Sir - It is likely your paper will be covering the successes of running the OxClean event last weekend.
We in South Hinksey managed to collect 42 bags of rubbish using our own equipment, collection vehicles and roadwork protection signs and bollards. Why you might say was no equipment supplied by OxClean? We registered our proposal and were sent order forms which we returned. We then received a phone call from the Civic Society advising that as we were outside the city boundary they couldn't help us!
Considering the biggest landowner in our parish is the Oxford City Council and we were cleaning up their land free of charge it was a bitter pill to swallow. The Vale of the White Horse managed to supply us with 30 bags but no other safety equipment. Whilst we cleaned all the verges in the parish there are still huge quantities of large-size litter all along the A34 and down most of the slopes from the Hinksey interchange roundabout and its approach roads. If the relevant councils and agencies don't clean up their act soon we will be engulfed in windblown litter once again bringing us back to square one.
Clive Briffett, Chairman of the Parish of South Hinksey
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