The RSPCA has received more than 200 reports about animals found severely injured, trapped, mutilated, choked or even dead from discarded litter in Surrey over the past four years.

It ranks Surrey among the counties with the biggest litter problems in the UK with a total of 213 reports to the RSPCA from 2020 to 2023.

Nationally, the RSPCA received an average of 13 reports per day last year from May to August.