Mountain Bike Rider

IN SEARCH OF THE TRASH-FREE TRAIL

You’re never more than six feet from a piece of litter. Or is it a rat? We’re not sure, but what we do know is that rubbish is pretty much everywhere around the globe, with chemicals and microplastics found in the remotest spots, such as the Antarctic. Hell, they’ve even found litter on Mars – not an old Lucozade bottle like usual but a thermal blanket, spied by the NASA Perseverance Rover. The fact that the Perseverance dropped the litter in the first place on entry isn’t important, what is annoying is that it didn’t have the capacity to pick it up again afterwards.

But what about back on earth, and

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