(57) The invention relates to sweepers with particular reference to a ground sweeper having a first sweeper brush of relatively large diameter, a second sweeper brush of relatively small diameter, drive means adapted to drive said first and said second sweeper brush in an opposite sense whereby the said second sweeper brush serves to contact the surface to be swept and wherein the first sweeper brush serves to compliment the second by directing larger objects onto the second brush for collection and transport to said receptacle. The invention particularly describes a manually propelled sweeper in which the first sweeper brush is constructed and arranged whereby beer cans, paper cups and the like are swept into the or onto the second sweeper brush for entrainment and subsequent transport to a collection receptacle.