Keep Britain Tidy

Residents are being encouraged to take part in the Great British Spring Clean

Residents urged to pick up their litter-pickers Sian Jones

A council worker using an Aqua Fortis, or "Gumbuster", in a bid to remove chewing gum from roads and pavements

Keep Britain Tidy campaign to blitz chewing gum is hailed a success Charles Graham

Martin Clunes and Caroline Catz in Doc Martin

Keep Britain Tidy pleads with entertainment chiefs in sky lantern ban campaign Charles Graham

An all too familiar scene in Wigan

Plans to tackle litter and flytipping after it emerged it costs council £4m George Lythgoe

Photos show Canal & River Trust volunteer leader Neil Holladay (second right) with enthusiastic volunteers from the Leeds & Liverpool Canal - delighted to be awarded a coveted Green Flag and heritage award for a new 35-mile canal length from Liverpool to Wigan.

Liverpool and Leeds canal celebrates green flag status Matt Pennington

Beacon Country Park is one of 12 new sites included in the Walk This Way programme

Wigan dog owners urged to bin the bag Sian Jones

Have some fun in the sun at the beach

9 of the best and cleanest beaches just an hour or less away from Wigan by car Jon Peake

Coun Paul Prescott ready to get litter picking as part of the Great British Spring Clean

Wigan's spring clean Sian Jones

Staff kept busy at Wigan's Kirkless recycling centre

Wiganers produce more rubbish than the national average Patrick Jack

The walled garden at Worden Park, Leyland. The park is one of just four nationwide that have been awarded Green Flag status every year since the awards' inception in 1996.

Conservation group reveals the Lancashire parks which have won coveted Green Fla... Phil Cunnington

The amount of waste produced by each resident last year is as heavy as four washing machines

What a load of rubbish! Average Wiganer produces half a tonne every year Federica Bedendo

Gardeners Wayne O’Neill and Charlie Munro, Michael Fishwick, Greenspace officer, volunteer John Broomhead, Gerard Lockett, team leader, Mike Cheers (Parks and Streetscene Area Manager)

Four borough parks once again hailed as some of best in the world Charles Graham

Some of the litter collected from the sand at Blackpool recently (Picture: Keep Britain Tidy)

'Seeing beauty of sparkling blue seawater undone by litter louts is unacceptable... Michael Holmes

Plastic bottles and cans make up a lot of our litter

‘Drink and drop’ litter menace Post reporter

A new survey has found that plastic bottles account for most of the litter dropped on Britains streets, parks and beaches

North west green group calls for deposit scheme on bottles and levy on plastic c... Phil Cunnington

Fly-tipped waste in Wigan

Wigan Council: 'We will take the fight to fly-tippers' Niall Griffiths