Some 30 volunteers took part in CLEAN FOR THE QUEEN organised by the Aldborough Hatch Defence Association on S aturday 27th February. The kitchen team prepared coffee, tea and biscuits and later hot soup and hot dogs. The lads and lasses set out on a bitterly cold morning with their litter-picks akimbo, their purple CLEAN FOR THE QUEEN sacks safely encased in the rubber rings and their smart yellow tabards (all courtesy of London Borough of Redbridge Recycling Team) and blue gloves (kindly supplied by Forest Farm Shop). And all Volunteers received a free REDBRIDGE bag to carry their shopping – again courtesy of the Borough. It should be noted that all the materials supplied by LBR were paid for from funding that was bid for LBR Recycling – and did not come out of Council Tax!
A total
of 60 sacks were filled whilst we collected some car parts either
discarded or the result of an accident a few hours earlier when a car
hit a tree at the top of Aldborough Road North. We also found some mops
and lots of Vodka bottles –so many Vodka bottles that one lady said that
she had never seen so many in all her life! In fact we found bottles
and cans of every size and variety including two unopened tins of Tuna!
One lady who spent all morning cleaning at the entrance to Benina Close (a private road where the residents appear to throw all their rubbish over the fence and are apparently happy to live on the edge of a rubbish tip!) asked if we could do this every month and seemed disappointed when I said we would do it annually!
One young man purchased - at his own expense - a long-handled pooper-scupper and a black bucket. He toured to roads on the east of Aldborough Road North (Applegarth Drive, etc) and found the pavements clean, but in Aldborough Road North and the pavements to the west (Roy Gardens, Oaks Lane) there was dog mess all over the pavements which filled his bucket.
One little girl who worked all morning with her mother told me that it had been the best day of her life!
So a BIG THANK YOU again to everyone. It was the community of Aldborough Hatch at its very best. Here’s to the next time, but if I see someone dropping litter I will tell them what for!
One lady who spent all morning cleaning at the entrance to Benina Close (a private road where the residents appear to throw all their rubbish over the fence and are apparently happy to live on the edge of a rubbish tip!) asked if we could do this every month and seemed disappointed when I said we would do it annually!
One young man purchased - at his own expense - a long-handled pooper-scupper and a black bucket. He toured to roads on the east of Aldborough Road North (Applegarth Drive, etc) and found the pavements clean, but in Aldborough Road North and the pavements to the west (Roy Gardens, Oaks Lane) there was dog mess all over the pavements which filled his bucket.
One little girl who worked all morning with her mother told me that it had been the best day of her life!
So a BIG THANK YOU again to everyone. It was the community of Aldborough Hatch at its very best. Here’s to the next time, but if I see someone dropping litter I will tell them what for!
