Spring Cleaning The Bunny Park

Volunteers get stuck in and collect 50 bags of rubbish

(all images courtesy Paul James)

Residents living near Hanwell's Bunny Park have taken part in a major Spring Clean using conventional methods and more unusual.

'Plogging' - Pick-up Litter Jogging’ is catching on with local runners and several turned out at Brent Lodge Park on Sunday. All you need to join in this Scandanavian hobby is your running gear, a bag for litter, and ideally a pair of gloves to protect your hands.

A total of 50 big bags of rubbish were collected by alll the volunteers with an average weight of 5 kilos per bag, plus a few large items like a shopping trolley, 3 suitcases and a fire grate. 
As an area was cleaned small notices were placed nearby to let park users AND, hopefully, litter louts know that Hanwell people who ‘love their parks’ had done the clean-up and to ask them not to drop litter.

Organiser Keith Freegard who set up the Facebook group ‘LAGER Can’, said:

‘The event was great fun and it was amazing how many local people do really care about the appearance of the parks.  Several people asked that we run another event in the summer because they enjoyed the experience so much! It was great to see our local MP , Steve Pound come along and support the hard work – he even picked up a bag full of litter himself!''

It would appear, perhaps not surprisingly, aluminium drink (mostly beer!)  cans are the most frequently littered item, followed by  plastic bottles, plastic bags, glass bottles and then general food packaging waste. 

If you would like to get involved with the next litter pick-up event visit facebook page LAGER can.

27th March 2018