The charity Keep Britain Tidy called on people to collect up bands dropped by postal workers after a survey claimed they were found on 6% of UK streets.
Some 13,000 of them were handed in as part of its Big Tidy Up campaign.
Now the charity plans to hand them back to Royal Mail in a giant envelope outside its London headquarters.
My son collected 100s and took them back to the Hornsey post office. The staff werent overly thankful and I have a nagging feeling that the bag went in the bin after we left. Thankfully he now seems to have outgrown the rubberband obsession and we can now proceed down Lausanne Road at normal walking pace.