Merton Council calls on young style junkies
Merton Council is calling on young people from around the borough to transform trash into a creative costume through the new Style Junkies competition.
Category Archives: Environment
Merton Council tells smokers to watch their butt
Merton Council hit the streets of Wimbledon this week to educate smokers about the impact cigarette litter has on the environment.
Merton celebrates borough’s best blooms
Green fingered community groups, schools, residents and businesses celebrated at the Merton in Bloom awards ceremony in Morden’s Civic Centre.
Littering in Merton is a pile of rubbish says council
Merton Council set up a box of rubbish in Morden town centre today to demonstrate the amount of litter that’s collected from the local area on a daily basis.
Free food waste recycling scheme for Merton schools
Schools in Merton have kicked off the new term with a free food waste collection and education scheme.
Merton’s green spaces among the best in London
Merton’s local residents, businesses, community groups and gardening enthusiasts are celebrating success after the borough was awarded Silver in the London in Bloom 2014 competition.
Merton and Sutton residents give overwhelming support for Tramlink extension
People in Merton and Sutton have strongly backed proposals to extend the tramlink from Wimbledon to Sutton town centre. Transport for London (TfL) is looking into plans to extend the […]
Keeping Merton’s parks clean
Merton Council is clamping down on litter in parks as it continues its partnership with specialist environmental crime enforcers from Kingdom Environmental Protection Services.
Merton Council works with residents to tackle litter
Merton Council is encouraging residents to take up their brooms and don their rubber gloves as part of its Street Champions scheme on Saturday 13 September at 10am -12pm.
Council says: You wouldn’t do this at home, don’t do it in our borough
Merton Council set up a littered and fly-tipped living room on Mitcham Fair Green this morning to raise awareness of the effects environmental crime has on the borough and to push the message that just as people would not dump rubbish in their living room, they should not dump rubbish on the streets.