On a sunny and crisp Wednesday morning, 9 volunteers met at The Farmer’s Arms on Chapel Lane. We covered most of the roads in the area, with one member going off to do parts of Altrincham Road, as unfinished business from the last event based at The Honey Bee. We collected at least 13 bags of litter. We also picked up a surprising number of nitrous oxide canisters in the gutter along Buckingham Road.
Six volunteers met at Summerfieds on Saturday 7th December. We covered both verges down to the A34 bypass, Colshaw Drive, Malpas Drive and Wheelock Close as well as Dean Row Road as far as the junction with Manchester Road. We collected a total of 11 bags of litter. We also took an additional bag of recyclable items (crushed plastic bottles and aluminium cans) away for domestic recycling.
One of our volunteers (Liz) discovered, on a solo pick, that the clean up after the recent 10k running event had not been very effective – with a lot of discarded, plastic water bottles. We are unsure who organised this event. Wilmslow Running Club are normally very good after their half marathon – so maybe this new event is organised by a different organisation? Anyway – we have made Cheshire East aware.
Our total bag count for the year is 446 – an amazing effort.
The total number pf bags we have collected, in the 6 years since we were formed, has gone over the 3,000 mark. This is a remarkable achievement for a volunteer run organisation – although we would much rather be seeing a reduction in the amount of litter out there.
Please note that our first scheduled litter pick of 2020 is on Saturday 4th January. Our Wednesday pick would normally have fallen on New Years Day – so we have pushed that one back a week until 8th January.
Well done everyone and thanks for all your hard work and support during the year. We wish all our volunteers a Merry Christmas and we hope to see you all again in the New Year.