SIX-year-old Hannah from Derril is disappointed with whoever has been littering near her home, and is taking a stand.

She said she wants to ‘make the world a better place’ and that is why she has been out with her mother, Tanya Northcott, on her very own litter pick.

Hannah and Tanya walk along the back lanes near their home regularly but have become increasingly concerned with the number of drinks cans they have seen strewn in the hedges and verge along one short stretch of road.

Tanya said: “We do little litter picks ourselves all the time. We always make sure we have a bag with us when we go out for a walk, but of course the one time we went out without a bag we found the most drinks cans we have ever seen just thrown away at the side of the road.

“Hannah wasn’t best pleased so we went home and got prepared. We got our boots on, grabbed some bags and went out and bought a special litter picker because some of the cans were torn, with sharp edges and would have been too dangerous to pick up with our bare hands — imagine what damage they could have done though if a child had stood on one of them as they walked along the verge!

“It really was unsightly to see so much litter and made us quite mad.”

Hannah and Tanya ended up collecting several carrier bags of cans and Tanya said the bags had been ‘bursting at the seams’.

The majority of the cans they found were either energy drinks or alcohol. Hannah said she couldn’t understand why adults would litter their drinks cans when children like her wouldn’t. However, she was most concerned about the environmental impact the litter was having. When asked why littering was bad, Hannah told the Post: “Because it is making the earth sad and the trees fall down.”

But Hannah said she will keep litter picking with her mother: “Because I want to make the world a better place.”

Hannah and Tanya want to encourage more people to help out by holding their own litter picks but added that there should be no need for it and people should ‘just take their rubbish home and put it in the bin’.