collapse of silicon valley bank uk. you re watching bbc news. many of us might like to take a weekend stroll in a beauty spot but here in the uk too many of them are seemingly marred by litter. one group of volunteers says they ve filled hundreds of bin bags with the rubbish collected from a set of lakes in north warwickshire in the midlands. amy cole went to find out more. take a look at this. there are 7a bags of rubbish along here, including some larger items such as this children s trike. it was all collected over the weekend. but look, there are all these white bags of rubbish, too, and that was all collected five weeks ago. and it s still to be disposed of. what s going on? beavering away along lea marston lakes is a small army of litter pickers. well, they told me this was a rubbish story and they weren t wrong. it s everywhere. phil, you re up to your eyeballs in the stuff. where is it all coming from? we ve got our work cut out. it s coming, we feel, from upstr
collapse of silicon valley bank uk. you re watching bbc news. many of us might like to take a weekend stroll in a beauty spot but here in the uk too many of them are seemingly marred by litter. one group of volunteers says they ve filled hundreds of bin bags with the rubbish collected from a set of lakes in north warwickshire in the midlands. amy cole went to find out more. take a look at this. there are 7a bags of rubbish along here, including some larger items such as this children s trike. it was all collected over the weekend. but look, there are all these white bags of rubbish, too, and that was all collected five weeks ago. and it s still to be disposed of. what s going on? beavering away along lea marston lakes is a small army of litter pickers. well, they told me this was a rubbish story and they weren t wrong. it s everywhere. phil, you re up to your eyeballs in the stuff. where is it all coming from?
we ve got our work cut out. it s coming, we feel, from upstream because the river tame, when you go back up there, you know, it s really comes down and careers into these lakes and it comes onto this peninsula here. but it s at biblical proportions, as you can see. it s a worthy cause because of the nature, all the wildlife we get here. the tamworth cool that stands for collecting our own litter pickers got together a couple of years ago. over time, they say the density of rubbish has worsened and it s frightening. seeing all this rubbish, how does it make you feel? angry. very angry and very sad because if i was part of the wildlife that was living round here, it sjust shocking. i feel so sorry for it. lea marston lakes is managed by the environment agency, which the group says it s complained to on numerous occasions. well, the environment agency have a duty to protect these lakes from the detritus that and the pollution that s on the shore. as far as i can see, they are not doing