7.6 tonnes of fly-tipping, dumped rubbish and litter have been removed from an Eccles neighbourhood as part of a council effort to make the city cleaner and greener.
Crews worked across the neighbourhood off Liverpool Road, Eccles on Wednesday 25 September to clean the area as part of the second Day of Action set up by Cleaner Greener Salford.
Councillor Barbara Bentham, Lead Member for Neighbourhoods, Environment and Community at Salford City Council said: “Residents are telling us that cleaner, greener neighbourhood are a priority for them, so we’ve ensured that we’re taking action, giving them places that they can be proud of.
“The days of action are in addition to our day to day work and we’ll be doing them monthly in different parts of the city.”
During the clean-up , the team swept 12 streets across Eccles, collected 4.4 tonnes of waste using mini-sweeper equipment, cleared and cleaned nine entries along with eight street signs and public waste bins and finally, three lots of graffiti have all been cleaned.
Three skips have been provided for residents to use and in a result, a total of 1.94 tonnes of waste was collected.
One local Eccles resident, John, said: “The work the council is doing to make the alleyways more accessible and cleaner, part of the community and make it look good is a wonderful thing.”
But that is just the start of the city becoming greener and allowing Salford residents to take pride in where they live. The next days of action will be in Broughton and Kersal, with more to come in other parts of the city next year.
