Oi, you got a loicense to improve your surroundings!??
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Iirc, supposedly the volunteers were going a bit further than just cleaning up litter. As in, actually taking a backhoe to the river bed itself or something.
Still wouldn't put it past the the UK government at any level to pull this in response to any basic community cleanup though.
There's been many examples of people simply cleaning up trash "without permission" with actual charges sometimes following. UK & USA both.
They dredged the silt on the bottom of the river to extract buried garbage.
I cannot imagine a scenario where disturbed silt is worse then toxic runoff from decaying illegally dumped garbage, but I'm sure some moron can tell us about a species of tiny fish that'll be negatively impacted.