{"id":50263,"date":"2024-03-08T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheflive.co.uk\/?p=50263"},"modified":"2024-03-08T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:10:47","slug":"community-litter-pick-aims-to-clean-up-hillsborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/community-litter-pick-aims-to-clean-up-hillsborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Community litter pick aims to clean up Hillsborough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hillsborough’s Green Party has teamed up with Loxley and Wisewood litter pickers to tackle the ongoing issue of rubbish in public places in the area. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday the 9th of March a community litter pick will begin at 10.30 on Dykes Hall Road. Chris Bragg, a clinical scientist at the NHS, has organised the event to combat the litter problem in Hillsborough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The litter picking occurs once a month, on the second Saturday, at four rotating locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Bragg said: “There is a visible difference after each pick in the streets we have been tackling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We can only do so much with the monthly picks, and resources prevent our organising them on a more frequent basis, but every little helps and overall, the amount of litter in Hillsborough and Wisewood has been noticeably lower over the past three years or so.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since these community litter picks began, a few weird items have been found on the side of the road, such as mattresses, road signs and even a pink flamingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The events have proven to be relatively popular, with over 100 people on the mailing list, and 10 regulars showing up at every pick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Bragg feels that these community litter picks are not only useful for cleaning rubbish but help raise awareness on the issue of litter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: “By publicising the events on the Hillsborough Green Party pages and other local social media groups both before and afterwards, we can show people the impact they are having.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By rotating the event across several locations, it helps increase the visibility.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the resources for organising these litter picks being low, free litter picking kits are available to collect for free at the following locations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Central Library (Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 1XZ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Chapeltown Library (Nether Ley Avenue, Sheffield, S35 1AE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Crystal Peaks Library (1-3 Peak Square, Crystal Peaks Complex, Waterthorpe, Sheffield, S20 7PH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Darnall Library (Britannia Road, Sheffield, S9 5JG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Ecclesall Library (120 Ecclesall Road South, Sheffield, S11 9PL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Firth Park Library (443 Firth Park Road, Sheffield, S5 6QQ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Highfield Library (London Road, Sheffield, S2 4NF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Hillsborough Library (Middlewood Road, Sheffield S6 4HD)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Manor Library (Ridgeway Road, Sheffield S12 2SS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Parson Cross Library (The Learning Zone, 320 Wordsworth Avenue, S5 8NL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Stocksbridge Library (Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Road, Sheffield S36 1DH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Woodseats Library (The Roddick Building 900 Chesterfield Road, Sheffield S8 0SH)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hillsborough’s Green Party has teamed up with Loxley and Wisewood litter pickers to tackle the ongoing issue of rubbish in public places in the area. On Saturday the 9th of March a community litter pick will begin at 10.30 on Dykes Hall Road. Chris Bragg, a clinical scientist at the NHS, has organised the event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}