If you walk out of your front door what can you find on a twenty minute plog?
Crumpton Oaks Cider Co. medium cider in a yellow pint can.
Stella Artois cardboard wrapper for a multipack of 4 cans of lager.
Heineken Original lager in a green 440ml can.
Vive zX Cola zero sugar 330ml can
Coca-Cola zero sugar 330ml can.
Lickedy LiPS Sour Candy Drink 60ml plastic bottle.
Fanta Orange 330ml can.
Coca-Cola 330ml plastic bottle label.
Pepsi-Max 330ml can.
Oasis Citrus Punch 500ml plastic bottle, lid missing.
Boost Tropical Berry isotonic sports drink 500ml plastic bottle.
Carrick Glen Still Natural Mineral Water 500ml plastic bottle.
Volvic Touch of Strawberry mineral water 750ml plastic bottle.
Walkers pickled onion Monster Munch 20g plastic and foil crisp packet.
Mars Skittles Fruits sweets 136g plastic pouch.
Maynards Fizzy Fish Jellies sweets 130g plastic packet.
Dairylea Dunkers plastic film lid from a plastic snack pot.
Nestle Blue Riband milk chocolate bar plastic wrapper.
Two Werthers Originals plastic sweet wrappers.
Gummi Zone Pizza jelly sweets 21g cardboard wrapper.
McDonald’s McCafe takeaway cup and lid, paper based.
McDonald’s cup. McDonald’s clear plastic cup lid.
Blue and white paper based straw.
White paper based straw.
Burger King Flame-Grilled Whopper paper wrapper, 28 by 38 cm.
McDonald’s paper receipt (from shop 15 miles away).
McDonald’s breakfast wrap card packaging, 2 pieces.
McDonald’s brown paper bag ripped into pieces.
McDonald’s hash brown white paper bag.
Aldi Cowbelle ready to drink iced coffee. Plastic cup with card wrapper. Plastic and foil coated lid for the cup.
One banana skin.
One rectangular clear plastic lid from a takeaway container. Small fragments missing where it is broken.
Tesco Granola Slices paper bag with transparent window.
Mars Duo plastic wrapper (2 x 39.4g).
Cardboard strip from takeaway package with the instructions “Rip Open Here And”.
McVities Lemon Meringue flavoured snack bar plastic wrapper.
A fragment of a shredded blue Monster energy drink can.
Lidl milk chocolate oaties plastic wrapper, 300g.
A small red ribbon.
8 fragments of plastic and card packaging.
A small, red, heart shaped piece of plastic.
Elfbar 600 disposable pod for a vape, inner and printed outer plastic wrappers. Very dirty.
Four cigarette butts.
A turquoise plastic cigarette lighter. Broken into several fragments from being run over.
Part of the cellophane wrapper from a packet of cigarettes.
Two small self-sealing plastic bags with a green stripe.
A small 1cm cubed piece of foam.
Eight dirty tissues or pieces of kitchen roll.
Waitrose King Edward potatoes, 2.5kg plastic bag.
Four glass bottles broken into fragments.
Two of these were found below a bridge across the river. Presumably they had been thrown off and had broken on the brick walls below. Cattle graze the river meadow right up to the bridge and there was a cow pat just a few feet from the glass fragments.
The other two were on the grass verge and had been crushed when the grass was mown. By the looks of it they had been run over by the tractor.
And yes, it does take a long time to pick up all those little bits.
A plastic wrapper for a toilet pull handle, 20cm.
5 cellophane wrappers stapled together.
A piece of silvered paper.
A paper lollipop stick.
A 5cm length of velcro.
11 fragments of plastic.
The decayed remains of the plastic inner of a Rubicon tetrapak 1 litre drinks carton.
A very dirty cellophane wrapper from a cigarette packet.
A cigarette butt.
A dirty old plastic soft drinks bottle with part of the base missing, presumably mown off.
The remains of three dog poo bags. One black, one blue and the knotted top of a white bag.
Discarded packaging from fishing accessories found on the river bank.
Card packaging for barbless carp feeder hooks.
Berkley Sick Braid x8 fishing line cardboard box.
Fragment of cardboard hook packaging, burnt on edges.
Most likely these are all from cars.
Black plastic seal or trim, 70cm long.
Two pieces of black plastic trim, each 30cm in length.
5 small black plastic fragments
The corner of a plastic/foam sheet.
A plastic wet wipe.
A small dirty piece of green cloth.
A dirty piece of rubbery feeling material.
Clear plastic food packaging, 15cm long.
Two fragments of clear plastic drinks bottles.
Two pieces of plastic packaging.
Nine small fragments of paper or plastic packaging.
A piece of white paper, possibly from a paper bag.
A rectangular piece of corrugated card, 16cm long.
A partial paper business card.
Small fragments of corrugated card, a sweet wrapper and a paper takeaway bag.
Four plastic flower pots pulled from a muck heap on the edge of a field, all damaged. Three are hard plastic (21cm) orange flower pots, the other is soft black plastic (17cm).
Flower pot saucer, hard orange plastic, for 18-20cm pots.
A short walk from my house on any day of the year produces a similar amount. The contents may vary, but the local footpaths, verges, ditches and hedgerows yield a never ending supply.