World Clean Up Day 2019

We will be starting in Hounslow House at 10am, and walking along Bath Road to Marriott Hotel, arriving between 12.30-1pm, picking up litter along the way.

Let’s have a good turn out, make this a useful and memorable day, and be proud of achieving a good result, and also a good get-together.

Let’s do our bit in Hounslow…

Cleaner Greener Hounslow

I just wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your interest in, and commitment to the cleaner, greener borough workshops held on the 15th and 29th June.

Following on from the connections made over the course of the two Saturday sessions, we’re supporting local neighbourhood blitzes and working with individuals who wanted to develop greening projects.  In a similar vein, with the declaration of a climate emergency at Borough Council, we will also be working with interested residents to develop a climate change action plan.

As we all recall, there were a broad range of ideas and proposals put forward.  There’s still lots to be done in order to see your proposals have the greatest possible impact.  If we haven’t already done so, we’ll be in touch with everyone who proposed an idea or a more thought-through proposal.  We will also be sharing those proposals on our social media channels, so please do take a moment to share them with your networks and get more people interested in the ideas you want to make happen in your local area.

Once again, thank you very much indeed for coming along, for engaging with the issue, and for providing such a range of passionately-argued proposals to improve the borough.  Here’s to a successful ongoing collaboration!

Very best wishes,

Paul 

On behalf of the Cleaner, Greener Team

Dr Paul Probert,

Head of Policy, Scrutiny and Intelligence,

Hounslow House,

London Borough of Hounslow

Bath Road Clean Up

The hotels at Heathrow were out in force Plogging today as part of the Great British Spring Clean campaign from Keep Britain Tidy.  Eager volunteers from the London Heathrow Marriott, Sheraton Skyline, Sheraton Heathrow and Heathrow Windsor Marriott walked the length of Bath Road starting at Sheraton Heathrow and finishing at the London Heathrow Marriott collecting litter along the way. They were joined by Clean Up Hounslow a volunteer organisation and together the team of 31 volunteers collected over 50 bags of rubbish along the 6.4 mile stretch of Bath Road from Hounslow to Harmondsworth. After their busy morning, the team were treated to a delicious roof top lunch prepared by the London Heathrow Marriott.

#GBSpringClean  

https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/get-involved/support-our-campaigns/great-british-spring-clean

Spring Clean!

SPRING CLEAN MONTH
THURSDAY 18 April 2019
Clean Up Hounslow Team in joint venture with Marriotts Hotel , Bath Road , Heathrow.

10:00 Assemble outside HOUNSLOW HOUSE , new civic centre , near Yates pub

Gear ourselves

10:10 Depart and walk down Bath Road towards airport
( anyone who’s late can always catch us up )

12:30 pm – 1 pm
Aim to arrive at Marriot Hotel, Bath Road .

Thereafter enjoy General Managers Hospitality at Marriot Hotel .

Team – if anyone who cannot join us for the clean up walk , I suggest they come and meet the team at Marriott Hotel . It will be good to meet Marriot’s team too as they regular do these sort of events , including “plogging” *

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plogging

Clean Up Hounslow – Rubbish Be Gone!

Meeting!

Thursday, 4th October, 2018

Below is a proposed framework for this meeting, to be held at the Marriot Hotel, Bath Road, Harlington at 7pm.

Introduction as per Mike –  organisation’s delegated Nomination for Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer (?)

1. Review clean up & walk with MP day : moving forward  – what exactly can we expect MP to influence in her own capacity’ – such as crime prevention by visible police presence in Borough – currently not to be seen anywhere?
2.  The councillor names/duties who are  directly in charge of Borough Wards & discuss how to make them aware of their responsibilities and existence of our group (ref : very useful information in Richard’s email- I did not know any of these),    include names , contacts on website?
3. This website – Ideas or suggestions?
4. Main discussion – discuss agenda/ time for Steve Curran meeting : examples – below suggestions for Steve/ council to :
i. display crime prevention type signpostings in hot spots and around  chicken/fast food/grocer shops, etc
ii. Campaign strongly against irresponsible businesses and any community groups – who leave litters on roads.
iii. Make councillors take direct ownership of clean Hounslow agenda in their individual wards
iv. Educational Campaign  for responsible disposal of litters for an environmentally friendly Borough – targeting  tenants, owners, Businesses. Approach local Schools
v. Consider -persistent  over litter of some households/roads – if  indicator of overcrowding/unaccounted residents in the Borough – how to ?
vi. discuss disparity in standard of cleansiness and road maintenance around the Borough  – one affects the other.
vii. Seek Help  for T shirts, flyers for Group
viii.  Hold high profile , all inclusive clean up Hounslow campaign at High street in front of Treaty Centre –  a week or two  before Christmas – at the height of shoppers/businesses day – invite councillors/MPs  be present
Any Other suggestions
5. AOB – Member meetings  – frequency etc/ constraints

World Clean Up Day

Clean Up DaYWe started at the site of the new Civic Centre near Bell Corner/Bath Road in Hounslow. We walked through to Cranford, picking up several bags of rubbish along the way. Some of the group started out from here, and a few other people joined us along the way. Clean Up Day

 

It is sad, but not really surprising how much rubbish is thrown about. Much of it is the invariably single-use packaging that accompanies fast food, but cigarette packets and particularly cigarette butts play a huge part in the amount of discarded and unsightly litter.

Clean Up Day

Grass verges along many areas of the Bath Road were unsightly, particularly around bus stops and near some fast food stores.