Hubcaps and other car parts were among several bags worth of rubbish collected from a major Dumfries and Galloway road on Saturday.
Chris Driscoll took it upon herself to tidy up a stretch of the A713 just outside Crossmichael.
And she was shocked by the amount of rubbish she picked up.
She said: “We litter pick regularly and it just doesn’t get any better.
“We don’t tend to start again until March but I drive in and out to Castle Douglas most days and I thought it was disgusting.
“Unfortunately, I drove it again on Monday and there were already three bits of rubbish.
“We tend to pick every four to six weeks from spring through to October – everyone has a mile from Townhead of Greenlaw up to the Ken Bridge Hotel – and most of us have a car part.
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“Even when I was litter picking they wouldn’t slow down and I was in hi-viz.
“I think there needs to be a campaign – there’s no signs up anywhere saying take your litter home.”
The litter picks started during the Covid pandemic in 2020 and while it helps remove rubbish which has been thrown, it isn’t long until the situation rears it’s head again.
Chris added: “It’s all over the country, we’re not unique in any shape or form, anywhere you go there’s rubbish. There’s lots of people who litter pick.
“There’s the road that goes up out of Crossmichael, towards Clarebrand. During Covid, people were sick of the number of Red Bull cans that had been thrown and they made a tree – but someone came and ripped it out.”