If you want to help remove waste from our streets and green spaces why not get involved.
You will be not only be supporting Keep Scotland Beautiful’s #SpringCleanScotland, which runs until 24 April this year, but will also be backing the council’s very own It’s Your Place campaign.
Across South Lanarkshire there are many litter picking groups assisting the council cope with the growth of littering and fly-tipping in recent years.
One such group is the Hamilton and Blantyre Litter Pickers.
The group’s Chairperson Julie Dickson said: “Our group was started in 2020 by a man called Chris Hatton. We now have more than 1000 members.
“Over the years, as well as the usual litter you would expect thoughtless people to have discarded, we have found everything from car bumpers to animal skulls.
“We are all volunteers with a single goal to clear our towns of litter.
“There are regular litter picking events so anyone wishing to volunteer can simply go to the event section on our Facebook page to sign up.”
A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO ALL INVOLVED👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sadly those who litter don’t care😟
I’m all for communities getting together to tackle a problem. But:
It would take more than an army to pick even just the trash that we can see at any given time round here. Anyone seen the back road from Blantyre to East Kilbride?
Fossil fuel companies are pouring billions into ramping up production of plastics in the coming years.
The food and drink federation representing businesses always seems to successfully push back against efforts to reduce packaging.
We ship the trash legitimately collected to the other side of the world and then what happens to it?
What I’m saying is, definitely litter pick but it’s for nothing if more isn’t put in to the causes of litter. I’m not convinced about the approach of Keep Scotland Beautiful. They seem to be all about putting the responsibility (correctly) on behaviour but seem to be silent on the source of all this Stuff.
As long as so much is produced and distributed to suit the current business models of unaccountable multinational corporations, ‘Trash’ will always, always, find a way out, by accident, carelessness or recklessness.
All our centre-right political parties are uninterested in tackling the root causes of this blight which harms our surroundings, nature and even on our own internal organs via the inevitable breakdown into microplastics.
We need a campaign for a complete change in our distribution and packaging and retailers should bear a lot of responsibility.