Who’ll clean up if I don’t?

ETHAN HEAD, ten, lives with his parents, Laura, 35, a teaching assistant and Lee, 45, a salesman in Sudbury, Suffolk.

ETHAN: I like my town being clean and I hate seeing rubbish. But if I don’t clean up, no one else will. Four years ago, I looked out at the park opposite my house and I got so cross I decided to clean it up.

I have my own litter grabber. I spend two hours most weekends clearing the park. I can easily fill three dustbin bags. It’s so heavy I wrote to a local factory to ask for a trolley to load the rubbish in.

I would like to invent a bin that would smile and say ‘Thank you’ when someone puts rubbish in.

DAD LEE: We are so proud of Ethan. He was just six when he told us he was sick of seeing rubbish everywhere and wanted to do something about it. We never guessed he would still be going strong four years later.