On Saturday afternoon I managed to get warmed up; after spending the morning out and about in the East Marsh Ward. It was bitterly cold, but as usual I had great fun! And, to add to the excitement we had the first snow falls of the winter, but to be honest it was only a light flurry.
On Saturday, we started on the first of our community clean-ups. I left our house at 8.30 am and collected my black bags and litter picker from the Community Wardens, and within no time at all I had collected three large bags of metal cans: obviously used, that had been dropped alongside the road or on waste land.
At 10 am, I met up with three of our Community Wardens and five Junior Wardens who had come down to give us an hand for the rest of the morning. Before we set off, I told the young Junior Wardens, that the idea of the morning was just to collect metal cans; with the aim being to demonstrate how much waste could be recycle if people took a little extra time. I explained to young people that every piece of litter costs the council money to collect, but in particular metal is particularly important like other recyclable because it is taking up valuable space on our landfill site.
After a quick warm up we set off, and the young people soon got down to work. Well, done all you Junior Wardens from Strand Junior School and thanks for helping us to collect 13 bags of recyclables, which will now all add to our council’s recycling targets. Well done, once again! Let’s hope its better weather next time, and that more people turn out to give us a hand.
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