Plastic and the call to be a good ancestor

Round the corner from me there is a short footpath between two streets. It’s a short-cut to the fish-and-chip shop and the cornerstore, and so it has a lot of people walking down it with freshly acquired packaging. Some of it – quite a lot of it – gets discarded along the path. There are always a few tins, plastic bottles and crisp packets strewn across the grass.

The council maintain the footpath by cutting the grass and sending round a guy with a litter-picker from time to time. Unfortunat...