September marks national Clean-up and Recycle Month and in an effort to keep the environment clean, members from Litter Bugs and learners from Ashton International College rolled up their sleeves to clean the Atlasville Spruit on September 18.
Carrying rakes and refuse bags, the dedicated environment lovers spent their afternoon picking up litter.
According to Samantha Choles, who is the co-founder of Litter Bugs, recently when she was jogging around the area she noticed a lot of rubbish in the water and on the grass.
“By cleaning the area we are trying to encourage people to clean their areas and make a difference wherever they are,” Choles said.
Choles expressed a sincere gratitude to a local company called Skipworks that donated a skip on the day and fetched it later on.
The Ashton International College learner shared that they have taken part in other cleaning campaigns and have recently cleaned Homestead Dam.
One of the learners, Thalita Kotzé, shared that they have recycled some of the glass found at the Atlasville Spruit.
Kotzé urged people to keep the environment clean because the environment suffers due to humans.
Litter Bugs consists of members from Boksburg and Benoni and the initiative was started by Choles and Anne McLeman in 2015.
The aim of the initiative is to clean the parks and pavements in Boksburg and Benoni, while also encouraging people not to litter and to keep the areas around their homes and businesses free of rubbish.
The group meets on the third Friday in the afternoon of every month to pick up litter.
Litter Bugs members meet between 2.30pm and 4pm.
