4. Dog Poo Bags

 Check into litter-pickers' conversations anywhere - online, stopping their cars to chat, reading a newspaper - and dog poo bags are bound to come up. Designed to take dog toxins out of the environment, they very often end up in hedges where they catch the wind and tear and turn into wavy empty plastic. They get into ditches (we took 20 out in one famous day several years ago), under plants, behind things, or even on the ground alongside the dog pooh bin (go figure!). BUT!>>>

In the last few years around Wormington they've become vanishingly rare, because people really do care, and do understand the diseases that can be spread to other dogs and animals, and of course children and adults. And, of course, we have the free dog poo bags and the dog bin now (see here).

So today's find, in the tall weeds up by the Mill House gate on the Dumbleton Road, stood out, even though it was hidden.

Green dog pooh bag, Wormington, April 20, 2024. Why oh why oh why are so many dog pooh bags green or black - disappearing into the shadows or buried in the greenery of the countryside? Why aren't they brightly coloured, like the best of the crisp packets, which makes them stand out and easy to find? When the point is to get this stuff out of the environment, what is the point of wrapping it in camouflage?