Ideas include never litter ask people to pick up their litter pick up the litter of others contact your council and find out the latest litter projects find out about the community groups concerned about litter in your area Organise your own litter project. Community initiatives to help achieve a 'litter-free commons' are also necessary. The research indicates that most people agree that littering is bad, and that some actively clean-up other people's litter of their own initiative. A key task for those designing and implementing local litter reduction strategies is to effectively utilise and extend community support for litter reduction. For guidelines and a form to use for litter counts, see Keep Australia Beautiful .
Participation is likely to be extended if a number of organisations are seen to be contributing.
For example a beach clean-up may be more appealing to citizens if the local council offers to remove the rubbish, and the local chamber of commerce offers to provide the bags to collect it. Conducts a School-aged students litter prevention program. Fines Littering offences and fines have been broadened to deal with different types of litter. See The litter laws . Councils and regulatory agencies can make sure that their officers understand the littering offences and the power to issue penalty notices .