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Shame on Lancing litter louts
Published Date: 07 July 2009
TWO children collected sacks of rubbish during a one-mile walk from their home to illustrate the dangers of litter.
Davies and Scarlett Goddard collected the rubbish as part of their RSPB Wildlife Action Awards.

Walking from their home in Osborne Drive, Sompting, to Lancing library, in Penstone Park, eight-year-old Davies and six-year-old Scarlett managed to fill four bin bags with litter.

Their mother, Nic Goddard, said: “It’s a lot of litter, it really is.

“I think we had something like 50-plus drinks cans from things like lager, beer and Coke.

“I stopped them from picking up cigarette butts, but there were hundreds of them and huge amounts of broken glass.”

Recycling

As part of their Wildlife Action Awards, Davies and Scarlett have to create displays, write to their local MPs and try to raise awareness of an environmental issue in the local press.

Earlier this year they created a display at Lancing library with pictures and drawings of litter and they created another display from this trip’s collection.

“We scattered the litter around our garden and they took a picture of it, and now it’s all in my recycling,” said Mrs Goddard.

“They’ve made a display telling people about what they found.”

Scarlett and Davies Goddard clear up the mess

Bins

She said part of the reason Davies and Scarlett wanted to do the litter collection was because they were concerned about wildlife.

“It’s just something they’re passionate about,” she said.

“We have walked to the library a lot and my son’s always said, ‘Why do people do that, mummy?’

“I think they’d want to do it again, but, on our way back, we saw a Coke can which had obviously been dropped in between our going and coming back.

“My son said he felt like he’d made a difference and there were four fewer bags of litter on the street. It’s sad to see it filling back up again.

“I just wish people would take it home with them or use bins.”