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West environment survey results Mountain of litter cleared
A questionnaire circulated to households in West Swindon last Suzanne Bullimore of the Sparcells and Peatmoor Community Asso-
August and September by the Community Working Group of the ciation writes
21st Century Swindon Forum has produced calls for better street Thank you to all who supported Peatmoor Lagoon on Easter Mon-
cleaning, transport, bus services and recycling. the litter-clearing morning around day. A huge amount of rubbish
It followed similar surveys in was collected, including a deck-
Highworth and Gorse Hill to gauge Put those old phone books to good use chair and an old car seat, and full
up to date opinions on environ- New 'phone books and Yellow Pages have been delivered which bags were exchanged for Easter
ment issues at a community level means 150 tonnes of waste could be recycled if Swindon household- eggs. Thanks to Asda for gener-
and the results have been passed ers use special recycling bins at the West Swindon Centre and ously donating them.
to Swindon Council's transport Sainsbury's Stratton to get rid of the old ones. Please contribute to the beauty
planning, waste management and of the lakeside by taking all rub-
environmental health sections. If the 150,000 old directories and bish home with you.
Respondents called for: Yellow Pages are recycled, it will
• better removal of litter, dog save energy, raw materials and
waste, and graffiti and better street landfill space, as well as around un4IOW wife
cleaning; provision of legal graffiti £4,000 in landfill tipping fees.
areas; Ordinary phone books can be EXTRA
• reliable bus services with put in the normal paper banks to
friendly staff; buses to Wroughton, be recycled as tissue, newspapers Events at STEAM in May
Marlborough, PMH and the new and packaging. Wednesday 3rd, 1lam & 2.30pm
hospital; weekend and evening But Yellow Pages are more diffi- Toddler Special. Activities and
cultbecause of the dye and need to
services; storytelling
• clean and well lit cycle and pe- be specially collected for shred- Saturday 12th
destrian ways; more pedestrian ding into animal bedding for sta- Bins the book now at the West Swin- Meet the railway workers. Prac-
bridges over major roads bles and farms. The special bins don Centre, Swindon recycling officer tical demonstrations and experi-
• plastics recycling; collection of will be available until mid-May. with centre manager Julian Leggatt ences from former engine drivers,
recyclables; more information on firemen and railway workers.
recyclability; Christmas recycled into new trees
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th
• more youth activities, but more Christmas will be much greener in future, thanks to the 850,000 cards
policing and less tolerance of anti- that were recycled across the town in January. We'll Meet Again. Find out what
life was like during the Second
social behaviour; With backing from the 21st Century Swindon Forum, Homebase, World War, with jazz band, jitter-
• grass cutting and pruning of Swindon Council and Severnside Waste Paper, over 14 tons were bug dancing and spam sandwich
trees and hedges in all areas and collected. The money raised will be used to buy 850 trees for the Great tasting.
particularly at road sides and Western Community Forest, to be planted in the Autumn.
roundabouts. For details of the community forest go to www.gwestcf.org.uk or call Normal admission charges for all
Dr Dave Worsnip, chairman of Andrea Riding on 466315. events. For details call 466646.
the community working group,
said the survey had not raised
major surprises. i vet 0 .
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