WASTE
Tackling
£1billion
problem with
spring clean
Ealing Council has signed
up to take part in the
Great British Spring
Clean (GBSC), a national
campaign led by Keep
Britain Tidy to bring
people together to
take part in various
clear up activities,
from 2-4 March.
I
n January, we asked residents to
vote for which locations we should
hold clean-up events at during the
GBSC. We asked you to pick three of
the borough’s worst hotspots: One along
our canalways, one of our roads and
one of our parks. Following your vote on
Facebook, the council will hold a clear-up
event at these chosen locations: The
Smiths Farm section of the Grand Union
Canal; Seaford Road in West Ealing; and
Brent Lodge Park in Hanwell.
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around ealing February 2018
‘Chucking litter is like
throwing away council
tax payers’ money’
The clean-
ups will take place on Friday,
2 March. Local people are urged
to come along and take part or,
alternatively, for community members
to come together to organise activities
in their own neighbourhoods.
HUGE COST OF DUMPED RUBBISH
This follows an announcement by Keep
Britain Tidy that the task of cleaning
up litter and fly-tipping from streets,
parks, highways and public spaces
costs councils around £1billion a
year nationally. In Ealing, the cost of
cleaning up litter and fly-tipping has
reached an average of £3million a year.
Keep Britain Tidy estimates that
more than 30 million tonnes of litter
and fly-tipped waste is collected from
the streets in England every year, with
Ealing Council cleaning up 18,000
tonnes across the borough each year.
Councillor Bassam Mahfouz, cabinet
member for transport, environment and
leisure said: “The Great British Spring
Clean is a great reminder that it is not