West Moors Town Council’s community litter picker volunteers collected 35 bags of rubbish – the most collected in the last seven years of council litter picks and a plea has gone out for people to be part of the solution, not the pollution.

A spokesperson said that in the past year, including the 2021 and 2022 annual litter picks, volunteers have removed over 100 bags of litter from West Moors streets and car parks.

After thanking the volunteers and those who show respect by not littering, the council spokesperson added, “The hope was, if we carried out a litter pick every other month instead of once a year, we would be keeping West Moors tidier for longer.
Sadly, this is not the case.

“Since September 2021, each litter pick has seen nearly 20 bags of rubbish and our volunteer litter warden, who also patrols regularly, rarely sees streets with no litter.”