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AVDC spends £350,000 each year picking up dropped litter from around the Vale.
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£739 is spent every day keeping Aylesbury town centre clean.
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33% of all litter is fast food.
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70% of all rubbish comes from food packaging.
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95% of vets say they have treated animals injured by litter.
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It costs 10p to clean up every piece of gum from pavements.
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122 tonnes of cigarette butts dropped daily in the UK.
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Litter costs almost £1 billion a year to the UK.
For more information on littering please visit: www.keepbritaintidy.org