Joan Collins spends more and more time in New York because she hates the litter-strewn streets of her native London.

The 75-year-old diva admits graffiti and litter offend her "aesthetics and sensibilities" and she'd rather not have to deal with it on a daily basis.

But the fussy Brit has found another pet peeve in her adopted America - plastic bags.

She fumes, "They take 1,000 years to disintegrate (and) seals get them caught in their bellies."

Environmentally-conscious Collins, who insists on bagging her own groceries, admits her hatred for litter and discarded shopping bags, which she calls a "tragedy of modern life," comes from her youth.

She explains, "Growing up, if I so much as threw a candy wrapper on the floor, my family would give me a pilling off."

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