Bournemouth's street cleaning team have a mammoth task on their hands in the Lower Gardens this morning.
Yesterday the town was packed with people enoying the first day of this year's air festival - but sadly many of them did not dispose of their litter when they left.
Reader Ian Rathbone sent us this footage and pictures on his walk through the gardens this morning.
@bournemouthecho the beach isn't the only place suffering from litter https://t.co/g8QJEUD2vx
— Ian Rathbone (@ianrathbone) August 19, 2016
@bournemouthecho one poor guy going round with a bin bag picking up all of the litter this morning pic.twitter.com/FSOp3HJvNF
— Ian Rathbone (@ianrathbone) August 19, 2016
One man, who was picking up litter for Bournemouth Council says that the litter issue started getting worse when the Friday night firework displays began this year.
He said: "Today's rubbish is not particularly bad. On Saturday morning, it will be even worse.
"Every now and then people destroy the flowers and smash bottles on the grass.
"It has been like this all through the summer holidays. During the summer, groups of people have parties and leave their rubbish behind.
"I've been to Southampton and if they drop litter there, you will get fined £80, but the council don't seem to use that same power in Bournemouth."
Darrel Harvey, a gardener for Bournemouth Parks, said: "We try and make it nice for people, but they don't always keep it like that.
"I had to fix one of the hanging baskets by the toilets, which somebody had broken off and completely take out a section of flower bed, where some people had rolled on the flowers or pushed each-other into it.
"People walk through and say that it's lovely, but they don't see how much work we have to do to restore it back to looking like that."
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