Driving, voting, drinking alcohol; there is a lot one cannot do at the age of 15.

But for 15-year-old James King there is one particular age restriction he cannot bear and he has taken the issue all the way to the state government.

As a passenger in a vehicle last year, the year 10 student from Sydney witnessed a man throwing rubbish out of his window at a set of traffic lights.

"I recorded the license plate...and called the Environment Protection Authority hotline to ask how I could lodge [a] report. I was instructed to make the report online. This is when I read the age restriction," he said.