Let’s help Paxman tackle the litter louts | Brief letters

Litter | Ig Nobel prize | EU law | Ishmael | Geoffrey BoycottI wish Jeremy Paxman’s campaign to make littering unacceptable every success (Paxman lays out proposals to stop Britain being ‘nation of litter louts’, 12 September). But there is a simpler way of solving the problem. If everyone who is able picked up just one piece of litter, as I do despite my geriatric knees which make bending down difficult, the streets would soon be clean. And the litter louts might get the messa