London Freebies in trouble

Many sources of this story.Westminster Council are cracking down on the amount of waste paper being created by London's Free giveaway newspapers.

Unless the freebies pay towards the £500k costs of cleaning up the thousands of copies that are disguarded every day the papers could be banned from the streets.

I believe that everybody is acutely aware that the current situation is untenable, and that urgent action is needed to address this unprecedented volume of waste," he said.
"For residents, visitors and businesses to be greeted by the eyesore of piles of discarded newspapers in our streets is quite unacceptable."

Councillor Alan Bradley reported on Guardian Media