An Oxford resident has blasted the amount of litter left at a beauty spot in Oxford.
Kate Tadman-Mourby, who works at Oxford University Press, shared images of the litter left at Port Meadow with the Oxford Mail.
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Ms Tadman-Mourby said “there are no excuses for this behaviour”.
The pictures show plastic bottles, bags, cans and crisp packets left on the both the grass and in the water at the meadow.
Ms Tadman-Mourby noted that because the bottles all appear to be soft drinks, the people who left the litter could either be “quite young” or teetotal.
This is not the first time the issue of littering has been raised in Oxfordshire.
In March, a voluntary litter picker called the amount of rubbish and fly tipping near a Tesco store in Bicester “appalling”.
Jamie Jessett, who runs the voluntary group Bicester Litter Pickers, took photographs of the “horrible” amounts of litter located between the Tesco Superstore and McDonalds on Lakeview Drive to document the issue. Read more about this here>>>
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This story was written by Sophie Perry. She joined the team in 2021 as a digital reporter.
You can get in touch with her by emailing: sophie.perry@newsquest.co.uk
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