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😳 that's some bad flytipping - hopefully your council/Environmental services chases it up.


 
Posted : 31/07/2023 9:19 am
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We've got a couple of burnt out superbikes turned up in our woods, couldn't find them in the litter bag so reported it to the council but a week later and they're still there!  I guess services are stretched but you'd think someone was bother between the council, police and insurance company


 
Posted : 31/07/2023 11:03 am
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😳 that’s some bad flytipping – hopefully your council/Environmental services chases it up.

Yeah worst I've seen, never actually had to leave a (pretty wide in the scheme of things) byway and go through the undergrowth to go round something before. I think it will get followed up though, the other stuff I've reported has been. I said I'd be happy to give a statement to support any prosecution so I'm living in hope of that phone call.

We’ve got a couple of burnt out superbikes turned up in our woods

That reminds me, found a still quite fiercely burning quad bike or something at the bottom of a field only 2 or so weeks ago. I looked at it and thought to myself 'is the time when I call the fire brigade?'.

I thought I'd moved to a nice area...


 
Posted : 31/07/2023 11:14 am
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My LBC is good for clearing fly tipping - they have a FB Messenger that they monitor and reply to.

That curryhouse needs fining regardless for using the tagline
"Eat Karahi and curry on" 😩


 
Posted : 31/07/2023 12:13 pm
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Another day off with pish weather, another walk into the Stoodley Pike litter mine with my 90l rucsac. Three more trips and it'll be cleaned out.
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Posted : 31/07/2023 2:27 pm
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A bag for life being dead.

Town square and local cemetery. One bag collected/one bag filled

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Posted : 01/08/2023 7:04 am
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Another monomaniacal walk-in, another 90l rucsac. The end is in sight...
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Posted : 01/08/2023 2:42 pm
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Another monomaniacal walk-in, another 90l rucsac. The end is in sight…

what is that rubbish? Is it flytipping or has someone been camping/living in the woods?


 
Posted : 01/08/2023 3:54 pm
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That photo is actually copied across from today's blog post on that very subject...


 
Posted : 01/08/2023 4:07 pm
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Dozy Dena

....dropped her bank card. Found her on FB, messaged and dropped it off on the way to work.

But not before going to the offy and buying a load of fags and booze contactless.

Oh yeah - half a bag collected in the pissing rain.

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Posted : 02/08/2023 7:32 am
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The big judging day!!!!

National Britain in Bloom day. Woke up early and did 1 1/2hours of micro litter picking - fags butts, tiny bits of paper etc. 1 bag full.

The town is awash with CivicPride hi-viz and t-shirts, everywhere looks amazing!

Good luck Rawtenstall!


 
Posted : 03/08/2023 8:05 am
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Usual hour wander round the local paths and park, the broken window analogy seems to work as very little litter to pick this morning.....

....apart from the Nos knob heads on the path next to Maccys who didn't get the memo.

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Posted : 07/08/2023 7:32 am
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Half a bag collected - short walk as Bert goes Canicross running today.
Did a bit a of guerilla gardening.

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Posted : 08/08/2023 7:57 am
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Bin lessons

I'm sure people just don't know what a litter bin is our how they work🤷‍♂️

Apple's from the local park about to be launched into the guerilla garden opposite our house.

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Posted : 09/08/2023 7:25 am
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"Blumin foreigners coming over here and taken over"

Himalayan balsam is at full bloom and has taken over a few of our paths, Japanese knotweed is in full grow as well. I wouldn't mind either plant if they didn't die off completely in winter.

1 full bag collected - school holidays+nice weather = more litter.

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Posted : 11/08/2023 7:35 am
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Monday morning tidy up following the weekend.

#412 how do you use a bin?

1 bag collected, anyone else over the weekend?

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Posted : 14/08/2023 7:31 am
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Looks like someone's dumped a weed grow somewhere - some of it being in the park.

Tidied away, 1bag collected and left at local bin.

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Posted : 17/08/2023 7:32 am
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Minging megawatts

Not done this route over the summer as it's too warm for Bert due to the elevation.

Being an engineer I love the concept of this installation - it's a 1MW generator set that uses methane gas from the decaying former quarry/landfill on the hillside above to generate electricity. The woods on the side of the hill are also a popular MTB venue/session area.

1 1/2bags collected, fly tipping reported.

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Posted : 18/08/2023 7:31 am
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I did a thing!

Half a bag collected this morning plus a pocket full of apples and some hazelnuts from the other day to plant.

Last year's acorns are doing well - I'm really protective of my mini trees, they are the first thing I've ever grown!

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Posted : 21/08/2023 10:09 am
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Two bricker......two bagger

Bit longer walk this morning as off work and no Canicross training today for Bert.

Double bricker kicker under the motorway bridge, plenty of shit lobbed out of vehicles.
1 deer spotted, 2x💩 (Bert), 2bags collected.

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Posted : 22/08/2023 8:53 am
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Bumped into this awesome woman tonight who had dived into the layby bushes half way down Buckden Woods (for those who know the cheeky footpath) and cleared out 100's of McCosta**** cups and four van tyres.

I added to her pile later when I looped back round with my Poo&Two.

Check out Litter Picking Ramsbottom on FB

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Posted : 25/08/2023 8:25 pm
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Bert's back in business

2weeks off but back in the routine again of clearing people's entitlement.

1bag collected.
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Posted : 04/09/2023 7:38 am
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Nice start to the day.

Beautiful morning out with my beautiful dog.

1bag collected.

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Posted : 05/09/2023 7:06 am
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Bumped into this awesome woman

Fantastic. 😊
Great to have people like this that exist to counter the rest a little.


 
Posted : 05/09/2023 7:10 am
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Stone the crows Magpies

Sorry crows - I've always blamed you for dragging dogshit and detritus out of the bins. Having watched a pair of Magpies this morning I now realize you crows are innocent and you can go back to pecking the eyes out of new born lambs again.

1bag collected, 1bin tidied.

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Posted : 06/09/2023 7:19 am
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Near the bin, not in the bin.

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Posted : 06/09/2023 8:22 am
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You can't be angry though when Harold is in the photo!


 
Posted : 06/09/2023 9:26 am
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Morning paddle

Not the most exciting morning route but plenty of cooling opportunities for Bert.

1 bag collected - mainly from someone's picnic

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Posted : 07/09/2023 7:32 am
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Litter picking pays!

Wet uninspiring miserable morning - couldn't be bothered taking a photo. 1bag collected, found 60p in a small pile in the grass!


 
Posted : 12/09/2023 7:53 am
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Yes!
60p could get you a chew for Bert! 👌


 
Posted : 12/09/2023 8:02 am
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You can watch the trash free trails summit here: https://www.youtube.com/live/y8f8SMHHTCg?si=QNMPSofXBESAHv3d

They do a lot of data gathering and analysis stuff in an effort to tackle rubbish at source. If you jump to the two talks from 1.29 you can hear a bit about why and what what they’ve discovered so far.


 
Posted : 12/09/2023 8:22 am
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Myles and Monster.

Do we think Myles is going to do well at All Saints?

I think Wednesday nights are sponsored by Monster - found 5 cans this morning. #1 **** drink company.

Otherwise 1 not overly full bag collected.

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Posted : 14/09/2023 8:09 am
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Ghosts and Goblins

Wander round town to the cemetery and back. 1bag collected. Didn't rescue the kidnapped Princess Prin-Prin (I had to Google the tenuous link)

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Mmmm... Delicious orange juice.

I'll just leave it here.

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I am just here to say 'thank you' to you folk for doing this.

👍👍👍


 
Posted : 15/09/2023 9:11 am
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I am just here to say ‘thank you’ to you folk for doing this.

Thanks not needed - I'm out with doggo every morning for an hour, it is literally no bother to take a litter picker with me and lunge at stuff as doggo is doing his thing.


 
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Well, millions of people do just that but DON'T do anything, so yeah, big ups 👏


 
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It's acorn and conker time again - collected whilst out with doggo.

Some of last year's are coming on well - I'm well chuffed that I've grown some little baby trees!

Non of last year's conkers did anything though - I don't think there were enough cold days to germinate them. I'm going to freeze some of this years and see what happens.

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Posted : 16/09/2023 11:06 am
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You know why I litter pick?

It's because of things like this on tonight's walk over Holcombe. I didn't unearth it - it was already like that but some **** has taken more effort to pick the rock up and smush and hide the bagged poop into the ground than it would to have just carried it. I don't want to be associated with dog owners like that.

Bert had a shit so I did 'poo and two'

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Wow 😐


 
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What light for litter picking?

Dark at 6am nowadays - I felt like a sniper this morning wandering around with my tactical modded litter picker and wearing a poncho for the hammering rain!
Half a soggy wet bag collected, 3deer sniffed out by Bert not shot by me .

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Mid week morning meandering

1bag collected.
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Posted : 20/09/2023 8:06 am
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i really dont know about this thread.

Full respect and admiration to what you do.
And i agree with the "broken window" syndrome, if theres litter everywhere i can see it being a sink for more litter.

But i cant fathom who is just, letting go, of litter they've finished with.
I dont imagine they get as far as thinkining "some mug will pick it up later".
Im almost thinking im not pickig it up because its reinforcing that thought process (that they dont go through)

Hanging's too good for them.


 
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Conkers and acorns are in full flood now. Few pocketfulls for planting.

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Penultimate 90l rucsac of other peoples' sh!te carried out of the Great Litter Mine, getting me out on a grim morning. One more to go...


 
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Wheelie good litter picking session this morning.....

1bag with broken VW wheeltrim collected

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Don't know if its because I can't see litter with it being dark or people aren't out to drop litter but I'm only picking up half a bag or so now.

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or people aren’t out to drop litter but I’m only picking up half a bag or so now.

Colder n damper = fewer folk out.

Plus, you may be fixing the broken window faster than it breaks again....


 
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Sorry snail.....

Local gravel path leading to a bench I spotted the other day that needed picking. There's always snails on this path - i usually give them a turbo boost, pick them up and put them further in their direction of travel off the path so they don't get trodden on when the world wakes up.

This morning - two got the turbo boost but an unseen third got that sickening underfoot crunch sound that you know must have been a snail.....

Bench area (not the bench in the photo) cleared of someone's Kestrel Super and Redbull picnic.
1bag collected

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Posted : 28/09/2023 7:35 am
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Unfortunately, I found another Covid party site in that patch of woodland: abandoned tent and (presumably) associated rubbish. So that's another two or three rucsac loads that I'll be hoiking out over the coming months. The gift that keeps on giving.
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I've mentioned before on here about the International Standard unit of measurement known as the McCup. To expand on this standard - the graduations of a McCup range from 1 for the large cups to a 0.5/half McCup for the small/happy meal cups.

For anyone struggling with the concept or the length of measurement for a McCup - this morning's example (carefully left on the handrail for the demonstration) when measured was found to be exactly a half McCup away from the restaurant.

Incidentally McDonalds won the weekend scroatyMc****er award for the amount of their packaging discarded over the weekend.

1bag collected.

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Posted : 02/10/2023 7:39 am
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At the other end of the scale I live in the Highlands and we get the phenomenon of fast food packaging being dumped from cars miles from its origin. KFC full meal packaging 25 miles from the nearest KFC. Boils ma piss but no one else is going to pick it up.

Our litter issues are nowhere near towns and cities but the amount of roadside litter is unbelievable.

Hopefully the hub for the community helps keep on top of it  https://instagram.com/nethylitterhub

and this thread is still inspiring others to do a small part as it did for me.


 
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Hopefully the hub for the community helps keep on top of it> https://instagram.com/nethylitterhub

Nice little community approach👍


 
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My photos have disappeared🤷‍♂️
Have I broke Stw / the internet?


 
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Reinstatement

My collection of boring dog and litter bag photos has been reinstated......so to celebrate here's a boring picture of a dog and litter bag.

1bag collected.
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Posted : 04/10/2023 7:25 am
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Another rucsac load.


 
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Ultimate trolling

Our house (former mill) is on a quiet street with another house and the rest is light industrial (think Shoreditch rather than Teeside).
Some **** has had a shit on the pavement outside the phone exchange towards the end of our street, used half a bog roll and made no attempt to clear it/shit in a bag/put something over it. Just a mountain of human shit with a billion flies swarming on it. 🤷‍♂️

Anyway - half a bag of usual Maccys / Redbull / disposable vape post weekend detritus.

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Posted : 09/10/2023 7:39 am
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After picking two bags of litter from a local section of The Ridgeway last weekend, I rode past yesterday and someone's decided that it's a perfect place to dump their garden and builders waste 🤬

It's times like these that I wonder why I bother.


 
Posted : 09/10/2023 7:56 am
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My photos have disappeared again🤷‍♂️

1bag collected this morning.

Photo of 3second exposure of a dog that won't keep still (you'll probably just have to imagine it as no doubt it will disappear shortly)

Edited to add that the links are still there but the image is no longer visible.

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Posted : 16/10/2023 7:34 am
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Awards!

Rawtenstall has cleaned up so far in awards week - fingers crossed for the biggie (Britain in Bloom)

1bag collected this morning

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Posted : 18/10/2023 7:37 am
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The results are in from the Britain in Bloom awards ceremony today.....

Gold award for the Britain in Bloom large town category!

Clean sweep award (Glasdon sponsored glass trophy) due to the town being spotless and free from litter.

Sparrow Park (Rawtenstall memorial gardens) - Gold award for pocket gardens category.

This is in addition to the 12 awards won at the Neighborhood Award Day in Bolton earlier in the week.

I'll post the official CivicPride communication when it's published.

I'm so happy for all the people of CivicPride and Rawtenstall. But the real winners are us people of the town who get to live in the place that has been transformed by the efforts of volunteers and members of the community. It's those people who inspired me to litter pick whilst wandering around with Bert and as seen in this thread has then inspired other people to do the same where they live.


 
Posted : 19/10/2023 4:54 pm
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Better conditions for litter picking following the storm last week!

Guinness and gin were the pavement drinkers tipple of choice this weekend according to my unscientific research.

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Posted : 23/10/2023 7:26 am
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It's either not there or I can't see it!

Half a bag collected. Can always rely on Monster swilling ****s though to help fill the litter bag.

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Posted : 27/10/2023 7:39 am
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Bit lighter.

....but still dark when setting off. Litter is now getting covered by fallen leaves so not very productive half bag collected.

Photo of Bert on the beach yesterday as I'm sure you can imagine this morning's bag of litter!

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Posted : 30/10/2023 7:33 am
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Damn those like buttons not working.


 
Posted : 30/10/2023 8:51 am
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No Lucozade on my patch

......just empty Monster cans as usual.

Half a bag collected. The off-road paths are litter free as nobody is using them in the muddy winter months, main road pavements still have the same amount of litter.

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Posted : 10/11/2023 7:21 am
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Point of order.

There will never be a boring photo if Bert is in it.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 7:36 am
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I only visit singletrack now to read this great thread Rusty.

Excellent.

👌


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:01 am
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Bert and a bashed bollard

Half a bag collected (mainly from main roads), and a bent bollard (reported) which confused Bert.

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Posted : 17/11/2023 7:32 am
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Bent bollard? I'd suggest it is a tad more than bent. I'm left wondering if the car imposed on impact on that one.

And of my favourite twitter account - World Bollard Association.


 
Posted : 17/11/2023 7:55 am
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Autumn fruits

It's that time of year when the scroats efforts over the summer months bear fruit. As plants and bushes die back and shed leaves the fruit cans are revealed!

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Posted : 21/11/2023 9:49 am
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Midweek meander

Fairly boring urban route - no muddy puddles or deer. However it was exciting from a litter point!!!
It had everything!
660ml glass bottles
Broken glass bottles
Hedgerow fruit cans
Covid facemasks
Maccys packaging

It was that exciting that Bert forgot to poo! (1 bag collected)

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Posted : 22/11/2023 7:32 am
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However it was exciting from a litter point!!!

We need words.


 
Posted : 22/11/2023 7:46 am
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unencumbered

Milder weather means I don't need gloves.
Eating lots of carrots recently means I don't need a torch.

Result - 1bag of mainly roadside rubbish collected.

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Posted : 08/12/2023 7:31 am
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Well done RNP.
I'm struggling to get involved at the moment I'm so down with all and everything 😐
👏


 
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Well done RNP.
I’m struggling to get involved at the moment I’m so down with all and everything 😐

Yeah I get that, crappy miserable weather doesn't help but it will be Spring before we know it.
Your pics of Harold on the photo thread always make me smile& 🦮👍


 
Posted : 08/12/2023 8:52 am
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Called in an air strike

Reported some fly tipping this morning, the local council is good at clearing shit like this up and replied immediately to say it would get a team would sort it👍

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Posted : 11/12/2023 7:16 pm
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Rawtenstall made the Sunday Times best place to live list '23! I know its not just down to CivicPride and litter picking but it no doubt helps.

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Posted : 15/12/2023 11:33 am
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Ho ho ho Bert Santa has two full sacks of shit and litter presents for you boys and girls!
Merry Christmas!

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Posted : 18/12/2023 8:48 am
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Nice one 🙂


 
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