Thanks for reply.
We are actually now adopting many of the US policies you mentioned: heavy fines for flytipping,sponsored litter bins.
We have considered fines for people who overload or misload the various types of refuge bins at home (ie put household rubbish in a ‘green’ garden refuge bin, or fail to put paper in the blue recycling bin-—most houses now have three bins: brown for regular rubbish, ‘green’ for garden rubbish and blue for recyclable material-—), but that caused a storm and the councils concerned may back off of that idea, as British people found the idea of fines over their own household/garden rubbish too draconian. Esp. as many penny pinching councils are cutting back on bin uplifts, some only doing it once every two weeks!.A health hazard in itself...
I like the car litter bag idea though, lazy idiots throwing cigarette papers and even worse out of cars on roads and motorways does happen here...
Great Britain Woman in court on recycle charges (Put wrong waste in wrong bin; case sets precedent)
U.K. The 250,000 families with a spy in the bins (Test of trash cans that weigh your garbage)
It's understandable that issues pertaining to trash are going to be a bit more contentious in the UK because you're dealing with a smaller landmass area and so space for disposal is going to be at a premium. Things would likely be similar here if the USA was considerably smaller. We have the multicolored recycle bins here in Washington State as well, but that sort of thing will typically vary by city, county or State.
Regarding the plastic grocery bags, I confess that I'm puzzled over one thing, perhaps you can help. I'm wondering how the plastic bags have become a litter problem to begin with? If one traces the typical journey of the plastic grocery bag, it starts out at the grocer's where the vivacious young lass fills it with all of the goodies that you've picked out in the shop. She hands it to you with a comely smile and bids you good day, and you eventually find your way back home with it, bring it indoors and proceed to consume the contents right away or fill your fridge with it. The bag itself once empty is commonly used as a wastebasket liner, and when it's full it gets placed in the wheelie bin outside. I must say that I'm baffled as to how so very many of them have apparently gotten out onto the streets in the UK, as whenever the bag is outside it's filled and fulfilling a useful purpose. I haven't heard of any such problem with large numbers of empty plastic grocery bags littering the streets here in the USA, and I'm wondering what's going on with that that's so different across the Pond.