Barton RiverCare Community

Volunteer community of @River_Care in Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincs. Litter picking and river cleaning on the #Humber.

#KeepBritainTidy #LitterHeroes

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

A year of litter picking on the #Humber foreshore. These numbers don't include all the big stuff (tyres, wheels, bread trays, buckets) and so we can account for several tonnes of litter removed from the waterways of this SSSI site.

Thanks to the #litterheroes everywhere.

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

Today we took a fridge out of an SSSI. And also gathered up all sort of plastic junk. Not bad.

#LitterHeroes
#VolunteersWeek2023

[Adam Parker 🤟🤖 is in need of biscuits. @adamarchaeology]

@LegoLostAtSea and friends - @BartonRivercare found this weird thing today. Wooden plates with plastic straps covering a polystyrene block. No idea whatnits for. Any wisdom?

[RiverCare&BeachCare @River_Care]

Glorious weather yesterday morning for @BartonRivercare 's clean up along the Humber Estuary ☀️ After several high tides, the items collected were very diverse, inclu. a rugby ball, vape shoe, fishing rope & sanitary products 💚Next event is Sat 1st April at New Holland, Lincs 👀

[The Wombles of Hambleton @hambletonwomble]

Of course, what else when litterpicking, a huge jar of pickled red cabbage! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[RiverCare&BeachCare @River_Care]

18 hardworking volunteers met at Coldham’s Brook to show this chalk stream some love

Trimming back overgrown scrub to let a little more light into the Brook, we’re hoping to encourage more marginal vegetation to thrive here

A local project run by @AbbeyPeople @camcitco

[RiverCare&BeachCare @River_Care]

Boston RiverCare have kicked off their 2023 with a clean-up of the Haven💚 15 #LitterHeroes collected over 20 full bags of rubbish, a mannequin, flag & pole, welly, doll & traffic cones ⛳️This waste would have washed straight out into the North Sea, impacting marine wildlife 🐳

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

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Good news on the war against single use plastic. I've collected three this week from a single hedge on different days. Get rid 👌

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

Pleased to see this initiative available at @TheDeepHull

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

There's been some sort of explosion of polystyrene packaging in Barton. Thousands upon thousands of tiny plastic spheres are now getting walked and driven around town and washed down the drains in the heavy rain 😔

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

Post-Halloween cleanup around town this morning. SO MANY LOLLIPOP STICKS.

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

Shout out to all the litter picking organisers and coordinators out there getting stuff done behind the scenes week in week out. Y'all are #LitterHeroes

@River_Care @KeepBritainTidy

[TLDR News UK @TLDRNewsUK]

💧 The amount of water wasted every day by Thames Water is equivalent to running a hosepipe non-stop for 73 years, according to @GMB_union.

In other words, if you turned on a hosepipe when Queen Elizabeth became Queen, you'd have wasted less water than Thames Water will today...

[RiverCare&BeachCare @River_Care]

On Saturday you could find @BartonRivercare along the Humber estuary at New Holland 💙 6 #LitterHeroes cleared 9 bags full of very old and broken up waste including 28 plastic bottles, 19 cans, a tv, tyre and sofa cushions. Special shout out to Alfie who was an absolute ⭐ 👏👏👏

[RiverCare&BeachCare @River_Care]

The next @BartonRiverCare clean will be in New Holland on Sat 6th Aug 💙 Meeting at 10am at the end of Barrow Road where it meets Lincoln Castle Way, finish around 12pm. All equipment will be provided for free, but please bring your own gloves🧤Everyone is welcome! 💪Please share

[RiverCare&BeachCare @River_Care]

5 amazing #LitterHeroes from @BartonRiverCare collected 7 bags of waste along the Humber at Barrow Haven💙Always an interesting haul, they found old cans from the 1990s, 2005 & 2005! Other recovered items including 35 bottles, 20 cans, a chunk of boat, fishing lure & doorbell 🛎️!

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

Always love an old can we do. This morning had a 1990s(?) White Lightning and @OranjeboomUK lager from 2009 and 2005 respectively.

@CanMuseum

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

Great work this morning at Barrow Haven foreshore. All sorts of junk removed including a big ol chunk of boat and a doorbell!

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

We fully support the removal of this excess plastic from the environment! ✊️

[RiverCare&BeachCare @River_Care]

Himalayan Balsam is everywhere. Have you 👀 it along your local riverbank?
Watch our short video to find out how you can help stop the spread of this #invasivespecies
Disclaimer: Please do not purposefully pop the seed pods as this will spread the plants
#InvasiveSpeciesWeek

[Barton RiverCare Community @BartonRivercare]

This awesome story continues and now includes an interview with one of the ladies who deposited it!

[BBC Lincolnshire @BBCRadioLincs]

A message in a bottle has been discovered 56 years after it was sent! 😲 @seandunderdale reunited Tracey from @BartonRivercare, who made the discovery, & Jennifer, who wrote the message (& now lives in Australia! 🇦🇺)
Listen on @BBCSounds ➡️ https://t.co/jjMKdK6nVj