litter

Story by Karen Malone | Photos by Karen and Eimear-Rae Hopefully you will have noticed a cleaner looking Pitsmoor over the past year as some local residents stopped moaning about litter and have taken it [Read more]

Local resident Malcolm Camp has set up a Just Giving page to raise money for bins for vulnerable residents. Malcolm, a member of the Pitsmoor Pickers group, says: “Weʼre raising £250 to provide black bins [Read more]

Local Burngreave resident and Pitsmoor litter picker Karen Malone was moved recently by the work of the Roma community after they cleared streets of litter in their area. Writing on Facebook, Karen said on the [Read more]

Story by Malcolm Camp. I’ve heard people say, “There’s no point bothering cos our area’s a sh** **le!” I realised it wouldn’t take long to reverse that opinion – picking up the worst of it, [Read more]

Story by  Daniel Marsh Oasis Academy Fir Vale held a week of events aimed at recycling and litter awareness for pupils, staff, and parents. The events took place from 3rd February until 7th February in [Read more]

Story and Pictures by Deborah Blencowe Since the last issue of The Burngreave Messenger and following on from the front page article “Ellesmere Cleans Up” there have been a further two clean up sessions which [Read more]

Story and photos by Sahdya Ali. Our new litter picking group held our first litter pick at Ellesmere Park on Saturday 16th November. There were sixteen wonderful volunteers on the day. We did get some [Read more]

Story by Kevin Stapleton | Photo courtesy of Oasis Academy Fir Vale Oasis Academy Fir Vale held a week of events for pupils, staff and parents to raise awareness of recycling, picking up litter and [Read more]

Story by Lucy Davies | Photos by Fran Belbin and Safiya Saeed If you were out and about on the roads around Rock Street, Melrose Road and Spital Hill on Saturday 18th May, you might [Read more]

Story and photos by Deborah Blencowe Saturday 30th March 2019 I arrived on Earl Marshall Road at 10am for a little pick that had been arranged. The event was well attended and co-ordinated by our [Read more]

Story by Tamikka Reid | Photo by Kim The Page Hall street wardens, more formally known as environmental enforcement officers, have been patrolling the area – as well as Grimesthorpe, Darnall and Tinsley – with [Read more]

Story by Deborah Blencowe | Photo by Philip Blencowe The Wildlife Trust last met on Monday 3rd September and did their usual clear up of Crabtree Ponds. The picture shows the lovely state of the [Read more]

Story and top photo by Deborah Blencowe | Litter art photo courtesy of Endeavour Over 100 people turned out for the Sheffield Litter Pickers organised pick around Firth Park Road and Page Hall on Saturday [Read more]

Story by Deborah Blencowe and Sam | Photo by Deborah Blencowe The issues of litter, fly tipping and abandoned rubbish generally has been brought up once again. I was approached by a local resident who [Read more]