A local litter warrior has been so 'successful' in her rubbish collections around Midsomer Norton, she has been helped by a local company to buy a special cart to bring home the recycling.

Sharon Adams started her crusade against litter during the last lockdown.

She started small - litter picking around Somervale School's sports field. But it was clear that the amount she collected was phenomenal and once she started being vocal about the large amounts, she saw that there were other people who also felt community minded and were out picking.

But still Sharon found that she needed more ways to carry the recycling she had collected and so she approached a local company which agreed to fund a small cart (bought locally too) which she now uses to bring pick up to ten bags of recycling every outing.

She has cleared up all manner of litter; from ancient crisp packets to spools of video tape, and is now appealing to other people in Midsomer Norton to appreciate what a beautiful town they live in and help keep it litter free.

She told Nub News : " I became frustrated that I was putting so many recyclable items in the bin that I had the idea to have a trolley to bring these items home with me and put out with my household recycling.

"I approached a company for some help and they very kindly gave me the funds. It has proved to be so useful that I recycled ten carrier bags this last week alone."

Sharon is using her permitted outdoor exercise time to do pick litter using equipment provided by the town council.

The items that she has collected are as varied as they are puzzling, and sometimes pretty disgusting.

During her picks she has found, a used She Wee (really) a leather jacket, a pair of jeans, a food processor, an unopened can of cider together with the matching, branded pint glass, an unspooled video complete with case and used disposable barbecues, empty ice cream tubs, burger and sausage packaging, empty (and expensive) aftershave bottles, deodorants, aerosols and glow sticks.

Sharon added : "Before anyone leaps to the conclusion that it is just youngsters who are responsible for this mess, I also found a carrier bag with what appeared to be three or four soiled nappies in (I didn't check too closely).

" My oldest find so far has been a crisp packet from 2012."

Sharon told Nub News there are several types of local litter bugs which she has categorised into the following types:

" The disperser - they take off the lid of something, throw it away, removes the label and throw it away, drinks some, not necessarily all, (some plastic bottles are unopened) and then that too gets junked.

" Hansel and Gretel - they buy a multipack pack that has individually wrapped items in such as cake bars or sweets, tear open the packet and throw the tear-off bit away.