Sophies SUPER Litter Picking group

30 March 2025

HUGE thank you to the people (and dog!) who came out this morning for our Surfers Against Sewage #BigSpringClean 💪 Some of the stranger finds included: A set of motorbike mirrors 🏍️ A national health insurance card 🏥 A Coca Cola piggy bank 💸 A pram 🍼 It’s wild to think that some of these items could have been sitting there for months, or even years! Super satisfying to leave this beautiful space so much cleaner than when we found it, and to have grateful passers-by thanking us for our efforts 💙

• 16 bags collected
• 6 pickers

30 March 2025

Around town, along the seafront, onto the beach, across the Beach Lawns, back into town and along the promenade towards Marine Lake. 13,605 steps! 5.73 miles!

• 12 bags collected
• 2 pickers

30 March 2025

🚯Jayne and Simon Cooper🚯 Simon out bright and early this morning. 2.5 hrs around Locking Rd., Bay Tree playing fields, Moor Lane railway bridge and the path beside the railway going towards Jehovah Witness building etc.

• 6 bags collected
• 1 picker

29 March 2025

What a fantastic community effort at today’s Big Spring Clean in Clarence Park! Really grateful to The Clarence for letting us commandeer one of their tables as our basecamp. A massive THANK YOU to everyone who joined us on such a sunny morning. It was wonderful to meet some new faces and even see families visiting the park jump in to help. The kids learned why picking up litter – and not dropping it – is so important. With the big guns on board like Adopt-a-Street members, Worle Lions Club, Sue from Dreams in Plastic, and Louise from A Ripple In The Sea on board, we tackled a whopping 42.3 kg of litter! Extra special shoutout to Warren Parker-Mills, Tourism Manager from Visit Weston-super-Mare, who must have stormed like a tornado along the Beach Lawns to Grove Park then back through town clearing litter like a seasoned pro! Some quirky finds? Eyelash curlers, a crisp packet from 1996, and a plastic jerry can. And yes, Mary’s magnet-like ability to find the weirdest trash and most alcohol bottles struck again! While food and drink packaging topped the haul, we're hopeful that the new red recycling bags coming soon will stop a fair amount of litter from blowing around. Watch this space for the next mission – tackling a Worle grot spot that the Lions have identified. Thank you all for helping make a difference for our precious environment! 💚🌍✨ #BigSpringClean #MillionMileClean #EndPlasticPollution #PeopleVSPlastic #SurfersAgainstSewage #PlasticFreeCommunities #westonsupermare #superweston #LoveWsM #SevernEstuarySpringClean #GBSpringClean

• 10 bags collected
• 12 pickers

29 March 2025

• 1 bag collected
• 2 pickers

29 March 2025

Rummaging in the undergrowth of the Italian Gardens. 🚯

• 3 bags collected
• 2 pickers

28 March 2025

🚯Carole Stevens🚯 Another litter pick today. This time at the Seemonster Garden. 2 bags full of cans, bottles and paper. I didn’t spot any bins walking round? The central seating area didn’t seem to have any? Maybe I missed them as I was too focused on litter picking. The newly installed seats look fab. Do you know if any bins are going to put in the park? If someone sits in this lovely location to have some lunch/drink and there is a bin by the seat they may possibly put their rubbish in the bin 🚮 🚯🤞 The only bin I saw was the other side of the perimeter fence.

• 2 bags collected
• 1 picker

28 March 2025

🚯Sally Walford🚯 Two days, two hours, two streets in Locking Parkland, three bags in total, my daughter also has a bag full 👍

• 3 bags collected
• 2 pickers

27 March 2025

Around our SUPER Marine Lake 🚯🫶🏼

• 4 bags collected
• 2 pickers

26 March 2025

🚯🚯The Great British Spring Clean: The last two days Simon’s been out in the local Worle area litter picking in the areas of Maltlands, footpath by the railway bridge, over the bridge, back along Locking Road to Mead Vale and down through Mead Vale to Mallard Walk. He also had an hour or so working on The Broadway, from the Tesco shop to the railway bridge, going towards the hospital. Time spent = approx. three hours, collected four and a half bags of mixed rubbish (which he put into local bins), recycling taken home and put in our own recycling facility.

• 5 bags collected
• 2 pickers

26 March 2025

🚯Dennis Michael🚯

• 11 bags collected
• 2 pickers

26 March 2025

Lovely sunset and bumped into many SUPER local residents. 🫶🏼🚯

• 6 bags collected
• 2 pickers

26 March 2025

🚯Carol and Garry🚯 Another glorious day. 3 hours litter picking. 5 x Keep Britain Tidy bags filled. Ellenborough Park East and by the parked cars along Ellenborough Park North and South. Then Walliscote Road to the town hall. To beach front via Carlton Street and along the prom to Melrose Carpark. The most rubbish was over the wall in Dolphin Square and motorcycle parking. I only cleared it on Monday. 🤬 It’s obviously too far to walk to the bin by Bistrot Pierre. Maybe they need their own bin? 🚯🚮🗑️

• 5 bags collected
• 2 pickers

25 March 2025

🚯Dennis Michael 🚯 Picked up these on our way to the dog groomers.

• 2 bags collected
• 2 pickers

24 March 2025

🚯Carole Stevens🚯 Hi Sophie 3 hours litter picking today is in the sunshine. 5 x Keep Britain Tidy bags filled. Mainly around Ellenborough Park North and South beach end. Usual rubbish by the parked cars being cans, bottles and take away cartons. There was also a large sheet of plywood in the park. Not sure if this is fly tipping or something to do with the team clearing Ellenborough Park? Photo attached with map showing location. Walked along beach lawns to the big wheel litter picking on route. The forecast is looking good. I’m trying to do minimum of 3 bags a day to fulfil my target of 40 bags 🚯🚮🗑️🤞

• 5 bags collected
• 1 picker

24 March 2025

🚯Nic Lanfear🚯 Two bags from Lonsdale Ave today for Great British Spring Clean, sorted and recycled when I got home. New bags collected from the HLC Library #hlclibrary #GreatBritishSpringClean

• 2 bags collected
• 1 picker

23 March 2025

🚯Liz Salmon🚯

• 1 bag collected
• 1 picker

23 March 2025

🚯Dennis Michael🚯

• 4 bags collected
• 2 pickers

21 March 2025

🚯 Vicky and Matt Powell🚯

• 3 bags collected
• 2 pickers

21 March 2025

🚯Emily Burnell🚯 We See Trees Community Nursery A productive couple of hours; litter picking in preparation for the first mow of the year scheduled for next week. Cleaning pots and repotting 20 trees. Note the beautiful buds on the orchard trees.

• 1 bag collected
• 1 picker