More Rubbish

More Rubbish 

Over the winter months I've noticed a steady accumulation of discarded cans and bottles along one of my regular routes, the stretch of Lancaster Road that arrows through Out Rawcliffe to Pilling. As this is my local portion of NCN 90, it doesn't give a good impression to those cyclists who might be passing through the countryside on a ride along the Lancashire Cycleway. So on Sunday afternoon I went out on my bike armed with a plastic bag and stopped along a stretch of the road to pick up some of the offending items. It's something I do now and again. Here's the result of my endeavour - there's 26 cans in the photo.

Bear in mind that this is the only the result of me stopping along a two mile stretch of the road, and that there were seveal others cans (and plastic bottles) that I didn't stop to pick up.

The dispiriting aspect of all this is the knowledge that even if the verges and hedgerows were blitzed of litter, within a week there'd be plenty more items there.