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Hot Weather

Sheerwater,Woking,GU21 5QQ

17 Jul 2016

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After a hot weekend you'd expect there to be a lot of litter about. Our team went out on Monday evening and we were hard pressed to fill two bags with litter. Covering our usual area of the Sheerwater Recreation Ground and about 1km of the Basingstoke canal we found very little. A virtuous circle may be developing. Less visible litter means that people are less inclined to drop fresh litter. Less litter to pick up means that the council has time to be more thorough and rigorous. Less litter for us to pick up means that we can pay attention to the detail and extend our areas. Star find last night was two unopened cans of Polish lager stashed behind a tree along the canal. I left them outside the door of a deserving neighbour (who happens to be Polish). .

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Halloween pick

Litter pick around Sheerwater. Two bags of litter collected from the area around the Recreation Ground. I was dismayed to watch a car drive off in Devonshire Avenue at around midday, leaving a pool ...

Great British Spring Clean

Great British Spring Clean at Sheerwater Recreation Ground. We collected 10 bags of litter, a traffic cone, a pallet and a tea trolley. Other items of interest included a door handle, a kettle, a pai...

Blog

I'm using the event diary as a blog because there's nowhere else. Have been running Sheerwater Nitpickers for a bit over a month now. We've collected about 30 bags of litter in that time. What we'v...

Monday: The day after the night before

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 par...

Thursday Night Out

Regular Thursday evening nitpicking. 2 bags of rubbish collected. Bottles, cans, food wrappers, cigarette ends, only one pre-wrapped bag of doggie poo. Evidence of two evening picnics that had proba...

Nearby Groups

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TidyEastville
Organising clean-up for Eastville ward
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12 years
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Red Lodge Parish Litter Pickers
Red Lodge Parish Litter Pickers are a group which formed after Villagers suggested that the Parish should start a group to tackle the littering in the Village. Councillor Ian Thompson has organised the event with support from the Parish Council, it is to make the Village a more enjoyable place to live and bring the Community together to work as a team.
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55 years
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Billingham Tidy Up
Billingham and surrounding villages
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3 years
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RAYS (Reading Adopt Your Street)
RAYS has been funded by a grant from TESCO to provide equipment and by Reading Borough Council (RBC) to provide equipment storage, promotion of the RAYS project, support in building groups and insurance for RAYS volunteers. The RAYS project covers the whole of the RBC area and will support groups, individuals and schools/uniformed groups to adopt a part of Reading.
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8 years
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North Lanarkshire Dumpers
I am sick of going into the countryside and finding people have dumped there crap, ie Car Tyres, beds, car seats, cookers, and other crap. I would like to be able to stop this happening but I know that will be hard so I am happy to make it difficult for people.
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5 years
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Exeter Litter Pickers
I have just started this group, having been surprised to find there is no group in Exeter. I would particularly like to find people willing to help keep the 'Valley Parks' litter free.
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17 years
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Stanton Harcourt Litter Pickers
Formed by residents of Stanton Harcourt and Sutton with support from the parish council, we litter pick on the second Saturday or each month (to coincide with the Village Market) with an annual event encouraging widespread participation in March.
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6 years
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Sandbach Clean Team
The group now has over 100 members. It organises monthly litter picks, and members also litter pick in their own local areas.

An important part of our work is with young people. We have met with Junior schools, Brownies and Cubs, and talked about the reduction of litter and recycling.

We liaise with other environmental groups in the area, particularly those with similar aims to ours and we work closely with the local Borough Council.

We have a website:- www.sandbach-cleanteam.co.uk

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Action against Litter
Loftus and surrounding areas
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4 years
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Keynsham Wombles
We are part of Transition Keynsham and have a network of over 100 local volunteers collecting litter on a weekly basis in an area of their choice which could be the road they live in, a local footpath etc. If you would like to join us please email womble@transitionkeynsham.org
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