This plastic box is full of disposable cigarette lighters. I met a chap yesterday and outside his house there with dozens of containers of plastic rubbish. He has plenty more too, fish boxes and barrels full of it.   

Today I took Mike to see him. It is incredible. He, Dave, has collected all this in just three years on a short stretch of the Cumbrian coast. More photos in extras. There are thousands of plastic cotton bud sticks, boxes of the plastic strings off helium balloons, tubs of plastic toothbrushes, syringes, buoys, bits of nets, rope, box after box of plastic screw tops off containers and bottles, babies' dummies, shot gun cartridges, plastic tampon applicators, Kinder egg shells, all sorts of footwear, etc etc .

It's all rubbish that we flush away, discard unthinkingly, leave on the beach, or gets blown or dumped into the sea or into waterways. There is masses of it. A lot of it is from the fishing boats and creel fishermen sadly. And it's all plastic which will take hundreds of years to degrade. 

He hasn't kept it all but he has a record of how many plastic tubs and fish boxes he has filled over the three years. It certainly makes you wonder what else each of us can do.