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Sunderland’s Great British Spring Clean Up
National World - LocalTV
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27/03/2025
Sunderland is actively participating in the Great British Spring Clean, a nationwide initiative aimed at tidying up local environments
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As part of the Great British Spring Clean, organised litter picks are scheduled across
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various locations in Sunderland and residents are encouraged to join these efforts to help
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make the city cleaner and greener. Today I attended one at Silksworth Ski Slope and Sports
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Complex where volunteers from the RSPCA gathered at 10.30am ready to tidy up the area.
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So here today we're doing a litter pick for the Great British Spring Clean but with
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all RSPCA volunteers and staff here today. We've also got a gentleman with us from
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LinkedIn to the Sunderland Council as well helping us too.
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So we're thinking of it as well as the community, the wildlife in the area that we really want
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to help. Unfortunately the RSPCA gets 10 calls about animals affected by litter every single
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day on average and that's the animals that get found. A lot of animals that are affected
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by litter just unfortunately don't get found by members of the public that can report it.
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So by picking up things like cans, bags, elastic bands, that kind of thing, it just means that
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we're creating a nicer environment for the wildlife especially coming into this spring
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season where we're going to have baby animals and that kind of thing being born or hatched.
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We want to make sure that they're safe. We really want to empower the public to be able
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to do their bit with regard to helping animals and also our local community by keeping it
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nice and tidy and safe for the animals that live there.
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You know just simple things like putting your rubbish in the bin. The RSPCA recently released
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a video about the things you can do to make sure your rubbish is safe when it is disposed
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of. Things like crushing your cans so that animals can't get their heads stuck in it
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or snipping elastic bands on things so that again animals don't get caught. There's lots
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of little things. Again disposing of fishing wire. There's always a big one when it comes
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to water animals as well. There's loads of things that people can do to help the animals
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and their local communities and as I say we really want to empower people to be able
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to do that for themselves so that we just create a better world for all animals really.
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Councillor Lindsay Leonard, Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport and Net Zero expressed
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enthusiasm about the community's involvement, highlighting while most residents take pride
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in their surroundings, collective efforts are essential to maintain a clean and safe
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city. She acknowledged the council's commitment to enforcing against littering and fly-tipping
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while also promoting community-led initiatives.
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My name's John Lane and I'm a ranger. Basically I'm funded by the council but work for Youth
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Almighty Project and my role is to make the area a better place by litter picking, getting
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rid of graffiti, going into schools, planting bulbs with the children, putting planters around
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the area and doing litter picks, community litter picks in parks and things like today.
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Basically just trying to keep the local area in a better condition than it was.
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