Name your drain

Last year’s industrial action by refuse workers only served to highlight the longstanding and worsening problem of litter in Scotland. Keep Scotland Beautiful have called for a new approach to what it calls a litter emergency and a new national litter plan will be launched in the weeks ahead. For some reason, for too many people, litter has become someone else’s responsibility. Community litter picks aside, what else can be done? In the States, the idea of adopting roads and highways has been in place for a while. More recently, communities have even been adopting, and naming, storm drains.