellite shopping centres every day
- Cleanse every street once a fortnight
- Work with Keep Wales Tidy to provide community litter picking hubs
- Work with Keep Wales Tidy to create school or business Litter Free Zones
- Support litter picking volunteer groups
What you can do?
- Pick up litter and put into the nearest litter bin
- Become a volunteer litter picker
- Report abandoned trolleys via the TrolleyWise (opens in new tab) website