The trail of danger left by litter louts
A 79-YEAR-OLD woman spent hours of the Bank Holiday weekend picking up other people’s rubbish in a park in Hillingdon, after groups left plastic bottles, barbecues and broken glass sprawled across the field.
Jackie, a retired lady living in the area, walks across Hillingdon House Farm Sports Ground every morning with her dogs, picking up whatever she can.
While picking up other people’s litter is not a new activity for her, Bank Holiday barbecues in the area saw the elderly lady packing up sacks of rubbish for over an hour on Sunday, April 4.
And that was for the third day that week.
Now, Jackie’s daughter Karen, who walks with her mum, has just about had enough.
Plastic bottles, barbecues and broken glass sprawled across the field in Hillingdon House Farm Sports Ground. A dog is also stood near the litter, and the family are concerned broken glass will cause harm to their dogs and others
She told MyLondon: “My parents walked these fields with their German Shepherds daily for over 50 years. Many other dog walkers use the fields too. They always picked up bags of rubbish, but it’s got so much worse.
“Drink bottles, glass smashed, balloons and gas canisters, drug paraphernalia and disposable BBQs which are hot and scorching the grass.
“I’m mad that we have to do this at all, but during the pandemic I feel that these selfish people who can carry their supplies down to the fields, are now putting her life in danger because they are too lazy to pick it up and take back to the bins.
“Why should she pick up things that others have drunk and eaten from when they shouldn’t even be out there under current Covid rules?”
Karen said they contacted the council to come and collect the litter, but said “nobody answered the phone for over an hour”.
“So my mother, 79 years old, took 79-YEAR-OLD PICKS UP RUBBISH LEFT IN PARK black sacks back and packed it all up to clear up your s**t!!! herself. It took her over an hour.” “Excuse the language but when
The 52-year-old daughter took to the council mow the grass and break social media to share her anger with the bottles, that puts all our dogs’ the community, and it was met with feet in danger too.” a huge response. Other residents joined to share
Posting on Facebook, Karen said: their frustrations about the “disgusting” “If you ‘six’ people coming into the behaviour.
Fields in Uxbridge can carry your “People must think we are a borough beer boxes and vodka bottles down of pigs,” one commented. there, you should be able to collect The easing of lockdown rules the rubbish and take it back to a bin. together with the warm weather has third day running this has happened seen a spike in litter stranded across and my 79-year-old mother is trying parks in London.