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The Raleigh Trash Trout on Little Rock Creek got a fourth clean-out this week, and the recent storms did not disappoint in filling the litter trap up.

“There was lots of trash this time around, after the big rains — tons of plastic bottles and Styrofoam containers,” said Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop.

Finds of particular interest include three tennis balls and a child’s shoe, Sam said.

Preston Ross III and Tyler Owens, of The Great Raleigh Cleanup, came out for the clean-out with Sam and Sound Rivers’ intern William Wallace.

Here are the totals from the Feb. 13 cleanout:

Plastic film

61 plastic bags

27 food wrappers

3 plastic film fragments

Hard plastic

61 bottles

1 cup

11 straws

10 cigarette butts

11 fragments

23 labeled other

Styrofoam

20 cups

11 takeout containers

20 pieces of packing material

125 fragments

Metal

1 drink can

2 other

2 fragments

Glass

3 bottles

1 fragment

Other Material

1 piece of fabric

5 pieces of sports equipment

8 other (lightbulb, needle, binkie, aluminum foil, wood)