Fag ends are classed as litter these days so all those tabs Geordies smoke would have probably made a pile the size of a mountain range 
Anyway contrary to popular belief littering in this country isn't a recent phenomenon, I was always under the impression that the "Keep Britain Tidy" campaign was started in the mid 70's when I was a kid as it suddenly started appearing on sweet wrappers.
Turns out it was started 20 years before in the mid 50's so there must have been recognition of a littering problem for people to start it
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Not sure about the recent Bournemouth beach issue but there is evidence that if you provide enough bins etc that most people actually use them however i'd agree there are far too many dick heads in this country with no respect.
Remember when they removed bins in some major cities after the IRA used them for putting bombs in, instead of taking their rubbish home people just dropped it 
There was also a study done where they cleaned one side of a busy shopping road in London and didn't clean the other side, the amount of rubbish dropped on the uncleaned side was far higher than on the side which was cleaned.
It's a mindset really, i've been to Switzerland a number of times on business and at the end of my 1st trip I just thought that I hadn't seen any litter or anywhere untidy.
On all my subsequent trips I actively looked for litter but never saw any
Litter is a real bugbear for me. There is absolutely no need for it, anywhere, at any time. It would disappear tomorrow if people were considerate.
As regards Bournemouth beach, I live in the vicinity. A lot of bollocks has been talked about what's been going on this last week or so, mainly by people who don't know the place and weren't there, but who've read some sensationalised nonsense on a news website and seen those telephoto'd photos that look like everyone's about 3 inches apart.
Yes, the beach has been crowded but it was never as bad as it looked, and there have been issues around car parking and so on. But most people have been fine, and by and large, considerate. The blame lies 100 per cent with the council. They can read a weather forecast same as everyone else can, but they didn't put enough bins out, they didn't unlock all the lavs (there'a a lav about every 200/300 yards along the promenade from Boscombe down to Sandbanks) and they didn't think to make provision for extra car parking space or controlling existing space well enough. As a consequence, last Thursday afternoon was total bedlam.
But by 7.30am Friday, all the litter was cleared up and the beach raked.
Re litter, I know everyone blames the C1s and C2s, but I see everyone doing it. When there's no lockdown, I get the train from Waterloo down to the coast a couple of days a week, often at peak times when there's a fair proportion of what you'd call middle class types on the train. You can tell it's them by all the Yo Sushi packaging, cans and bottles they leave on the tables and seats when they get off at Winchester, Southampton and elsewhere. Now these people aren't yobs. I'm sure they all pay their taxes, help their kids with their homework and probably support fucking Greenpeace. But for some reason, they think leaving a total mess behind them is OK. I suspect if you challenged them, they'd say that they thought some minion would be along in a while and clear it all up.
I was brung up to believe you have to leave a place as you found it. Hardly a difficult rule to make for yourself.
