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I sent this article to the newspaper after I was fed up with people using a ditch beneath a small wooden bridge on the lower path in Overtoun Estate Woods as a rubbish dump. In fact, I found that this area overall was the worst frequently affected place in the woods by litter. As a result (even after the article was broadcast), people (mainly kids or youths) still kept on throwing litter into the ditch which meant I had to litter pick in the ditch a total of 4 times. For now, since the beginning of Autumn 2015, everyone has finally got the message but you never know how much litter will return once the good weather does. This is read as:

 

"Although the amount of

litter in Overtoun Estate 

Woods has overall gone down

signifcantly (do text me on

07462167433 or email me at

jrainey94@gmail.com if you

see an area of the woods that

needs cleaning up), there

is just one exception on the

lower path between the green

gates at Campbell Avenue 

and Overtoun House and that

involves the ditch over a small

wooden bridge.

The amount of litter thrown from

the bridge is absolutely horrendous;

apart from the huge amount of

bottles, cans and crisp/sweet packets,

there were small candles (placed

perfectly side by side on the bridge

to light up the night for the last few

days) that have sadly been kicked off

the bridge into the ditch along with

their wax split in what

seems to be tears of sorrow, maybe by

children or adolescents who appear

to have nothing else to do but make

the waste problem worse.

I mean what's the matter? Are you

actually scared of bins? That must

explain why you are so flamin' lazy!

Now I know you're reading this and

thinking, "well, you're a litter picker,

go down there and get it cleaned up!".

If you go down under the bridge, the

task to clear away the litter is not that

simple: the soil is quite slippery and

the gradient is very steep which won't

make my efforts to clean up the area 

easy.

Now I am not going to ask random

strangers to strap me to a rope to

help me down the hill and lower a big

bucket for me to put the litter in (to

be fair, it would benefit me a lot!) but

there will have to be a safe way for me

to get down the hill without sliding all

the way down to the Gruggies Burn.

For now, please can you respect this beautiful but at times

dangerous part of the woods?

#CleanUpOvertounWoods"

 

 

 

 

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