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A woman has described herself as a \u2018proud mummy\u2019 after her two young sons picked up the litter they found on their dog walk in Salford.<\/p>\n
Nichola O\u2019Neill shared a post to Instagram detailing her family dog walk, during which her two sons, aged three and five, asked if they could spend time litter picking on the way back.<\/p>\n
\nNichola and her two sons picking up litter around Monton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
In the post, the mother-of-two also expressed her frustration at the \u2018scruffs\u2019 who dropped it to begin with.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019m sad it was dumped in the first place,\u2019 she wrote.<\/p>\n
Litter picking has become a regular occurrence for the boys around their home in Monton, Eccles.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor my kids, it\u2019s just a normal thing, to pick it up, and sometimes I\u2019m a bit like, \u2018no don\u2019t touch that!\u2019 because they just naturally want to pick it up and throw it away,\u201d Nichola said.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cIf they see anyone dropping litter, they\u2019re quite vocal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey say, \u2018Oi! Pick your litter up!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The primary school teacher expressed that she doesn\u2019t think the knowledge of her two young sons cleaning up after people is enough to deter them from dropping litter in the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019d just think, \u2018oh well, someone else is going to pick it up.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it can be dangerous, you know if they\u2019re picking up something that could have dog poo on it, or it could have needles or anything, glass, wire, it could be anything. It is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nichola believes that to combat the litter problem she sees in her local area, litter picking to be taught on the national curriculum from a young age.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they do it at school, and they see their peers doing it, and their teachers are doing it, then maybe they\u2019re more likely to do it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe litter the boys collect is discarded in Nichola’s own bins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Nichola acknowledged the work of the Monton Village Community Association, whose volunteers spend time litter-picking around the area, but insists that the council need to do more.<\/p>\n
She suggested the council place bins in \u2018strategic\u2019 locations, such as where people walk, as well as emptying them more than once a week and fining those who drop litter.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThere needs to be a punishment for dropping litter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, Nichola wants business owners to take responsibility for the litter they produce by introducing biodegradable food packaging and providing a place to dispose of waste.<\/p>\n
\nDiscarded food packaging from a takeaway in Monton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cJust as I\u2019ve got older, we\u2019ve realised, you know, the whole, what\u2019s going on at the moment with COP26, it\u2019s getting people to understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were using paper bags to get our fruit and veg, having a milk man with glass bottles, and going to the butchers and getting it wrapped in paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t understand the move away from that and then the move back to it. Why didn\u2019t we just carry on like that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nichola hopes that her sons will continue to care for their environment as they grow up, and plans to continue going litter picking with them on their dog walks.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI\u2019d hope that they encourage their friends, I want them to be role models.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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