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Work Party Report: Sunday 12th February 2006World of Glass, Annual Canal Clean-up, St. Helens Weather - rain all day. On a cold and very wet Sunday morning 6 volunteers braved the inclement weather to clear out the section of canal from Tesco supermarket to the railway embankment just beyond the World of Glass. The World of Glass had provided three skips and it wasn't long before the first supermarket trolley was pulled from the murky depths of the Sankey. By mid-day we had worked our way from The World of Glass to Tesco’s Supermarket and had pullout a varied collection of stuff that included:-
After our break for dinner we turned our attention to the railway embankment, where all the floating litter tends to collect. This was raked together and piled on the bank to drain, before being loaded into the skips. Once everywhere had been swilled down and the area checked and left clean and tidy we went home. Many thanks to all the volunteers. No Work Party has been organised for March.
Some of our volunteers, drenched, but still smiling
(Above and below) There was a long-running thread on the Internet newsgroup, uk.rec.waterways, on the subject of supermarket trolleys which end up in the country's canals, where they can prove a hazard to navigation, especially if they become entangled in a boat's propeller. TESCOs in particular have been criticised in this discussion, and have been castigated for not helping to reduce the problem by having coin-in-slot trolleys. There are no TESCO trolleys in our photographs - we pulled four out, and an employee from their Car Park Security immediately accepted responsibility for them and took them away. So full marks to TESCO, St. Helens for taking prompt action. As for coin-in-the-slot trolleys... you can see from the pics that many of those in view have such mechanisms, and yet they still end up dumped in the canal.
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