A one-year-old shamed a motorist in eastern China by picking up a plastic bottle that he threw out of the car and returning it back to him.

The video, shot in the city of Jining in Shandong Province on January 5, shows a plastic bottle being thrown out of a car window and landing on the sidewalk.

A toddler named Sun Jiarui saw it and picked the bottle up and returned it back to the motorist through the car window.

Sun's mum said: "Sun is used to picking up dropped toys for others. He might think the motorist dropped the plastic bottle accidentally, so he went to pick it up for him."