A COMMUNITY bid to clean up the streets of Petersfield was a great success, according to its organiser.
More than 40 volunteers answered a call by Beth Svarovska and The Petersfield Society to take out the trash.
Altogether they filled more than 60 bags while a clean-up along Rival Moor Road provided some kitchen sink drama.
“A basin was probably the strangest thing we found but we also found someone’s medical card which I posted back to the address on the back,” said Beth, who describes herself as the ‘litter picking’ arm of The Petersfield Society.
“We found lots of plastic bottles and empty fast food containers. It’s usually people eating on the move and deciding not to leave their litter in their cars.”
A wide age range of people from young children to pensioners joined the ‘big clean’ with equipment provided by East Hampshire District Council.
Beth added: “We didn’t manage to cover the whole town but we did cover some areas we hadn’t done in depth before.
“There was a lot of litter in certain places that had got embedded quite deep down so it felt like we were really cleaning up some mucky patches like the far end of The Causeway.
“We also cleaned the verges along Heath Road East and Sussex Road, which we hadn’t done before, and it was good because there was a lot of litter that built up over the years.”
The latest effort, on August 5, which was followed by a talk from Councillor Julie Butler on East Hampshire District Council’s bid to clamp down on litter, means that volunteers have now filled 154 bags in 12 months.
Another litter pick is planned in late October.