From Trash Mound To Garbage Bag Mountain

4 Goodgymers helped their local community in Redbridge
Elizabeth
Linda Sharman
Sharon Graham
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Redbridge

Sunday 1st December 2019

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Four of Redbridge’s finest ploggers arrived to help clear litter from the access lane to the local Sports Centres. As we enthusiastically started clearing the litter from what appeared to be a grassy mound it soon became apparent that the mound was layers of garden waste and more litter underneath. Clearly we were not going to clear this in one visit but it didn’t stop us doing our best.

The lovely Liz worked tirelessly clearing all sorts of rubbish and taking on the role of main photographer, particularly of the more interesting pickings among which were number plates-yes we have reported these and the wallet full of ID/credit cards to the police-, a scooter, condom still in its wrapper and a £10 note spotted by the eagle eyed Sharon-this will be going towards more bin bags and litter picks for next visit. It was good to see our Dharmesh after a long absence from Redbridge GG he said we should return to this task with some tools for cutting back the overgrowth too, we will hold you to that Dharmesh 😃

After an hour and a half we had run out of the pack of 20 bin bags we’d taken which were now neatly stacked up by the roadside. Honorary GG Redbridge member Ed kindly assisted with the removal of the bags to the local recycling centre. Unofficial Unofficial GG Redbridge Mascot Max the Dog was unable to assist due to injury but he did manage to make Liz fall in love with him 🐶



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Redbridge runner

Sun 1st Dec 2019 at 3:38pm

Great report and lovely to be back to see you all

Elizabeth

Sun 1st Dec 2019 at 6:32pm

Lovely report, Linda :)

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