[Madhatter]

Our council does a lot to try to clear up town centre rubbish, mainly because the town council won't let the borough council get away with it. When the borough refused to provide sunday street cleaning, to clear up after saturday night so that it was clean for sundays tourists, they started hiring someone themselves.
The town council got praised for it, so the borough decided to start cleaning on a sunday.
I think it can go too far, such as using the towns cctv to spot people dropping cigarette butts, but people dropping happy meal boxes then yes, especially when there's a bin.

I often pick the rubbish up in the street and bin it because the flats grounds don't have a boundry fence. It blows straight in to the flower beds.
I've also gone out on a saturday morning wombling as part of the national spring clean event in the town. I am proud of our little town.