Louth RiverCare volunteers met on May 22.
A group of 6 enthusiastic Litter Heroes set about tidying up a stretch of the Louth Canal, from Riverhead out to Ticklepenny Lock on Saturday, May 22.
Louth RiverCare is delivered by Keep Britain Tidy, a national environmental charity, in partnership with Anglian Water, and supported locally by the Louth Navigation Trust.
Having postponed many clean ups due to Covid-19 restrictions, the group hadn’t held a litter pick event since October last year.
A volunteer in action.
On May 22, they removed six full bags of waste pollution, alongside a variety of old discarded objects, such as a paint tray and pram handle.
Thoughtless drivers are putting lives and wildlife in danger and blighting the countryside by discarding tons of rubbish.
To cope with the tsunami of trash, special teams from Highways England risk their lives collecting thousands of bags of litter from roadsides.
Now the agency – which looks after the nation s motorways and A-roads and carries out litter picks nearly every day – has backed the Great British Spring Clean, with a plea for selfish motorists to take their rubbish home and stop using verges as a tip.
During the Great British Spring Clean last year, Highways England collected 12,000 bags of litter.
In the Midlands, more than 70 sacks, as well as a mattress and a 1,000-litre oil tank, were collected from the A38 in Staffordshire.
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