Help our parks have a clean start to the New Year

Next time you visit a park, please take a look around you – do you like what you see?

It is common to find litter full of broken bottles, paper, plastics and other items in the parks that was left behind by visitors.

Delta Park Environmental Centre resident manager Geoff Lockwood advises the public to keep park clean.

“People visiting parks should carry their own trash bags and take them with when they are going home so the rubbish does not lie in the park.”

Visitors can make the parks filthy.

With the festive season in full swing, a little family picnic sounds great for most families, however, the public is urged to please be mindful of strewing litter.

Pippa Wepener, Friends of Golden Harvest Park committee member said, “Pikitup has skeleton staff around this time of year, so I would advise people to please clean up after themselves and carry their own trash so that they can dispose of their rubbish at home.”

Greenbelt Communities founder Cristina Owen suggested that residents bring packets with them on their walks and collect bits and pieces of litter as they see them. “It might not be lots, but every bit helps.”

“Secondly, I think that it is a matter that all residents should be involved in. Why not allocate an hour in the day that your gardener is with you to ask him to also clean the park, for a little more. Imagine if everyone did that.”

The parks are ours and assets to our neighbourhoods – let’s own them!