Meet the 'eco dog' - who loves picking up litter including plastic in the ocean.

Logie is a four-year-old Labrador who patrols the streets, seas and rockpools to fetch pieces of rubbish.

He has collected thousands of pieces of litter - from traffic cones and lime bikes out in the sea, to coffee cups, beer tops and food packets.

His owner, James Westgate, 34, explained how he noticed a lot of litter pilling up in their city Plymouth a few years ago.

He decided to do something about it alongside his feline friend when he spotted Logie's "obsession" with retrieving trash."

James said Logie picks up "at least" five pieces of litter a day, around 30 a week - just in the sea."

Ecologist James said: "Logie goes out and has fun picking up litter but we also get the satisfaction for cleaning up the shoreline."

"When I noticed how polluted Plymouth was with rubbish, I would go down to the beach and think 'okay Logie could pick this up - he's good at picking up balls and sticks'."

"When we tried it out, he loved it and brought it straight back."

"From a burger box to a bottle - within an hour we would have a whole bag of rubbish. He's obsessed!"

"Sometimes when I take him for a wee at end of the night, he'll come back with a can or bottle and appear from the darkness with something."

"He picks it up naturally on his own and brings it back nonchalantly - without me saying anything. "

"He's got a real passion for picking up litter!"

What makes Logie different from a human who picks up litter, James explained, is that he can get to those 'hard-to-reach' areas - such as rockpools or swimming spots.

James said: "It's hard to get to nooks and crannies in the sea to get to these locations - but Logie goes out swimming for it."

"Anyone can pick up litter on the coast, but he swims and paddles out to difficult to reach spots and collects trash."

"One time he tried to pull in a Lime Barrel bike when the tide was low - he was pulling at the handle bars and bless him he was trying - I had to go down and get that one to wheel it up!"

James shares videos of Logie across social media to raise awareness of the ever-increasing plastic and waste crisis - but also to encourage people to go out and litter-pick in their own areas.

He explained: "There is a huge problem with discarded fishing nets, boxes - especially in Plymouth, and microplastics are going to be as big a problem as climate change in the next year."

"There's a big push for change, as Plymouth is one of the strongholds for microplastics research - its on everyone's' minds. "

"The main purpose of my page is to raise awareness - we don't want plastic to be in the ocean!"

"And then everyone loves dogs, Logie has got a great drive - people seeing a dog having fun but also doing something good is going to make people think about litter in the sea a bit more - I hope my followers think about it more. "

"Even if I'm inspiring one person and educating them"

about the problem - that's great.

"It's a good angle to communicate the problems in an accessible way."