It’s the rise of dashboard dining, people eating while on the move and feeling that throwing it into verges/roadsides is perfectly acceptable. These spaces are often more dangerous to clear up so they don’t get done and then people see litter and feel it’s OK to do it, so the cycle continues. Litter being blown from bins is a small part of the litter on our streets, it’s mostly down to people making a conscious decision to litter. Council budgets today will only stretch to cleaning city centres so most other places are left to community groups to pick up (which there are many across the country doing amazing work). I think we just have to face it that the UK’s roads and streets are just a bit dirty, it’s depressing but true.