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Leaping into a Spring Clean can be tyre-ing work

5 GoodGymers made their way to help the OxClean in Oxford.

  • Trev
  • Julia
  • Ben Foster
  • Laura Jose
  • Imogen Batten-Turner
 
Saturday, 29th of February 2020
 
Led by Ben Foster

With Storm Jorge threatening, 5 Goodgymers leapt into action to pick up litter in West Oxford as part of OxClean's Spring Clean 2020 event. Armed with gloves, refuse sacks, high viz and litter pickers (the latter kindly provided by the West Oxford Community Centre) we slowly made our way around the community centre and up Binsey Lane, picking up whatever waste we could find.

The combination of fast cars and puddles in the road meant we did get a little bit wet from oncoming traffic and it perhaps wasn't surprising that we found a bumper crop of wing mirrors and car... erm… bumpers plus a car tyre on the narrow road. More unsurprisingly we found several golf balls nestled in the hedges with Oxford Golf Centre nearby. Other notable items included a tattered portable DVD player, the handle of a mop and a section of carpet.

In all, we filled 8 refuse sacks in addition to the items that didn't fit in (the tyre and carpet included) so hopefully Binsey Lane is looking a little cleaner now and people think twice about fly tipping and littering in the future. More pictures will follow.

Special thanks to OxClean for providing the high viz and refuse sacks and Oxford Direct Services who were able to pick up the sacks once we had finished.

Report written by Ben Foster


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Julia
Julia
Saturday February 29th, 2020 18:15

The handle of a mop?! I was led to believe that was some sort of majestic wizard's staff!...

Julia
Julia
Saturday February 29th, 2020 18:16

P.s. great run report Ben!

Anwen Greenaway
Anwen Greenaway
Tuesday March 3rd, 2020 01:01

Well done gang! Last year we took the collection of golf balls back into the golf centre to try and shame them into collecting them up in future. Clearly it didn’t work!

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