LITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Liz Harrison on Tuesday, 23rd February 2010, 16:55
Has anyone noticed how much litter is lying around Northwood.
Walking from my house in Pallance Road along Pallance Lane, into Wyatts Lane and back down to Pallance Road, there is a shocking amount of discarded rubbish.
Has anyone else noticed it?
What are we going to do about it?
Have we lost our sense of pride?
If we made ourselves personally responsible for the area around our own properties, we would immediately clear a good percentage of this eyesore.
Please let’s take more responsibility for our neighbourhood – or at least for our frontages.
Perhaps we could organise regular litter-picking sessions. Can anyone supply litter-pickers and bags from the Council?
Liz Harrison
Email – yorznmyne@btinternet.com
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I don’t drop litter as I am of the generation that was brought up by parents not just stuck in front of a TV. But I can still remember though we did have men that worked in and around the village and it was their job to sweep up and pick up rubbish.
I find it hard to except that in 2010 we should need to go on a litter picking day, when we have millions of people on the dole and its the lowest paid job (minimum wage) around and is not difficult to fill. The Council should employ more people in these sort of jobs and less in higher management paper pushing, costly jobs.
Many thanks Liz. I regret I have to agree with you.
The Parish Council has organised several litter picking Saturday mornings involving Parish Councillors and a few other volunteers over the past year. These have resulted in several large waste sacks full of rubbish on each occasion.
We will be organising another shortly and as before this wil be advertised in Northwood News, the Parish Notice Board and elsewhere so please keep a look out for this.
In the meantime, there are several residents who make a specific point of picking up litter in the village, including our Chairman and Parish Clerk. Another regular is away at the moment and I suspect that may have coincided with the increase seen around.
I pick litter on a regular basis, often on my way to the paper shop and agree that if others pick some up that would help.
The real issue of course is educating children and others that they should not litter. Unfortunately, much litter can be traced back to youngsters, ie sweets, crisps, ice cream products and the like, often in a trail from the purchased source or on the play park.
Best wishes, Roger M.