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Apr 2016
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K is for Keeping Britain Tidy

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Episode 09: There’s nothing worse than seeing old carrier bags wedged in a plant, or chewing gum stuck to the pavement or a newspaper blowing down the street like tumbleweed in an old western movie. What's litter? And what can we do about it?

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