Whilst she is giving blood & very brave I went to Costa Coffee 🫣. Not before picking up 236 #litter items in & around Church Street Carpark, #Stroud . Supporting Stroud District Council @StellaParkes #builtenvironment

A handy link to UK Litter Picking Groups - But are we over-reliant on and expect too much of volunteers to deal with the UK's litter crisis BBC South West Kim Leadbeater MBE MP google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

Pre #cinema #30secondlitterpicks in #Stroud & a regular grot spot viewing. Living the dream beforehand. Going to see #CivilWar in a #dystopian #America apparently.

644 #litter items mostly shredded fragments after #grasscutting along #KingshillRoad #Dursley today. Where's the logic? Normalises litter & acceptance by #LitterAuthority . Not good for nature. A repeat question coming to the environment committee Chloe Turner - Minch Stroud District Council Dursley Town Council

Yesterday's knee deep in #nettle hunt for truckers #litter & #poo bags. Despite 'positive nudge bins', got to hurl bags into the farest reaches of the #BerkeleyHeath lay-bys(2)🤔 Over 300 #litter items recovered & no stings!🤓 Supporting Stroud District Council Keep Britain Tidy TRUCKERS CLEANING UP BRITAIN

But seriously , what has nature ever done for us ? You know , apart from the air we breathe , the food we eat , making us healthier . . .

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#EarthDay

A respectable (for a litter picker that is 🤔) 231 #litter items tonight from #Dursley route 1. The picture is not #roadkill but a child's #bunny comforter & a mini egg find. #interestingfind Supporting Dursley Town Council

Went to the #Edge #Stroud & back with Carol on the A4173 this morning. 560 #litter items thrown from vehicles recovered from 200m of verges. Supporting Stroud District Council.

A carton of #urine & #lager in a #Stroud shop doorways. Yes I did pick, pour & bin 🤢 This is what we are faced with. Then a quick walk down to see clean-up work in progress at Fawkes Place 🫣 Supporting Stroud District Council Stroud Town Mayor

On the way out of #Liverpool stopped for a quick Starbucks UK. Then a 410 item #litterpicker from a 75m length of heavily #littered Edge Lane pavement. Then the #M6 & #M5 home to #Gloucestershire . Supporting PennyLaneWombles TRUCKERS CLEANING UP BRITAIN

Out #litter surveying this afternoon taking in over 19 points around @LidlGB #Stroud supermarket. 525 litter items bagged from the canal towpath, pavements, roads, hedges & woodland. Just about anywhere really. Supporting Stroud District Council CotswoldCanalsTrust Litter Free Stroud

#Litter survey today. 250 #litter items from the pavements around Sainsbury's #Stroud & 522 from a pit of doom in one pavement. It's suffer wind blown #plastics . What's around your supermarket?

Sun, views & #litter for me as I was passing #CoaleyPeakViewingPoint #Gloucestershire again. All the usual culprits picked up #plastics McDonald's UK stuff, #alcohol #condoms & #Wetwipes from this scenic but #ASB #dogging hotspot. 309 litter items Stroud District Council @Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

You remember the #pitofdoom in Dudbridge Hill Road #Stroud . Well I was back in this environmental disaster area today. 237 #plastic #gloves + 285 #foodonthego wrappers & bits. How are we going to resolve this reoccurring pollution Stroud District Council Chloe Turner - Minch Sainsbury's Esso GB

1.7 billion pieces of plastic are thrown away every week in the UK!
The Big Plastic Count figures are in and it’s worse than I expected. Companies need to reuse plastic which already exists or better still, not use it at all. Greenpeace UK Surfers Against Sewage #plasticfree

3 hrs & 2 #A38 lay-bys #Buttyman & #BurgerVan & 152 & 421 #litter items. Didn't tackle any more due the #aroma of #farmers #muckspreading in the area. This has been absorbed into my skin & clothes to give her another smell to complain about 🤢 Supporting Stroud District Council TRUCKERS CLEANING UP BRITAIN.

195 #litter items bagged tonight on a short trot out on my #Dursley route 1 that keeps on giving daily. Now going to watch a programme about the clean streets of #Japan to cheer myself up. #Oyasumi .