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Did a sweep of Stanage Popular and Plantation (the crag not the boulders) last night. Mostly finger tape, fag butts, electrician's tape and those markers from the end of ropes.
 
Forgot to get a pickie, but I took 4 big green binbags of garden waste that had been dumped over the fence at the Lady Cannings layby back into Sheffield and binned.

Seb G doesn't know it, but I put them in his bin, cheers Seb :whistle:
 
Four full black bin bags from Millstone this evening.

Turns out there's no bin in the Surprise View car park so anything you collect has to be driven home. :yuk:
 
Fine effort sir. I've collected stuff on the way back from millstone before (including numerous shit bags) only to find there is no bin at the car park so had to carefully put them in the footwell. Seems crazy that thereis no bin at such a honey pot place.
 
SamT said:
Seems crazy that thereis no bin at such a honey pot place.

I believe the logic is that having a bin would require council resources to empty it regularly, otherwise it would fill up and overflow, blow around and litter the surrounding area. By not having one the expectation is that people simply take home what they bought with them.
 
cheque said:
Four full black bin bags from Millstone this evening.

Turns out there's no bin in the Surprise View car park so anything you collect has to be driven home. :yuk:

Thats bizarre as theres even an ice cream van up there some days....
 
slackline said:
SamT said:
Seems crazy that thereis no bin at such a honey pot place.

I believe the logic is that having a bin would require council resources to empty it regularly, otherwise it would fill up and overflow, blow around and litter the surrounding area. By not having one the expectation is that people simply take home what they bought with them.

But in reality cunts will just chuck their sealed bags of dogshit into he trees.
 
cheque said:
Four full black bin bags from Millstone this evening.

Turns out there's no bin in the Surprise View car park so anything you collect has to be driven home. :yuk:

Full on good effort :punk:

+1
 
tomtom said:
cheque said:
Four full black bin bags from Millstone this evening.

Turns out there's no bin in the Surprise View car park so anything you collect has to be driven home. :yuk:

Thats bizarre as theres even an ice cream van up there some days....

The ice cream van brings its own bin/box
 
Another member of this parish (according to FB) had issues where an ice cream van / stall owner wouldn't let him dispose of litter he'd picked up nearby in his bin.
 
It's an issue for sure. I filled one bag myself then found two massively overfilled bags of barbecue rammel hidden just out of sight near the Keyhole Cave clearing. I don't know if it was the barbecuers themselves who'd bagged it up or a fellow do-gooder but they hadn't been bothered to carry them out- they were too heavy to carry without decanting their contents into other bags anyway.

As I took it all to the carpark there was a massive (like 50-60 people) gathering forming at the top of the edge for what I assume was a birthday party or similar (middle class families with helium balloons ready to release amongst other things) and I was muttering under my breath about how they'd better take their litter home.

The next morning there was a new, neatly-tied full bin bag left at the car park entrance for non-existent binmen to collect. :wall:
 
cheque said:
helium balloons ready to release

Pretty litter. Pretty deadly litter.

http://www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do/Clean+seas+and+beaches/Campaigns+and+policy/Don't+let+go+-+balloons+and+sky+lanterns
 
Picked up 4 bags of dogshit by the gate at Topley Pike yesterday (no convient tree nearby to dangle them from :-\), and filled a couple of plastic bags with rubbish from the layby.

Talking of those balloons/lanterns, when I went to Turningstone Edge a few years ago, there were loads of them at the top of the crag. Anyone else noticed this? Just a coincidence there were loads there at once or do they regularly end up there due to aspect/prevailing wind direction etc?
 
We found a balloon from the University of York on Scafell this summer. Wish we'd sent it to them in the post now to allow them to dispose of it properly.
 
Was at Woodhouse Scar on Sunday and even for there it's in a right state - loads of rubbish, and even a couple of roadworks barriers that have been bunged over the edge down to the crag.


There was also broken glass on the tops of a fair few boulders round the warmup slabs at the top end.


I first went to Woodhouse as part of a crag cleanup a few years back - what would be the ins and outs of organising another such thing? Approach the BMC?
 
ROKT did the last one... I helped as well... the tramp's cave was my favourite bit... unique bouquet.
 
Nice to see this thread going strong. Saw a post on the Facebook today of some fine people who cleaned up jess' roof at the cliff. I've started stashing unwanted shopping bags in coat pockets and rucksacks instead of the kitchen this year so I've always got one handy.three bags and a child's inflatable from the river bank last week. We also did a beach at home in Devon this summer with the kids. When we went home the environment agency were there to do the same as us. They were amazed how little rubbish there was and were chalking it up as a success story; then we handed them two bin bags and emptied our pockets of bits of plastic lighters and other misc pieces. All good fun. More pieces of plastic in the sea than fish forecasted in the next 20 years they reckon. Fewer jonnies and towels floating about though these days so props to the EA.
 


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