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Kids Pick Up New Way to Curb Litter

by Barbara Mathieson | December 16, 2008 at 07:06 am

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Kids pick up new way to curb litter
Monday, December 15, 2008, 06:30

TEENAGERS in the East Riding are taking part in voluntary clean-ups instead of paying £75 fines for dropping litter in the street.

The option to avoid on-the-spot fines was introduced earlier this year by East Riding Council enforcement officials.

They say the initiative has already been a success with less litter being discarded outside schools at lunchtimes.

A similar scheme is also being considered in Hull although teenage litter louts in the city currently risk a straight fine if they are caught red-handed.

Since January, 35 under-16s in the East Riding have opted to take part in half-day sessions supervised by the area's youth offending team.

What a great idea! Make the litterers pick up their trash (and everyone else's). I'm tired of picking up someone's baby's dirty diapers off the side of the road.

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Amy Judd

at 08:26 on December 16th, 2008

Dirty diapers? How disgusting! Good for you for picking them up though..

jonathan sia

at 17:20 on December 16th, 2008

this was taken in the valley of loo benguet, in the philippines, we come and visit them here every year, and share God's love with them, play and have fun with them for a week, do all sort of activities together....

it was after a sport activity that this photo was taken, it shows that kids also enjoy picking up all the trash, and this local kid still have time to take a pose, while i was capturing this moment. it was fun to see they are responsible even at an early age =D

jonathan sia has contributed a photo to this story.

Uwe Paschen

at 18:18 on December 16th, 2008

Good post Barbara. We need more such involvement.

Sonium (not verified)

at 15:17 on August 18th, 2009

Uhm... yeah, not all of those photos are exactly accurate. The first few (not the one jonathan sia posted, but the few after that) have nothing to do with this story. Those pictures (the ones with the students in the Loma Linda Academy uniforms) had nothing to do with this new initiative. They were just photos of us (Loma Linda Academy students) picking up trash because we're required by our school to perform "volunteer" community service (that's what they call it, anyways). I'm actually the right most student in image 4683. Not sure who uploaded those photos, but they're taken out of context. This is all just fyi. I'm not commenting on the story itself.