FISH and chip wrappers and household rubbish were just some of the abandoned items found by Warndon Junior School pupils at a Worcester pond.
The clean-up around Lyppard Grange pond was carried out as part of the Rubbish? Sort It! Campaign, an initiative designed to clean up the county.
City MP Mike Foster and the Duckworth Trust were on hand to help the children, who, armed with gloves and litter grabbers, cleaned up the mess.
"Householders in Warndon Villages have been bagging up their rubbish, which included lots of used lager cans and just dumping them in the nearby hedge," said the school's headteacher Monika Wadson-Wilcox.
"The children were quite shocked about the mess left, but we will be recycling some of the abandoned papers and cans."
On a positive note, the children discovered a great crested newt in the Site of Scientific Interest.
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