When Ormrod is out on the handsome cobalt expanses of Lake Windermere, she routinely paddles up to floating masses of rubbish to nudge them to shore and the nearest bin. “On the water it’s usually plastic bags and bottles.” “Lakeside we get disposable barbecues, tents, used vapes and weird stuff like abandoned footballs,” Ormrod explains of this unfortunate tide. Like many locals in the Lake District National Park – which extends across 2,000 sq km of Cumbria and is home to England’s highest mountain (977m Scafell Pike) and the country’s longest and deepest bodies of water ( Windermere and Wastwater, respectively) – Ormrod has become a have-a-go local litter picker. “You see all sorts bobbing about on the Lakes,” says Eleanor Ormrod, a 24-year-old nail technician and keen paddleboarder from Kendal.
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