VOLUNTEER litter pickers have blasted people dropping rubbish as more than 50 kilos were collected.

A used nappy was among the staggering haul from the latest foray of the town’s Dawlish Against Plastic Litter Pick team.

Organiser Vanessa Ryley said the total ended up at a ‘stonking’ 51.55 kgs. Also among the pile was a working scooter.

Volunteers were able to separate 2.42kgs for recycling.

But Vanessa said: ‘If people had taken many of the items collected home and put them in their recycling boxes, it would have been a very different picture.’

A number of canisters, believed to be nitrous oxide, were also found.

Volunteer Angie Weatherhead thanked Dawlish Against Plastic for their regular litter picks and beach cleans.

After picking up nine kilos herself, she said: ‘I just wish the reason for doing them didn’t exist.

‘I really don’t care where people buy things to eat or drink or whether when circumstances are urgent people need to change little ones in laybys.

‘But I do care about where they throw the empty or half eaten take away or that nappy.

‘As part of Dawlish Against Plastic litter pick I picked up 9kg of rubbish in verges.’

Dawlish Against Plastic leads the picks on the last Saturday of every month from the Manor House starting at 10am.