Mountain of rubbish cleared during spring clean

Salix Homes supported two community clean-ups in Salford as part of the Great British Spring Clean – a national event run by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy to encourage people to help clean-up where they live.

Over the course of the two events in Kersal and Ordsall, volunteers picked up 110 bin bags of waste, plus 12 bags full of plastic bottles and four bin bags of aluminium cans, which were recycled.

A further 1.2 tonnes of bulky waste was cleared from the streets and green spaces, which included mattresses, sofas, televisions and even an old bath tub.

More than 40 volunteers and Salix Homes’ staff, including chief executive Lee Sugden and other senior managers, rolled up their sleeves to pick up an array of dumped rubbish and fly-tipped waste, which even included a pair of underpants and some slippers.

Kamil helps neighbourhood officer Sue Chadwick with the clean-up.

Among the volunteers was nineyear-old Kamil, from Kersal, who said:

I wanted to take part in the clean-up because I like to do nice things to help people where I live, plus it’ll be good when I’m playing out with my friends if everywhere is cleaner.

Read the full story in Life in Salford magazine issue 26, page 26.