Luton

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A Rubbish Drag Race

2 GoodGymers made their way to help their local community in Luton.

  • Lizzy Burch
  • David Mansfield
 
Sunday, 3rd of October 2021
 
Led by David Mansfield

As part of the maintenance of the Warden Hill Meadow as a nature reserve, a couple of thickets needed thinning out of overgrowth to preserve the grassland and make features of a few of the trees among them.

These thickets had become a flytippers dumping ground and we had to clear the rubbish out to make space for the Luton and Dunstable Conservation Volunteers to get to work cutting back the vegetation.

A fridge, two armchairs, some doors, a wheelchair, pallets, laminate flooring, a BBQ and lots more random things were pulled out and dragged down off the meadow to a nearby road for collection by the council.

The fly-tippers had gone to a lot of unnecessary effort to get to their dumping site, so it was a lot of effort to get it out again!

Report written by David Mansfield


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