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.
Over the next few weekends we will attempt to ''walk-up'' all of the roads we have cleaned recently. January 23 to 28 2012: This week we did a series of 'walk ups'. Risby Road, Winterton Lane, Ermine Street north and south, the strawberry field lane, the lane past Winterton Showground and round the village itself. I estimate we covered 12 and we filled 26 sacks in the process! Sunday January 29 2012 - Ermine Street to the A1077 all done - another 16 big sacks of litter! Week long walk-ups covering local roads and Cringlebeck towards Roxby - 10 more sacks filled. Saturday February 4 2012 - Common Road, Broughton, more sacks plus 2 mattresses and a flat-pack cupboard, also a fire extinguisher. Walk-up on Brigg Road from Castlethorpe to Brigg.
33 bags today! Sunday February 12 2012 - a full walk up of Risby Road resulted in ONE sack of litter! We wondered if people are less likely to open their car windows and throw their litter out when it is freezing cold and snowing as it has been here for the last 10 days!! More walk ups around the level crossing, Dawes lane end and Ermine Street past Appleby woods - another 14 sacks filled. Feb 26th - the past couple of weekends we have completed walk-ups of all the roads in our area, collecting another 4 tyres and filling around 40 sacks with mainly newly dropped (fast food) litter..
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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?
