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Dumbarton litter pickers' plea after finding a mountain of waste on shoreline

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Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Litter pickers made a plea to the public after discovering hundreds of tampon applicators strewn across Dumbarton’s shoreline.This shocking photograph shows some of those found during beach clean-ups over the past few months.A survey of local shore litter found flushed waste including cotton bud sticks, plastic applicators and wet wipes.Zoe Weir of Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore said: “We surveyed local shore litter in April 2019 and found that flushed waste was a bad problem, which was not surprising as we were near a storm overflow pipe.“We think many people do not realise that flushed litter washes into the river when sewage grids are overloaded during high.

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