We had a big litter pick on 22 March 2025.
A great turn out by Debenham Green Team for the Spring Clean for Mother Earth , this morning ! 59kgs of assorted ,which coulda shoulda been in bins – binned woulda protect wildlife .Keep plastics and other materials from polluting water , blocking waterways , entering the food chain – please , don’t drop stuff !
Thanks to St Mary’s church , MSDC and Keep Britain Tidy for support . Spread the word please everyone , bag it , bin it, stop the drop !!
Thank you to everyone who was able to contribute their time and effort to Saturday’s litter pick!
If you weren’t able to join us, I expect we’ll be out again in October – and thank you to those people who pick up all year round too, brilliant.
If you can let me know any regular things you do, I can share that in the Parish magazine article .
Thank you of course, to Ben and Sue , contractors, without whom we’d have even more litter on our streets!
There is equipment in the larger grey shed at the Primary school, which can be used anywhere by anyone.
Please remember , keep yourself and others safe , with hi vis, gloves, watching out for traffic , not opening anything, not lifting anything heavy and being careful underfoot!
Yesterday…I’d love it if I could say we all came back with nothing, however…. we collected approx 62 kg including fire extinguisher, bottles and cans.
There are still grot spots out there, ditches on Gracechurch St and Ipswich Road , for example.
Hopefully, between us we can see and clear some of these between now and October.
Approx 40 people took part, including people who set off the day before or early, or were behind the scenes, so the photo attached shows most but not all of the team.
Thank you to Adrienne (posters) , Rupert ,Tony and Lucy (road signs and many other before and after jobs) Jo ,Moo and Betty (refreshments).- this event wouldn’t happen without you !
Historic crisp packet (2009) was found by Sandra , and Jo had a tale to tell of a space between hedge and fence, with kilos of decades of food packaging placed there en route to the school – it would seem !! But a bin nearby and our school children being more aware and educated, has helped to change that habit.
I’ve contacted Seers and Denbury homes re litter in their area.
Thank you so much to the team who finally got that tattered black bin bag out of the tree opposite the Guildhall.
Michael Rosen called such litter ‘witches knickers’ but that doesn’t make plastic blowing in the wind any more romantic , imo!!
If you have any ideas you’d like to share ,or would like to lead a litter pick with a group, please let me know and I can offer the guidance sheets or any other help you would like.
And of course, we’ll carry on trying to get the message out there, to Stop the Drop, of anything !! Love where you live-planet Mother Earth !
