'Pea wet or gravy?' - the new bins sparking a debate among chippy tea lovers

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Do you prefer pea wet or gravy with your chippy tea? That is what new ‘ballot bins’ are asking Wiganers in a bid to stop cigarette ends being dropped on the floor.

The bins will ask tongue-in-cheek questions to get smokers in the town centres of Wigan and Leigh to put their butts where they belong – in the bin, not on the street.

For those unaccustomed to this local vernacular ‘pea wet’ is the water juice from mushy peas, and gravy is just gravy. These bins have been used successfully in other boroughs around Greater Manchester, with Mancunians choosing between Liam and Noel Gallagher or whether they call a certain bread format a barm or a muffin. READ MORE: Multi-millionaire businessman and rapist Lawrence Jones has already spent 10 months in jail after sex assault conviction, it can be revealed READ MORE : The rise and fall of rapist Lawrence Jones - from £700m wealth and Tory donor courted by politicians and royalty to jail This specific action in Wigan is targeted at cigarette butts, which quite often end up on the floor.

Keep Britain Tidy estimates that 66 per cent of all littered items are cigarette butts with the vast majority of all cigarettes smoked ending up on the floor.