By Richard Marsden for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:07 BST, 8 April 2019 | Updated: 22:57 BST, 8 April 2019
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Saving the planet is all in a day's work for your average superhero.
So when Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman and Aquaman decided to join forces, the scourge of rubbish certainly took a heavy pounding.
Young litter pickers dressed as their heroes as they spent an afternoon clearing up an historic park.
Costumed children from the Little Collector Crew help rangers at Birkenhead Park, Merseyside pick up rubbish as the Mail's clean-up campaign gathers pace across Britain
The gathering was organised by eight-year-old Elizabeth Gadsdon as part of Tidy Britain Group's Great British Spring Clean, which is backed by the Daily Mail.
Elizabeth, who dressed as Wonder Woman, formed the group last year. It has 23 members who are all primary school children from around the Wirral.
The youngsters volunteer to help rangers at Birkenhead Park, which was the world's first publicly-funded civic park and has two million visitors a year. Elizabeth's mother Faith, 43, a firefighter, said of Sunday's litter pick: 'Elizabeth's group went out looking for small things such as plastic packaging and cigarette ends.
'They filled three bags in the end – one
