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Litter pick on way to work

Coventry,CV6 5BD

06 Aug 2018

23:00

Impromptu pick along the towpath The morning after the Plastic Patrol yesterday (Monday 6th August) - I cannot believe I still managed to find litter. It started with a plastic 4-can cover which led to me finding the small black bag that the litter lout probably held their cans in(!) - filled this bag up with bits along the way - luckily there wasn't much as the people picking on the towpath had done a fab job the day before :) Litter louts you will not get us down! We will prevail and you will learn to right your wrongs because everybody knows littering brings bad karma to he who litters!.

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Litter pick on way to work

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