For Great Big Green Week we teamed up with the Final Straw Foundation and the Brook Meadow Conservation Group for a clean up of the River Ems.

In just three hours our fabulous group of 15 volunteers collected a massive 91.90kg of rubbish.

Their haul included:

• 45 plastic bottles

• 54 glass bottles

• 75 aluminium cans

• 15 dog toys

• A car bumper, household door and large gas cannister

• A kettle, birthday party debris and a bag of used nappies!

A huge thank you to these volunteer heroes who have helped clean up a globally rare chalk stream. The site at Brook Meadow Nature Reserve is home to legally protected kingfishers and the shy water vole - Britain’s fastest-declining mammal.

By removing this 91.90kg of rubbish, our volunteers have helped a fragile ecosystem, as well as prevented a wave of rubbish reaching our ocean.

If you’d like to get involved with future beach or river clean ups with the Final Straw Foundation, please email volunteer@finalstrawfoundation.org for more information.