People from Salford came together for Clean Up Sunday to clean up Ordsall Lane.
Locals says the area continues to be a fly-tipping ground but volunteers from all over attended the clean-up, arguing that locals need to play a role in ensuring their communities are clean.
Ben Thomas, a volunteer for Clean up Salford, a community litter-picking group, voiced his concern for the area. He said: “We all wander up around the streets and see litter everywhere, and we all want to live in an environment where we don’t have litter.
“Unfortunately, the council doesn’t have the funds, and we have to all come and do our part.”
Andy Salter, founder and chairman for Love Your Planet Salford, a volunteer-led group, added: “I can’t go out and see litter everywhere, this is my second year now and in that time I’ve picked over 2000 bags of litter, we have a huge problem in the Salford area.”
Salter explained that the cleaner an area is, the more reluctant people will be to drop that litter.
Paul Heilbron, representative of Salford liberal Democrats and chair of Clean up Quays community group, stated: “We have been to this exact spot three times this year, so we are now in November, and it already looks as if we have never came, so we need the council to do more and to do more as a community and residents need to change their habits.”
Heilbron also stated that within a week of the new Starbucks and McDonald’s grand opening in Quays, the area is already surrounded by litter.
Soon-to-be secretary for Salford Liberal Democrats, Oliver Scott stated, “Salford is an interesting place, it developed very quickly, I think you’ve got a lot of people who began to call this place home and it’s important we all take care of our community.”
A total of 58 bags were collected during Clean Up Sunday, the groups next pick up will be at Salford Quays on the 15th of December.
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