An Important Tip
1 GoodGymer made their way to help their local community in Windsor and Maidenhead.
- Wednesday, 7th of February 2024
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Windsor and Maidenhead runner
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While walking with his wonderful weapon of waste management (it is very hard to come up with new ways to say ‘did a litter pick’), Matthew found a pile of rubbish too big for his bag. Too big for any bag.
Some fiend had fly tipped on the previously clean Ockwells Road. It was a pathetic pile of piffle, hardly worth the effort of driving to an out of the way rural destination to fly tip. Two large wooden pallets and an office chair have been dumped by the roadside. A really rubbish pile of rubbish.
Thoughts of repeatedly returning to the ugly pile of misery with a tiny saw over the next few weeks sprang to mind. But surely there must be a better and quicker way to disappear the problem?
That’s when I decided sometimes it is acceptable to fight fire with fire, or in this case to fight fly tipping with, um, a fly tip. My tip is that if you find a pile of fly tipped nonsense, you can report the location to the council using this link https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/home/transport-and-streets/report-problem-flytipping and someone will be along to deal with it.
As far as the litter pick that originally started the outing, I gathered lots and lots along Ockwells Road and Shoppenhangers Road. But sadly it was only the tip of the trashberg that covers Maidenhead.
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What a shame really... And this happens quite regularly along that road and the other side of the overpass over A404 🥴 Well done Matthew for reporting it!
Nice job Matthew!
Well done Matthew. Frustrating but at least you’re doing something about it.
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