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Big 👏 to our office staff who have been stepping up to back-fill and support our crews who are working so incredibly hard at the moment.
Here are Sally and Hannah learning the ropes ♻️👍
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#metalmatters
. Don't forget to recycle drink cans, foil trays, empty aerosols, metal screw tops & wrapping foil:
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We’re pleased to support 8 new free public drinking water fountains due to be installed across
#Bristol
this month in a bid to fight plastic waste. The 1st will be unveiled on College Green today for
#NationalRefillDay
Cheers to that!
#RefillRevolution
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We wanted to take the time to thank our 180-strong crew of street cleansers who are working or on-call 365 days a year, 24 hours a day to keep Bristol clean 🙌 🚮
#BigTidy
#BristolCleanStreets
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Tonight Bristol Waste staff - wherever they are in the city - are clapping to show our appreciation to the wonderful individuals that make up the NHS and to appreciate other key workers who are helping to keep things going 👏
#ClapForNHS
#ClapForOurCarers
#ClapForKeyWorkers
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Mo & his other street cleansing colleagues work so incredibly hard helping to keep
#Bristol
’s 800 miles of streets & paths clean. We salute you Mo! He & his colleagues need our help by making sure that we ALL dispose of litter responsibly as we come out of the crisis
#NewNormal
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Don’t forget to tune into the new
@BBCOne
series
#WarOnPlastic
with
@HughFW
&
@itsanitarani
tonight! We very much enjoyed supporting the project & are looking forward to watching the 3 x 1 hour weekly episodes, starting tonight at 9pm 📺 More here:
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Have you seen workers like Russell waiting on the streets more regularly? To help with social distancing for our crews, loaders are meeting on-site so there is only one person in the cab. Thanks to all the crews for being so flexible at this difficult time 🙌
#HiddenHeroes
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The
#BigTidy
crew are clearing footpaths & pavements in residential areas which people use for their daily exercise. Improving accessibility by reclaiming pavement widths has always been one of the Big Tidy's goals, now more important than ever to aid social distancing.
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Deal of the day! We are now selling compost in our
#reuse
shop at the Avonmouth Reuse and Recycling Centre. The price is £1 for 15 litres and it’s 100%
#peatfree
and made from the garden waste collected from our sites. PAS100 specification if you’re interested!
#WasteNothing
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Anyone we know going for a
#plasticfreejuly
? Even if you can't completely give up plastic for the month, here are some tips to cut down.
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It's no easy task keeping the city's 800 miles of streets and paths clean. Please, let’s all do our bit and dispose of our litter responsibly 🚮
#BristolCleanStreets
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Thanks to our wonderful street cleansing crews who work so hard to keep the city’s 800 miles of streets and paths clean
#BristolCleanStreets
#OurDay
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Thank you to everyone putting signs up to support our crews. They love seeing them as they are out on their rounds. Thanks Bristol 🙌
Please make sure you continue supporting our fantastic
@BristolWaste
crews by sorting your recycling properly and getting your bins out on time. Thank you
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The
#BigTidy
crew have been cleaning tagging in Eastville this week. Here are some 'before' and 'after' pictures from Glenfrome Road. Give them a wave if you spot them 👋
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At the end of another year, we'd like to say thank you to our street cleansers who work day and night (including tonight and tomorrow morning) to keep our city clean and green. 💚
If you're out celebrating this evening, please remember to put your litter in a bin. Thank you.
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@Conservatives
This is incorrect. Bristol's kerbside recycling system has 5 containers, which are a green box, black box, blue bag, food caddy and general waste bin. You can learn more about this system here.
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SO MUCH gratitude to our business-as-usual crews 🙌
They are doing vital work here sweeping up broken glass from this cycle path in central
#Bristol
#BristolCleanStreets
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We did it!!! Bristol Waste,
@BristolCouncil
and every single volunteer that got involved are the winners of the Great British Soring Clean Award!!!! 🏆
#KBTConf
#GBSC
#bristolcleanstreets
#rubbishdates
@MarvinJRees
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Did you catch
@BBCTheOneShow
last night? Our friends at
@SASCampaigns
gathered
#plastic
from across the UK (including Bristol's
#AvonGorge
!) to help show us all how much of it litters our beaches and riversides - and endangers our local wildlife. Watch:
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A
#BigTidy
'before' & 'after' from Coronation Rd, Southville this morn where the crew have cleared overgrown vegetation to reclaim the full width of the pavement. Please report any street issues to
@bristolcouncil
at
#BristolCleanStreets
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We LOVED talking to
@hollywills
&
@Schofe
today! Thank you
@thismorning
for having us on as part of your Unsung Heroes. Here's to all the waste crews, across the country, who are all showing dedication, commitment & resilience during the pandemic. 👏👏
#Proud
#keyworkers
Thank you to recycling loader Craig and his colleagues around the country for everything that they're doing 👍
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Check out The Wall Of Thanks! 😍
A gallery of some of the lovely pictures and messages our crews have been given to say thanks for their hard work at this difficult time 🌈
#HiddenHeroes
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We're excited to support
@BBCOne
's
#WarOnPlastic
w/
@itsanitarani
@HughFW
(Mon June 10th, 9pm). The show includes residents of a street in
#Bristol
laying out all of their single-use plastic on the pavement in front of their houses
#ourplasticfeedback
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Shout out for our wonderful Street Cleansers and all the hard work they do!
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Here’s Mayor
@MarvinJRees
talking about
#BigTidy
, part of the
#BristolCleanStreets
campaign to bring the sparkle back to our streets
@BristolEaSteve
@BristolCouncil
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Get in a flap on
#recycling
day? Let this li'l bird help
#GetItSorted
by explaining what goes in each box. reTWEET for
#Bristol
& help us
#WasteNothing
♻️🐦🚮
@sunandmoon_anim
,
@jaydeadams
@BristolCouncil
,
@bristoleasteve
@MarvinJRees
@bbcbristol
@bristollive
,
@bristol247
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Tomorrow is
#NationalRefillDay
, helping prevent millions of single-use plastic bottles from polluting streets & oceans. Let’s make sure everyone, everywhere knows how easy it is to find water on the go. Have you
#GotTheBottle
? Share your reusable in action!
#RefillRevolution
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Every day is bin day for someone in the city! Go on dress up & you even might bring a smile to your neighbour’s face 😄
Send pictures please! 📷♻️
We're not returning for missed collections at the moment, so please make sure your bins & boxes are out by 6am
#ThatBinDayFeeling
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Enjoying the sun today? Please remember to take any waste you bring back home, or use a nearby bin. Public spaces are for everyone to enjoy - let's keep them tidy!
#BristolCleanStreets
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The crews have been really touched by your support. Here are just some of the lovely posters and messages that have been left for our crews, to keep a smile on their faces 👏😊🌈
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Need some more New Year inspiration? Meet
@Saralimback
: founder of
@EdibleBristol
. She explains how breathing new life into forgotten spaces can challenge attitudes to litter & how growing-your-own can change your perception of food waste:
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The results are in!
There has been a 16% increase in the amount of food waste collected in the month following the launch of the
#SlimMyWaste
#FeedMyFace
campaign.
Find out more of our exciting results below
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TW: racism and hate speech.
Our crews work hard to make our lives cleaner, safer, better. They have the right to work without fear of discrimination. Yet this is not always their reality. We will not tolerate abuse. We will challenge it. We will report it.
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Key workers from the
#BigTidy
crew have been cutting back overgrown vegetation & litter picking around Easton Leisure Centre. With
@bristolcouncil
we had planned a
#BristolCleanStreets
community clean up & cleaning up tagging by the footpath, but this has been postponed for now
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Our Albert Rd staff braved the cold yesterday to practice what we preach. In total, we collected 4 bags of recycling and 8 bags of rubbsih from around our site! Looking fwd to seeing what residents accomplish in their
#GBSpringClean
litter picks; tag us into your photos!
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We’re pleased to be making good use of items from our
#reuse
shop by donating them to
@StMungos
to be given to people who have just moved from homelessness into accommodation
#WasteNothing
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If we get a bit of 🌞this weekend, we hope you all have time to enjoy being outside in
#Bristol
's lovely parks and the harbourside. But please, please put your waste in a bin, or if it's full, take your waste & recycling home 🚮 Thanks everyone and enjoy!
#BristolCleanStreets
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From today
#Bristol
residents will be receiving a new blue bag for cardboard recycling. The bags are 100% recycled & recyclable, a world 1st for this type of bag. The new bag for cardboard will be rolled out across the city from today & will be completed by the end of Feb 2020 ♻️
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Good news! Plans for a brand-new Recycling Centre in South Bristol have been approved👍. It will also be home to a Reuse Shop; diverting good quality, pre-loved items (TVs, furniture) & making them available at low cost to residents.
#reuse
#wastenothing
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Can anyone guess what this van is packed with!? It’s all our litter picking packs for primary schools! This week we’re giving away 1000 litter pickers to Bristol primary schools. Get in touch at hello
@bristolwastecompany
.co.uk to collect
#BristolCleanStreets
@BristolCouncil
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Crews have been enjoying the doughnuts we received from
@krispykremeUK
earlier, a much-appreciated thanks for our amazing key worker crews who are working so hard during this unprecedented time 🌈
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Great
@sascampaigns
Avon Gorge litter pick at the weekend - almost 60 people & 50+ bags collected (1/2 recyclables).
#BristolCleanStreets
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Great to read that
@AldiUK
are phasing out black plastic, which cannot be sorted by the optical sorting systems we currently use in our plastics recycling. Aldi will be replacing the black plastic trays for recyclable clear plastic. Good one 👍
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Shout out for our street cleansing crews who work so hard to keep the city's 800 miles of streets & paths clean!
#BristolCleanStreets
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Such an inspiring piece of work by
@jodyartbristol
of the great
@GretaThunberg
, the activist who's been motivating citizens all over the world to fight
#climatechange
@Upfest
#ClimateCrisis
#Bristol
#WasteNothing
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Thanks to our dedicated
#BigTidy
crew who are working hard to keep the city clean, pictured here in Arley Hill, Cotham. Support our key workers by making a Big Tidy pledge to show your street some love once lockdown is over:
#BristolCleanStreets
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The
#BigTidy
is in addition to our business as usual crews who at the moment are working under incredibly difficult and unprecedented circumstances. Our street cleansing crews clean 800 miles of road a year - they are working hard to keep the city clean
#BristolCleanStreets
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It's been a wet and windy day but the
#BigTidy
crew are still smiling as they work to bring the sparkle back to Hartcliffe. 😊🌧
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Give the
#BigTidy
crew a wave if you spot their sparkly new blue sweeper on your street 👋✨💙
Recently seen in Bishopston, St Pauls and Bedminster!
#BristolCleanStreets
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🚨Waste and recycling collections postponed.
All waste and recycling collections scheduled to take place on Friday 18 Feb 2022 are postponed due to severe red weather warnings for Bristol and advice to avoid all non-essential travel. Please bring your bins and boxes in. (1/2)
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These 'before' and 'after' pictures show the hard work of our
#BigTidy
crew in Lower Ashley Road the other day. If you spot some tagging that needs to be cleaned up, please report it here:
#BristolCleanStreets
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About 1/4 of every black bin in the city is being filled with food. Of that, almost 3/4 is AVOIDABLE food waste.
#foodwaste
could be causing
#BinDigestion
- please put it in your brown caddy & make your black bin feel wheelie great!
#SlimMyWaste
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📢 Please put your bins & boxes out for collection as usual next week.
An offer has been made which the unions have advised they will consider. Whilst the unions consult their members, industrial action proposed by Unite Union due to begin on Monday 10 July has been suspended.
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Absolutely delighted to announce
#SlimMyWaste
has won Best Recycling Project (Public Sector) at the
#waste2zero
Awards. Here’s Gwen receiving the award and thanking all our residents who took inspiration from the campaign and upped our food recycling rates👏🏼
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Looking forward to Bristol Pride Festival this weekend? We are!
Keep an eye out for the extra litter bins around the festival to help keep the city clean & green (and all the other colours of the rainbow!)
All litter, homophobia & transphobia should go in the bins provided. 🏳️🌈
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We've got some wheelie great news: you can now book a bike trailer from our Hartcliffe Way Reuse and Recycling Centre to transport your waste and recycling to the site, or bring your Reuse Shop finds home with you! 🚲
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Bristol's
#BigTidy
crew have been busy bringing the sparkle back to Easton Way today removing detritus and fallen leaves as well as cutting back the overgrown grass verges to widen the path.
#BristolCleanStreets
@BristolCouncil
@MarvinJRees
@BristolEaSteve
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Our thoughts are with the family and friends of our neighbours here in Avonmouth this evening.
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Have you discovered the
#ElectricAvenue
pop-up shop in The Galleries yet? We're inviting you to donate old, working electricals you no longer need and to walk away with one you do need, for free!
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Well done and THANK YOU to everyone who took part in the Great Bristol Spring Clean! 👏 Whether you did one litter pick or twenty, you've made a real difference to our city's streets, parks and neighbourhoods.
📸: Thanks
@WBD_UK
for this fab pic of your litter pick!
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Meet Ray, our newest Reuse Shop volunteer 👋 Ray will be stationed in the bike workshop, fixing them up so they can find new homes. You could call him a... Ray-cycler 😁
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Thank you again to the legends that are our crews, working so hard to
#GetItSorted
You can help by making sure that your recycling is sorted correctly - all your need-to-knows about what-goes-where can be found here👇♻️
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Bristol is a leading city for recycling again according to data from the Department of Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), ranking number one in England for recycling among core cities for the second year! Read more:
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Shout out to all our crews for being
#RecyclingHeroes
They are powering through in these difficult circumstances to continue to help
#Bristol
strive towards the recycling targets
#GlobalRecyclingDay
#GlobalRecyclingDay2020
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"It's always fun. It's very satisfying. It makes a difference to the neighbourhood, to everyone who lives here."
What she said!
Get involved with the Great Bristol Spring Clean this year!
#BristolCleanStreets
#GBSpringClean
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The results are in 🙌♻️
One year after 50 Bristol households were given 12 months to attempt to go zero waste.
How did they do and what can we learn from their experience, read on:
#WasteNothing
#Bristolwaste
#StopFoodWasteDay
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Anyone else been reusing waste items for Happy Growing!? 🌱
We'd love to see pictures!
#SlimMyWaste
#WasteNothing
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Our crews are working in high temperatures today.☀️ Collections are scheduled as normal, but please be patient if it takes a little longer to finish your street. Street cleansing crews are also working across the city as usual & continuing the clean up after the Harbour Festival.
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"We don't need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly, we need millions of people doing it imperfectly" We can make a huge difference with many small steps. Start with a
#ZeroWasteWeek
lunch. Share your 📷 & tag us for our prize draw
#WasteNothing
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We'd like to say thank you to our street cleansers who have been hard at work clearing Bristol's litter after Storm Eunice 🍃 We all have a part to play in keeping our city clean, so if you're out and about this weekend, please put your rubbish in the bin or take it home.
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It was an early start today for the
#BigTidy
crew, bringing the sparkle back to Newquay Road in
#Filwood
. Pavement sweeping, litter picking and a spot of weeding were all on the team's to-do list.
#BristolCleanStreets
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Thanks to the continued dedication of our crews and improved staffing levels, our garden waste and bulky waste collection services will resume from Monday 20 April.🌱
Please keep checking our website for any future changes to this service.
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The first of our brand new super-efficient recycling vehicles will be out on the roads tomorrow, helping us be out of your way as quickly, safely & greenly as possible. Here's a sneak peek! Can you guess what it will look like? Come back tomorrow to find out
#BristolCleanStreets
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It's
@Upfest
this weekend & we'll be providing the bins. Make sure you dispose of your waste in the correct place!
#BristolCleanStreets
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How's this for an opening ceremony? Instead of cutting a ribbon or smashing a bottle,
@MarvinJRees
and
@JoeSims10
opened the Hartcliffe Way Reuse and Recycling Centre by ceremoniously dropping the first recyclables into the plastics bay! (And yes, they brought them from home!)
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Great aerial view of the new development at Avonmouth! Read about how our redeveloped Household Reuse & Recycling Centre will be home to Bristol’s first-ever reuse shop at a recycling centre ♻️
#WasteNothing
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What a beautiful day to open our new Avonmouth recycling centre☀️thanks to
@MarvinJRees
for cutting the reuse ribbon to officially open the new site ♻️
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“I’ve lived here for 17 years and never seen it so clean!” – an impressed resident after the
#BigTidy
crews spent the day working on the footpath between Avonvale Road & Aiken Street
@BristolCouncil
@MarvinJRees
@BristolEaSteve
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4
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Wet weather work for the
#BigTidy
crew this week cutting back overgrown vegetation to improve pavement width in Somerset Square. Please report any street issues you see while out for daily exercise to
@BristolCouncil
at
#BristolCleanStreets
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Tomorrow is
#GlobalRecyclingDay
so it's an excellent time to remind yourself what goes in each bin. Luckily for us, Bristol's very own
@jaydeadams
explains how to
#GetItSorted
in our short animation.
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In October 2019, Mayor
@MarvinJRees
launched the
#BigTidy
as part of the
#BristolCleanStreets
campaign to bring areas of Bristol with low local environmental quality scores back up to a standard we can all be proud of. This week the crew have been in Straits Parade, Fishponds 👍
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With more people out & about, we're seeing increased littering at public spaces & beauty spots. We ask that you remember the people who have to clean it all up & please, please put your rubbish in the bin 🚮 And if the bin is full, please take the waste home with you. Thank you.
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A few ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos from the
#BigTidy
crew’s efforts removing graffiti in the Stockwood area. Find out more about Bristol's Big Tidy:
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A MASSIVE thank you to
@sascampaigns
and all the fantastic volunteers for ridding the
#AvonGorge
of litter this past Saturday in their largest beach clean yet! Wait… where are these plastics headed? 🤔
#beachclean
#plastic
#theoneshow
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We’ve only gone and won Campaign of the Year – Private/Commercial category at the
#NRAwards
! We’re over the moon!
#FeedMyFace
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Give our
#BigTidy
street cleansing crew a 👋 or 👍 if you spot them working in the rain 🌧️ Here are crew members working on Wells Rd, Totterdown this morning. Clearing verges, cutting back overgrown hedges & removing fly-tips are just some jobs on their to-do list in the area ✨
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Rain or shine, the
#BigTidy
crew are working hard to make shared public spaces cleaner & more accessible 🌦️ They're pictured here in St Andrews Road, Avonmouth. As
#Bristol
residents, we can all do our bit now to keep streets clean, green, & safer for all 🚮
#BristolCleanStreets
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Thanks to all the Hartcliffe residents sharing fantastic feedback of the
#BigTidy
project: "The change is amazing, it's a better space now the excess rubbish is gone and as its getting warmer I'm looking forward to being able to plant more flowers to make it even prettier!" 🌼
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Wow! 115 people attended the second-ever Reuse Shop Warehouse Sale last week, raising over £1.5k in just three hours to support the running of the not-for-profit shop and St Peters Hospice! 😲 Thank you to everyone involved, especially the team of volunteers. 👏 👏
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It's coming up for that time again - time for the
#GBSpringClean
! 🙌💚🚮
We're gearing up for the Great
#Bristol
Spring Clean, our annual Spring litter picking event in support of
#BristolCleanStreets
&
@keepbritaintidy
’s Great British Spring Clean:
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Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate
#BristolCleanStreets
yesterday! It was brilliant to see so many of Bristol's businesses and organisations litter picking in the sunshine.
#BigTidy
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Ed and Annabel spent the morning litter picking in a South Bristol park after a friend asked everyone to celebrate their lockdown birthday by doing individual litter picks - what a fantastic idea! 🎉 Thanks for helping to bring the sparkle back ✨
#BristolCleanStreets
#BigTidy
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We are pleased to announce that Unite the Union's members have voted to accept the new pay settlement for frontline staff. As a result, the planned strike action, which was due to start on Thursday, has been called off. (1/3)
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#BigTidy
'before' and 'after' pictures from Stillhouse Lane and Lower Sidney Street in Bedminster this week. Last month the crew cleared 48 fly-tips and 211 tags
#BristolCleanStreets
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Meet our brand new fuel-efficient vehicles in service today! We’d like to thank residents for their patience & remind you that by sorting your recycling properly & with the new vehicles, our crews will be able to be out of the way as soon as possible 🚚
#BristolCleanStreets
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We 💚our milk float! Lovely video
@beardedjourno
! (cc
@BrisCentreBID
)
This electric milk float has been converted into a vehicle helping to clean Bristol’s city centre streets:
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