BULLETIN
Mid December 2014
Photo: Volunteers on the bed of the Regent’s Canal at the London Region clean-up, 22nd November
Tonnes and Tonnes of Rubbish An Autumn of IWA Canal Clean-ups has taken place with eleven days of events organised by IWA branches around the country between 21st September and 23rd November. During the two month period 20 miles of towpath were cleared of litter and vegetation and 17 miles of canal bed were grappled for rubbish. The clean-ups took place in eight cities on eight different waterways over eleven days,
with Birmingham, Leicester, London, Nottingham, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Warwick all benefitting from the campaign. The clean-ups were supported by CRT and local organisations, who supplied six work boats across the eleven days of events, along with some workboats supplied by a city council for one of the events. As well as the usual bicycles, shopping trolleys, motorbikes and tyres, among the more unusual items were a camera, a lamppost, an office chair and a huge number of fence panels.
Over the nine weeks, 317 volunteers contributed a whopping total of 1634 volunteer hours to cleaning up the city canals around the waterway network. The volunteers included IWA members and non-members alike, along with members of other waterway organisations and Cubs and Scouts.
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