250 volunteers support the Great British Spring Clean

Date Added: 13/04/2022

The Great British Spring Clean was a big success – and we would like to thank every one of the 250 litter pickers who turned out to join the annual campaign.

We supported an incredible 18 groups of litter pickers during the two-week period this year. Groups covered a variety of areas within Central Bedfordshire from Fairfield in the north to Billington in the south.

The groups included charities, community groups, schools, a climate change group, and Town and Parish councils and they all made a real difference tidying up their communities

Our Community Engagement and Environmental Services teams worked together to provide groups and town and parish councils with handy litter grabbers, bags, and sturdy hoops to hold the bags open, and our waste collection contractor, FCC Environment, collected waste from pre-arranged locations.

Participants were encouraged to separate recyclables and general waste into two individual bags to maximise recycling where possible.