Hartlepool gets ready for massive town-wide litter crackdown - here's how you can take part

The Hartlepool Big Town Tidy Up group, which has 1,400 members on Facebook, is organising an event for Sunday, November 1.

Members are being encouraged to get out across all wards in the town and do their bit to clean up litter.

It is just the latest amazing effort from a group which has made a huge difference in recent months.

We first reported on ‘BTTU’ in June when we told how it had collected 4,000 bags of rubbish and members had taken everything from abandoned bags of dog dirt to gas canisters off the streets of Hartlepool.

Since then, membership has soared and now stands at more than 1,400 people.

That includes the army of young members who are determined to make a difference to the environment.

Another of the ‘BBTU’s projects is the ward by ward clean-up and they have already tackled Jesmond and Throston; the Marina; Burn Valley; De Brus and Headland areas.

More than 170 bags of litter collected so far, and around 30 people have been turning out to join in the mass clean-up each time.

Now comes the news of the mass tidy-up planned for Sunday, November 1. Officials are hoping the effort will add to the group’s impressive efforts of having collected almost 10,000 bags of rubbish.

To find out more about the Hartlepool Big Town Tidy Up movement, visit its Facebook page.

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