A 1980s chocolate bar wrapper and drinks cans from 1990 are among Wickford Wombles' discoveries.
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The Wickford Wombles group, which began in 2018, has more than 950 members and the team organises regular litter picking events around the Essex town. She said members take some of the items into schools to demonstrate how little they disintegrate over time."These things were picked up no more than 10 metres from a bin - there may not have been a bin there in 1988, but who knows.Image caption,The Wombles have already collected more than 2,000 glass bottles in litter picks in 2023 so far, and 353 in one event alone."We have the capability to dispose of this rubbish correctly - but we choose not to," Miss Menzies said.
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