Drink bottles and cans are a dominant share of litter by volume
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Single-use beverage containers — plastic bottles, aluminium cans, glass bottles, and caps — are among the most-collected litter items worldwide and can exceed half of all litter by volume in some surveys, with outsized impact on marine and freshwater debris.
#00130Roadside Pollution of Cans and Bottles
In some locations, most roadside litter consists of alcohol cans and bottles, indicating drivers consuming alcohol behind the wheel—making this both a public safety and a littering issue.