Today’s haul of bottles, deposited in a field by receding flood water adjacent to a brook. I have been collecting quite a few plastic bottles, for recycling, during dog walks over the last few days, as the fields become merely soggy, instead of partially under water. I don’t know whether most of the plastic is litter collected by the floodwater further upstream, which otherwise would have stayed in situ, or whether many of the bottles would have been thrown in the river anyway, eventually continuing on a trip to the coast had it not been for the floods depositing them onto the fields. Maybe we shouldn’t assume that plastic affecting marine life is necessarily from ships or coasts.
