Tomorrow, Thursday 11th April 2024, between 10am and 3pm, CRT volunteers’ work boats will be collecting rubbish between Bath and Bradford on Avon. If you have any bulky items such as mattresses, barrels of oil, waste from boat fit-outs etc, just give them a shout as they pass. They will also be doing some litter picking on the towpath as they go, and boaters are welcome to do their own litter picking and dispose of it as the work boat passes.
This service is carried out by the CRT Bath and Bradford on Avon volunteers using their work boats to assist boaters to get rid of large items that can’t be put into household waste bins. They started this service because they recognised that many boaters do not have transport to take these items to recycling centres and in some cases have been denied access due to not having a local address. They aim to do a run every 3 or 4 months. The Bath team will go from Bath Top lock to Dundas and the Bradford on Avon team will go from Bradford to Dundas. If you aren’t going to be be on your boat tomorrow morning, you can leave the items beside your boat, preferably with a sign to say you want the stuff to be removed.
In view of the removal of the boater bins at Bathampton, this service is even more important.
See https://www.change.org/p/keep-the-crt-boater-bins-in-bathampton
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