River Worth Friends beat their peronal best!

​Earlier this month when we were out litter picking and clearing other rubbish, we collected a grand total of 82 bags of litter plus many other items. This is now our new personal best.
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​We started in the morning at Postman’s Walk, always a top spot for litter. The path from the sorting office up to Mohair St was particularly littered. We were especially dismayed by the amount of fly tipping from the properties above the banking adjacent to the path. All in all we collected 20 bags plus various junk.

Twenty bags plus various rubbish were removed for collection by the council.

In the afternoon a group of stalwarts decided to tackle some particularly annoying fly tipping at a different location that we have had our eye on for a few weeks. Someone had thrown a loads of black bags of rubbish from a bridge into the river channel. On investigation it appeared that many of the bags contained cannabis farm paraphernalia.  A group in waders worked below whilst Barry and Christine hauled the bags up with a grappling hook, hard work for Barry who was starting to flag when a kind passer by lent a hand until the last bag was hauled up. Hats off to our anonymous helper!
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The total number of bags at this location was 62. So all in all we removed 82 bags and loads of other crap in about four hours, not bad and well done to all involved.

We were a bit knackered at this point!

A theme of the day was fly tipping, which seems to be becoming a major blight on the local environment. One thing that we don’t understand about fly tippers is why they have to tip into inaccessible areas. Take the bridge tipping for example, surely it would be easier for them to just dump by the side of the road instead of having to throw it over quite high railings, it would certainly be easier for us to clear if they did so. We wonder if it’s partly trying to hide their guilty secret. Perhaps any fly tippers reading this, which I doubt there are, could enlighten us.

Completely unrelated! We also spotted signs of otter under the bridge, an otter spraint and prints. So despite man's messing with the environment nature is still hanging in there!