Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
If the weekend weather is good (which it is promised to be) then there will be plenty of fresh litter from weekend activities in the park. Goody... from 6pm starting at the solitary bench in the park. It was quite a pleasant weekend so I expected there to be plenty of things to pick up. Not so. It was slim pickings tonight. There was a light scattering of cans and bottles as usual, a rash of bumper sized crisp bags and not much else. I guess everyone was at home watching the football all weekend. Picked over most of the park and the alleyway at the back of Spencer Close and then onto the canal towpath, eastwards tonight. That done I did some extreme nitpicking in the alley between the Parkview community centre and the daycare nursery. Mainly cigarette butts, hundreds of 'em. Back to the park bench to pick up the freshmeat - a jelly baby bag.
Star finds were a very large size 12 flip-flop sandal by the canal, a tiny toy frog outside Parkview and two really heavy doggy pooh bags - must have been a couple of Great Danes out for a walk. Two bags of litter collected. One bag of fly-tipped litter reported to the council for collection (fat chance). .
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