Hello Curry Rivel!

For today's litter pick we went to Curry Rivel. We saw a lot of rubbish on the way there, but couldn't pick it up as we were in the car and it was quite a busy road. We were thinking about maybe doing a cycling litter pick to collect the rubbish along that road, as it was just so dirty.

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We parked our car just inside the village – but started our litter pick heading out of the village as we had noticed some bottles and cans just before the village sign and we thought we would get those first. We then headed down into Curry Rival – we turned down a small lane as we thought it would provide us with a loop round to the garage (Dad was wrong) but it did lead us down to a nice park – there was a variety of different equipment and it was in a nice open location. I had a few goes on the zipwire 😁 We found lots of little sweet wrappers scattered around, and also some bigger food wrappers - but when we got to the little carpark near the park we found a huge amount of rubbish. Alcohol cans, deodorant cans, fast food wrappers, bags - just a mess - it looked awful. It took a little while but we managed to clean it all up.

There were lots of little things through the main part of Curry Rivel but not too much in the way of big items, but the larger items started appearing again shortly after we passed the garage.

We turned around after about an hour of walking, our bags were getting quite full now! Heading the other way we found quite a few cans, tucked into the bottom of hedges and also on top of the wall by Parsonage Farm.

We found a dog poo someone had left by someones drive entrance - Dad picked this one up as I'd drawn the short straw last week in Cotford!

We found a pair of gardening gloves 1 on the pavement and 1 in a garden - we figured these were someones who probably left them on the wall and they had fallen off - so we picked them up and put them back on the wall - a lady then came out of the house opposite to say they were hers - I think she was concerned we were going to throw them away! Lucky we had made the right decision!

Overall we did about 4km in 1hr 33 and got 2.12g of recycling and 4.22g of rubbish. We measured these on the new scales that Dad bought to replace the ones we have somehow misplaced!