500 get the litter bug

May 11 2009 by Kenneth Speirs, Paisley Daily Express

A WHOPPING 60,000 enthusiastic volunteers blitzed litter across Scotland in April as part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s National Spring Clean 2009 – and more than 500 of those volunteers carried out clean-ups in East Renfrewshire.

Litter was cleared from business districts, open spaces, parks and residential areas by 10 groups of volunteers from the area.

Across Scotland, enough black sacks of litter to fill 28,819 standard wheelie bins were collected as part of National Spring Clean 2009.

The huge increase in volunteers, who donned yellow tabards and wielded litter pickers, was seen as showing that people really do want to make a difference to their favourite haunts and don’t want to see them return to their previous littered state.

A Litter Action Day on tomorrow will aim to address this through enforcement – with those caught littering being fined.