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Salford residents encouraged to join Great British Spring Clean

By Lauren Lomax on 19th March 2019 in Community, Environment

Salford City Council is encouraging ‘little heroes’ to get involved in a nationwide initiative to clean up the streets and parks.

The Great British Spring Clean, which will run from Friday, 22 March – Tuesday, 23 April, will inspire people to start protecting the environment.

Last year, hundreds of Salford residents got involved in collecting tonnes of rubbish – including schools, community groups and local companies.

The council are providing litter-picking essentials and collecting the rubbish for any groups that register with the Great British Spring Clean in Salford.

Keep Britain Tidy Chief Executive Allison Ogden-Newton said: “Without councils across the country giving the campaign their backing, our volunteers would not be able to do the incredible job they do.”

We’re joining in the #GBSpringClean on Friday 22nd March! ?

We’ll be taking part in a litter pick in Eccles supported by @SalfordSV & members including @carbon_creative & @KeepmoatHomes

If you want to run your own litter pick @SalfordCouncil can provide equipment to help pic.twitter.com/jxX9WFshYq

— Salford CVS (@SalfordCVS) March 19, 2019

Allison added: “The Great British Spring Clean is an opportunity for the millions of people who care about the environment on their doorstep to do something positive that will make a visible difference.”

Last year, the event saw 370,000 volunteers collecting 630,000 bags of rubbish across Britain.

This year, the organisation hopes to have even more of an impact by imposing the “three bag full” approach.

This encourages their volunteers to recycle by filling each individual bag with: aluminium cans, plastic or general rubbish.

Phase 1 complete of the ESOL 16-18’s campaign for Keep Britain Tidy Week, in collaboration with Salford Council and The River Anglers Conservation group. Students identified lots of rubbish in the river and completed their tally charts, taking photos of the rubbish they found. pic.twitter.com/HB111pqfE8

— SCC_ESOL (@SCC_ESOL) March 4, 2019