Hi,

I am going to do a litter pick in the area of the Horse Tunnel on Saturday morning at 9am.

I have arranged with Tescos that we can bag up the rubbish and put it in their skip (we will recycle glass, plastic and cans ).

If anyone wishes to help please come along. I suggest you bring gloves!

Meet at the Tesco car park by the recycling containers 9am.

Cheers

Jon.

Great idea.  That corner definitely needs a spring clean.  I will do my utmost to be there.

Time to find out who are the doers and who are the talkers on this forum eh Jon.

It's not too late-be part of the solution!  see you all there )

Cheers

Edited by user 04 March 2011 22:28:00(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Just to add.  that at least five bins  of plastic bottles and an equal quantity of glass and cans where recycled.......look out for the next litter pick which will be the road side of the canal from the basin to Tesco...watch this space

Cheers

My spouse and I would definately have been there but we were on holiday. Well done to all of you....

I agree, well done. I wasn't even in the country so I can blame that. But to be perfectly honest I doubt if I would have helped, Sat mornings are usually very busy. Again well done, we need more chaps like you.

If i respond to the previous post, there will be cries that he is being picked on, so I won't.

Quick question on this...

Do Tescos have any duty of responsiblity to keep the area clean. Surley most of the rubbish around the horse tunnell is blown there from the car park. again with the surrounding embankment.

If my garden was full of rubbish mine....or stuff blown ito it. I would not excpect my neighbours to come and clean it, and if they did.....merley letting them put it in my bin does not constitute help at all.

its great that you guys have attempeted a clean up...but why cant 'they' be made to keep this up, especialy with the new 'granted' expansion.

not an issue at all with what your saying there.....its makes total sense.

Im just asking what resposibility they have to keep the area clean?.....regardless if the waste is from Teso's or not....

eg...if i buy a drink and decide to leave the bottle in the carpark...(which i would never do).......and it blows onto the embankment....who cleans it?.....

my point being...im sure they do clean the carpark....but do they do anything in the surrounding enviroment.?

point taken.......i will get back in my box.....

i prob have a bit of an anti-tescos running through me....i know they provide a good service, im prob just sick of going there at the weekends.....even tho i try to buy most things from local shops..

It wouldn't go amiss for Tesco clean a bit further past their border towards the Horse Bridge, after all it is an entrance that many people use and much of the rubbish clearly has come from their premises.  One of the most common type of rubbish in that corner are the small plastic veg bags.  I suspect that it is mainly unused bags that shoppers leave in the trolleys and are then blown by the wind across the car park off the Tesco land.  I retrieved two such bags from next to the path to the Horse Bridge, just three days after the Litter Pick.  It wouldn't take much time or effort, just one person for ten minutes each week would make such a difference.