Greening Chinnor – Spring Clean litter
pick
On Sunday 1st April a team of 16 volunteers from
Chinnor and Kingston Blount carried out a community litter pick on some of our
most popular footpaths and bridleways. These included parts of the Ridgeway and
Driftway. We were extremely fortunate in enjoying one of the last fine days of
the recent warm spell. You now know what
those people in the brightly coloured jackets and carrying huge bin bags were
doing on a Sunday morning.
The group split up into 5 separate teams in order to
maximise the amount of rubbish collected. The results exceeded even our
optimistic estimates with about 25 bin bags full of recyclable and non-recyclable
rubbish. Rubbish collected ranged from the usual plastic drinks bottles to the
more unusual oil cans and parts of cars!
However, we were extremely disappointed with the sheer volume of dog mess
which was left in a range of plastic bags either on the ground, thrown into
ditches or hung from hedges and trees. We are baffled as to why anybody would
want to do this! Some of the offerings were in brightly coloured freezer bags –
is this to make it more attractive to children? It cannot be due to the strain of carrying the
bag to one of the dog bins as we found examples within 30 paces of the bins.
Anyway enough about some of our less responsible fellow
citizens and a huge thank you to everybody who turned out – young and old – you
know who you are. Thanks also to Jo and Liz from the Chinnor Parish Office who did all
of the chasing up for resources and also ensured prompt collection of our
waste. Our thanks to Biffa who supplied all of the kit.
Finally please watch this space as we intend to organise a
follow up community litter pick in the early Autumn and will again ask for
volunteers via the “Pump”
