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.
The Friends of Eastfield Park (FoEP) are supporting the ‘Great British September Clean’ but, because of Covid-19 restrictions, we are unable to organise a full-scale community clean-up. Instead, we encourage individuals, pairs, or family groups to carry out their own litter-picks in the Park on 18th, 19th or 20th September. If you collect on one of these three days you may leave your sacks of litter piled up at the Skiddaw Walk entrance to the Park; if you collect on a different day, you will need to make your own arrangements for disposing of the collected litter. For more information and advice about litter picking during the continued Covid-19 pandemic, visit our new website: www.foep.co.
uk Join in and Make a Difference! THE GREAT BRITISH SEPTEMBER CLEAN: A 'Task Force' consisting of six people (5 FoEP Volunteers & the Park Ranger) spent a total of 14 hours in Eastfield Park litter picking and removing some larger items of rubbish including two mattresses, metal blinds, assorted clothing, remains of a child's bike, plastic & metal wheels, a sheet of vinyl, car tyres, the base of a revolving chair and sacks of fly-tipped clay. Other fly-tipped rubbish was reported by the Park Ranger for action. Eight sacks of litter were collected but this only represents part of the FoEP achievement during the Great British September Clean; one member had collected a sack of litter during the week, another was out collecting as the 'task force' finished work, and others will be out collecting litter on 20th September. It is likely that more have been out collecting litter without my knowledge. Please let us know if you have been litter picking in Eastfield Park - number of hours spent collecting and number of sacks filled. A big 'thank you' to everybody involved..
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Here at CleanupUK, we want to help you to take LitterAction! Wherever you live in the UK, forming your own community litter-picking group will help to keep your community safer, more friendly and free of litter. It’s lots of fun too. Why not muck in and join us?
