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Hanwell litter

This is from a poster on Facebook Hanwell Friends group and he asked me to post it here for him.Keith Freegard20 March at 09:46I picked 2 bags of litter today between Viaduct and Hanwell locks. At least 80% of the littered items are drinking related. All are tins of strong eastern european branded lagers - like Zubr; Tuskie;Walkizch;Debaum etc. the rest of litter is energy drinks, vodka and beer bottles plus snack food wraps, burger n chips , then smoking and drug related packs. So the 'target market' for any focussed behavior change is well-defined :-'Drinkers buying strong eastern EU branded lager from local shops who like to gather in parks and consume vast amounts of booze while smoking and eating fast food.'Oh and also members of this social group with very low respect for society and the environment ( most of them I guess). I also think there is some strange and twisted symbolism going on here, so that the very obvious pile of discarded cans is making a statement to the rest of the community. Maybe a sort of ' look at us, we can do what we like and do not accept your petty rules of living in a community'.... but I find it impossible to understand the minds of people who do this.Anyway - can the local council put some targetted effort into preventing the litter caused by this small group of offenders in our locality? maybe work with the shops who sell the drink n food? maybe offer incentives to get the blighters to pick up the littered drink cans? Maybe tour parks in evenings to indentify the drinking groups? Or maybe just allow those who pick up litter ( there ARE lots of us) to carry on sorting the symptons of this social disease.

Graham Weeks ● 3297d2 Comments

the issue needs to be reported to safercommunities@ealing.go.uk and cc Ranjit DHEER DheerR@ealing.gov.uk who is the portfolio holder for safer communities. The issue needs to be logged as antisocial behaviour(street drinking). In an ideal world photos of the litter aftermath should be included.

Kris Smith ● 3296d

Keith also asked me to post Hanwell Friends reaction to his post and I do this without identifying posters.Money back on cans and bottles are the only way. The industry doesnt want to do it. But if you were throwing 10 or 20 p each time perhaps you woudn'tFirstly thank you Keith you have given me inspiration to do the same around my area of Allenby road Greenford. We have the same issue especially with having a church with benches in front of my flat seems to attract a lot of drinkers who then throw bottles, cans and fast food take out boxes into my front garden! I'm not sure what the Council will be willing to do I've emailed them so many times and have reached a dead end! I think taking action of my own meaning getting a black bag and picking up the rubbish myself....In Australia you get back 5 cents for every can or bottle it's not much but it still adds up if you don't have a income. It's about time the government started to do this over here. Keith, you could raise this with your local Safer Neighbour Sergeant, he could apply for a Controlled Drinking Zone order in the area. Makes it an offence to drink alcohol from any open container and an offence not to surrender such alcohol to designated officers when required to do so. I had success with this when in Highgate area. Good luck and thanks for caring.Brilliant keith. Much kudos. I know when I go to elthorne there is regularly some high strength important lager cans by certain benches and in sandy park there are always take away and pop bottles by the benches. I have never managed a whole bin bag though!There is a key piece of Producer Responsibility legislation that makes all producers and retailers of packaging responsible for the cost of collection and recycling at end of life. So it IS relevent to know if the brands that contribute to high levels of litter ARE in fact registered to be active on the UK market and meeting their fiscal obligations.Thank you for clearing up. The street drinkers need to be held to  Bring back proper old fashioned patrolling park keepers with a little house in the park to live in. It worked fine.Conolly Dell in Hanwell is constantly strewn with alcohol related detritus. Smashed bottles across the paths sadly also come as standard. The beautiful water features look depressingly abused too - beer cans and broken fencing floating up & down. it's the wildlife .....our dogs and children I feel sorry for. there r so many times I have had to avoid broken glass whilst walking my dogs....quite often broken vodka bottlesAgree about connelly dell, it could be so beautiful and has recently had a lot of money spent on doing it up yet the water is filled with cans and rubbish and fence bron.ken.Keith Freegard today I cleared 6 beer bottles Desparados brand (ironic - coz it felt pretty desperate!) from the bench at top of Churchfields near the church, plus several cans and tobacco bags.. dirty rotten bast**rds!Keith Freegard How can we get this very active post in front of Ealing Council as a way to express our shared concern for this issue in the hanwell community? I can not see how to 'share' posts - Admin ? can you hep to copy this story to Ealing Waste & Recycling team ??

Graham Weeks ● 3297d