LITTER

Great news! There is so much less litter in Easingwold.

Local residents have been quietly and effectively picking up litter. I do a few sacks a week since the first lockdown and despaired that there was so much. Recently I have noticed that there is much, much less.

Much appreciation to everyone doing their bit. Grass verges are green again. Plastic bottles and aluminium cans will not get shredded in mowers and cut the feet of wild animals. Baby birds will not get fed tiny bits of plastic swelling their stomachs and starving to death. String, wire and worse will not entangle feet and beaks of creatures. Glass will not cut unsuspecting creatures. Perhaps plastic wrappers will not be picked and swallowed by sheep and cattle….