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Volume 18, Thursday 9th November, 2006
Bush rescue
Above: Rubbish dumped off Axehead Road recently. Inset: Volunteers who helped clean up the mess. Below: More rubbish. Roxby Downs Council workers were stunned to find a load of rubbish dumped in scrubland off Axehead and the Bypass road on Tuesday. Mainly consisting of old newspapers with pieces cut from them – the rubbish had spread over nearly three acres of scrub and took a number of workers and volunteers nearly two hours to clean up. Environment Partnership volunteer Pete Paisley discovered the mess. “I was returning from visiting a number of station owners when I saw a number of newspapers stuck in the bushes across the flat.” “On closer inspection I discovered a big pile of newspapers underneath a myall tree,” he said. Clearly unimpressed with the behaviour of the person or people who dumped the rubbish, Mr Paisley rang the council and asked them to
look into the matter. However, the situation did demonstrate some positive aspects of the community. “It was good to see the community participate and come out to clean up the rubbish and it showed some real pride in the town,” he said. Roxby Downs Council’s Peter Keller was one of the people tasked with cleaning up the mess. “We were out there for the most part of two hours and it took a considerable amount of resources to clean up this reckless act.” “If the people who cleaned it up were being paid it would have been quite an expensive job to do,” he said. Also involved in the clean up was the Council’s works manager, Dave Watson. “I was very annoyed that someone
was willing to dump their rubbish in sensitive lands.” “There’s no excuse for these types of actions because the costs to recover the waste will eventually go back to the community,” he said. Several potentially incriminating items were found amongst the waste at the scene and Mr Watson said he had already approached a resident regarding the matter, who will be subject of further council investigations. “I approached a member of the community regarding the dumped rubbish but they denied any involvement in the matter.” “I asked them to have a think about it then to make an appointment and come and see me later,” Mr Watson said.
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