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Litter pick on way to work

Coventry,CV6 5BD

20 Dec 2018

00:00

Last litter pick of the year perhaps... Decided to do a litter pick as little and often seems to work really well for the stretch that I walk along. Picked up lots of strongbow cans including the cardboard box they all came in. A few bags for life, little plastic bits and also, rather annoyingly, plastic polystyrene packaging nuggets which are now spilling out from a wasteland fenced off dumping ground full of shipping containers (yes multiple!) which some wonderful people have gone in and slashed a huge bag full of these delightful little 's' shapes and are now beginning to litter the towpath.

I have sent multiple reports to my Council about it - all completely ignored so I shall take to emailing my councillors and be sure to send photographic evidence with perhaps a couple of links to Plastic Pollution articles and videos! On the plus side, I was so happy to see that the litter bins I have been requesting along a main road (Foleshill Road) specifically at a couple of bus stops have been provided! It was on a stretch of around half a mile where there are no bins! So I'm glad we now have some for public use, litter louts beware! Shame on you now there are bins available! .

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