The waste warriors tidying the south

"One morning I just got up and started and we've been doing it ever since."

Frank Roberts has been getting up at 05:00 GMT and picking up litter in and around the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset for the past 10 years.

He was inspired by the Clean for the Queen campaign in 2016, which encouraged the British public to go out and pick up rubbish ahead of the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.

Remembering that time, Roberts said he bought 40 of the symbolic purple bin bags linked to the initiative.

Since then he has teamed up with hundreds of volunteers to form the group known as Litter-free Purbeck, he has won a BBC Make a Difference award in honour of his work and has been described by environmentalist Chris Packham as a "litter-picker extraordinaire".

Speaking from the side of the road, while on one of his early morning rounds, Roberts said: "The type of litter we've picked up over the past ten years has changed slightly, there's a lot of fast food litter here."

Looking through the bags that he and his team have gathered before the traffic in the area gets too heavy, he points to plastic from damaged vehicles, including hub caps and learner plates.

"We found a ladies bra this morning and all sorts of different things like that," he said.

He added that they also found industrial waste, aluminium cans, gas canisters - the kinds used to fill up party balloons - and about 80 golf balls.

Roberts said they planned to take the balls back to the nearby golf course and would ask for a donation for the rubbish bags.

He said he believed only "a very small percentage" of people intentionally drop litter and shared how on some instances he has spoken to people who he had caught littering but admitted that they can get "aggressive".

"I don't want confrontation, I just want people to take their litter home," Roberts said.

Remaining stoic in his efforts, he said: "I encourage my guys who help me [with] 'OK in a few days there will be litter where you've just picked it all up'. But don't get disheartened and we continue."

In Hampshire Louise Lee has been surrounding herself with rubbish in her home.

Speaking from her front room in Southsea, Lee says she has become the "designated recycling facility" for her friends.

Using the items that are left with her, or litter that she finds on the beach, she transforms it into jewellery, under the name Trash Panda.

Going through her materials she jangles some bottle caps that she was given by a local pub, that she plans to make into brooches.

She points to broken jewellery, coffee pods and leather from old sofas, all of which she plans to use.

"The most weird one is probably, bouncy castles and inflatables," Lee said.

"It's the sort of thing that you might not even think could have a second life as something."

She said she receives "off-cuts" from Isle of Wight firm Inflatable Amnesty that collects inflatables and creates bags.

Squeezing into her workshop in her back garden, again surrounded by materials and tools, Lee is able to quickly fashion a necklace out of a piece of bouncy castle, some armbands and a rubber ring.

She said: "There is a real movement of people, especially in Southsea, who are looking for things that are more sustainable and people who are making things as well, so its a great community."