Southampton & District Green Party Continue to Support Community Litter Picks.

6 November 2022

Sunday afternoon there was a gap in the weather during which the local Green Party took the opportunity to help Portswood residents in and around Thackeray Road to clean up their neighbourhood.

For just around an hour the party of volunteers managed to fill so many bags but also gathered up large items that had been the result of fly tipping in the area.

Katherine Barbour who had organised the event wasn’t surprised that so much waste (a fridge freezer,bedroom furniture,a shopping trolley a mattress and an estate agent board) had been deposited in such a short length of road in the city.

She said, ‘ It is now very common that waste is simply deposited on and around pavements in the city as a whole. Within Portswood a pile of waste can be declared to the council waste and recycling team, collected a week later, only for a further pile requiring to be re-stacked within a month’.

Some of the waste was sorted by the volunteers and all the residents’ glass recycling was put back within properties in an orderly manner.

Even though the activity occurred in such a small time frame, the team were very satisfied that the area looked more presentable; hopefully with the effect of encouraging people to do the right thing and bin their rubbish.

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