Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
Nigel Biggar (Patron) is the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, and a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. He has published academic tomes on the ethics of nationalism, war, forgiveness, and assisted suicide. And he has written on the possibility of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Northern Ireland in the Irish Times, on the Iraq war in the Financial Times, on Scottish independence in Standpoint magazine, on the ethics of Trident in The Scottish Review, and on the rights and wrongs of colonialism in The Times.
He considers himself privileged to have been born in rural south-west Scotland, where he learned at a very early age to love the landscape of Britain in all its wonderful variety. For that reason, he has long hated litter—not just because it fosters the rat population, or because it signals the abandonment of public space and invites crime, or because it wastes millions of pounds of tax-payers money in picking it up, but mainly because it’s a gratuitous slap in the face of beauty. Wherever he goes, he picks it up. And he’s keen to support bodies, national and local, that seek to mobilize the vast public dismay at the needless trashing of the country, and to coordinate their efforts.
