Today’s haul of bottles left by receding flood water in the fields. This lot was left by Thurlaston Brook along just one side of a field, left there as the river finally decided to return to its original path between the banks after its brief invasion of the adjacent crops . I have been collecting quite a few plastic bottles, for recycling, during dog walks over the last few days, as the fields become merely soggy, instead of partially under water.
I don’t know whether most of the plastic is litter collected by the floodwater further upstream, which otherwise would have stayed in situ, or whether many of the bottles would have been thrown in the river anyway, eventually continuing on a trip to the sea-side had it not been for the floods depositing them onto the fields near our home. Maybe we shouldn’t assume that plastic affecting marine life is necessarily from ships or coasts.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
