The next group litter pick, organised by AbiBinit!, will start at the Peachcroft shops on 11th September.

Their last group litter pick began near the Reynolds Way shops on Saturday 7th August.

I was working on that day, and cycling home I was surprised to see a lot of blue bags – far more than those on this picture.

The nearby garages will be demolished in the next month.

The Abingdon Bridge charity supported local young people in creating a wall full of murals on the other side of the garages. Only those murals made from tiles, signed by young people, have survived. The murals painted on boards did not survive. They got replaced by newer murals, painted on board, which have not survived.

There was a River & Riverbank clean-up today using the combined forces of Surfers Against Sewage, Abingdon Carbon Cutters, Abingdon Against Plastics and Kingfisher Canoe club, all coordinated by Anne Smart.

Anne Smart presented prizes for the three most unusual finds

(utility power block, ‘dollar’ lino and underwater power drill).

The river and river banks are now safer for wildlife.

This is a picture from the blog in May 2006. I believe that plastic ring can holders are still allowed in 2021, fifteen years later.

P.S Today’s blog post is dedicated to J.

Last year we bought reusable cups so that we could stop the growth of the the single-use coffee-cup mountain. This year the mountain of coffee cups is growing higher again.

During lockdown the coffee shops are only allowed to serve takeaways and that has increased the quantity of single-use cups.

Reusable cups are bulky and easily forgotten and we don’t always have them with us at the moment we visit: Coffee Aroma, Costa I, Costa II, Java, R&R, or Throwing Buns in Abingdon.