HELPING TO CLEAN UP OUR COAST AND COUNTRYSIDE
Some litter I find is a little more unusual be it very old, amusing or sometimes part of a news story. The pictures show a pair of glasses and some false teeth I found on the same day at different locations! The Rowntree Smarties tube lid is something which has been in the sea for a long time (it had the letter L on it for those of you who remember the lids!) and the Tip Top ice pop was in the sea even longer as it has the price of 2d still printed on it which puts it pre 1971 when our currency went decimal. The Quatro drink can which I found rusting away in woodland ceased production in the mid 1980's. The car keys I found at Dunster Beach belonged to a hire car company in Lincolnshire. The driver had spent hours looking for them 2 days earlier and had to get the RAC to unlock his car and start it so that he could get back to Taunton. He was grateful that I found them so that he didn't have to pay £200 to the hire company for them! The paint found on North Hill was a fly tipping incident was annoying but I did remove them and dispose of. The memorial plaque is the most interesting of all as I discovered it on Porlock Weir beach and was part of a memorial bench washed away fro Arley Arboretum and Estate in Worcestershire and made it's way down the River Severn to where I found it. This story made many news items so if you Google 'Keith Hunt Memorial Bench' you can read all about it!
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