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To: Wandsworth Council
Stop the trashing of Wandsworth Common!
Enforce litter laws and issue £100 fixed penalty notices to the crowds leaving litter on Wandsworth Common. Also, force businesses on Bellevue Road selling take-away food and drink to charge sizeable deposits on pizza boxes and plastic beakers to encourage their return.
Why is this important?
Wandsworth Common is a huge, beautiful space enjoyed by so many, and has been especially important to us all during lockdown. But it is now being regularly trashed with industrial amounts of litter left by huge crowds of people who leave their plastic bottles, beer cans, pizza boxes and coffee cups for someone else to clean up at our cost.
On my morning walks it is truly heart-breaking to see so much rubbish dumped on this beautiful space. And just as saddening that the council or the police do nothing to enforce responsible behaviour. A council worker told me he collects one-and-a-half truckloads of rubbish every morning (see picture) just from the part of the common opposite Bellevue Road!
If authorities were on site to enforce the £100 fixed penalty notices for littering, the council's coffers would be full in no time!
Further, if people had to pay a deposit of 50p or a £1 for their pizza box or plastic beer cup when buying them from the businesses on Bellevue Road, that would strongly encourage them to return them rather than dump them on the common.
