Sentence examples for items of litter from inspiring English sources

Over 330,000 items of litter were collected; 7% of it was bathroom waste, which included almost 16,000 cotton buds.

As we picked our way along the scummy shore, Niccals pointed out individual items of litter and debris poking out of the plastic mulch – a cigarette lighter here, a fridge there – and explaining how the island was held together by oil-slick gloop.

In Scotland, almost 500 volunteers cleaned 35 beaches, collecting more than 20,000 items of litter.

Almost 4,500 volunteers took part in the weekend event, cleaning 335 beaches and collecting 247,914 items of litter - equating to almost 1,741 pieces for every kilometre surveyed.

Surfers against Sewage, a group representing tens of thousands of UK water sports enthusiasts, had been sending identifiable items of marine litter back to manufacturers as part of its "Return to Offender" beach litter campaign.

She said: "MCS has provided evidence in the form of our latest Beachwatch report which highlights the increase in balloon litter over the years - we now see an average of 9.5 items of balloon litter per kilometre on UK beaches.

How this is done, however, may require more objective measures such as through the litter and graffiti items, or items for a specific type of litter such as the presence of empty alcoholic beverages (bottles or cans).

The algebraic formulae required to measure performance, representing such obscure factors as the average size of litter items, have been widely lampooned.The Commons committee was most angered by the fact that the Treasury declined to send anyone along to face a grilling by the MPs.

In a study of litter in a typical housing project, 35 percent of the items identified were Buckfast bottles.

The only item shared between the two tools that had slightly lower reliability (moderate agreement) was 'presence of litter'.

The charity said there has been a drop of almost 4% in the amount of litter found on UK beaches between 2015 and 2016, with 6,000 volunteers collecting 268,384 items.