The Sunday before last you may have seen an odd sight on Trinity Mead – as intrepid members of the Trinity Mead residents association, joined by Town Councillor Victoria Alcock and Councillor Kate Rolfe, donned gloves and hi-viz jackets for a couple of hours of litter picking. Armed with plastic bin-bags, and picker sticks, they filled a grand total of 6 bags with sweet wrappers, drink cans, bottles, cigarette butts and even neatly-bagged dog mess. Oh, and is anyone missing any articles of clothing??
Lots of people stopped to chat, and several promises to help next time were made. One kind resident gave them all ice creams over his garden fence which were very gratefully received!
Look out for the next ‘Pick-up’ and come and join us.
On a more serious note, Trinity Mead is a lovely development and we can all contribute to keeping it that way – by taking our litter home, and instil in our children that littering is not acceptable, and even picking up the odd bit of litter when we see it. Particularly, horrible is the dog mess – not only that left on the ground, but also that left in bag in hedges and hanging trees. How bizarre to pick it up and leave it hanging there! Please, please, dog owners do pick up the mess and dispose of it at home or in the bins provided..Cigarette butts are also litter – and these lie in abundance, around the bus stops and in areas where they are routinely onto the same patch of grass. These do not break down into the soil, so please take them home or put them in a bin.
