Tackling litter is EASI

Earley Adopt-a-Street Initiative (EASI) is the largest communityrun litter picking group in the Wokingham Borough, with now more than 300 volunteers covering nearly all of Earley’s roads and footpaths.

EASI was the first of its kind in the Borough when it launched in 2010, and since then more groups have formed locally, as well as individual volunteers without a group in their area.

If you join our Adopt a Street scheme we can provide a litter picker and rubbish bags. You can monitor your neighbourhood and report any problems to us. We will collect the rubbish bags along with your normal household waste.

EASI regularly liaises with us about placing litter bins where they are needed the most. And it recently installed more than 25 micro bins for smokers at bus shelters and other locations across Earley, keeping hundreds of dog-ends per week from the ground and polluting the environment.

“In most places, though not everywhere, we find that keeping a street reasonably clear of litter results in less being dropped,” said Peter Soul, one of EASI’s founders.

EASI members meet up at the Huge Earley Litter Pick (March), the EASI Summer Party, the Thames-side Litter Pick (September), the autumn coffee morning plus small occasional working parties.

More information: www.wokingham.gov.uk (search ‘adopt a street’) Peter Soul (EASI) (0118) 926 4997