I’m back from a litter pick with 1st Gatley Cubs.

We aimed to clean up the path running from Foxland Road to Hawthorn Road in Gatley.  It gets more litter than most because it’s a main route for many of the kids at Kingsway to go too and from school, and because it’s a path, the Council’s cleaning machines can’t reach it.

With about 15 Cubs and five leaders, we spent an hour picking up rubbish: mostly cans, bottles and wrappers.    The Cubs filled nine bags of rubbish from the path and the bushes near it (including down the edge of Scholes field near the pavillion).  They even found a bike frame in the middle of one bush.

The Council are happy to help organise litter picks.  We were given bin bags, disposable gloves and grabbers, and the bags are being collected this afternoon.

And it was actually fun!  The Cubs enjoyed it and got a real sense of achievement as the bags filled up.  I’ve got a feeling the excitement might drop a bit if we tried to do it every week, but we’ll definitely be hoping to do another with Cubs in the Spring.

If you’d like to organise your own litter pick, just let me know.

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