An interesting thread - We have lots of homeless in the town, and as I walk past I often think, why don't you get out of that shop door-way and volunteer to pick some rubbish up. Surely that may help their cause to being rehomed. Also, down here, the people who pick rubbish on the busy road verges are people who have to do community things because of some crime they have committed, and some are on day-release from open prison, with supervision of course.
But a lot of it comes down to the word "Respect", this word seems to have very little application today. I would never dream of chucking out litter, it was not what I was taught. My parents would be so angry with me. So whenever I see litter about the village, I just pick it up and bin it. Mrs Bouquet