By Andy Dalton
The festive season left a trail of discarded rubbish in its trail in Armley.
The grassed area between Mistress Lane and Crab Lane is a popular thoroughfare to reach Armley Road. It is next to the premises of Leeds City Mission.
Staff and volunteers arrived back after the holiday season to find litter strewn around the grass. Bottles, broken glass, paper wrappings, sweet papers, polystyrene packing, cigarette packages, bags, plastic containers and a host of other throw-away items had been dumped by pedestrians making their walk through the patch of land.
20 year-old Reka Hermann, who helps at the City Mission Compassion Centre, rolled up her sleeves. Armed with a litter picker and plastic sacks she gave the area an early spring clean. Despite freezing temperatures she got to work scouring the grassed area and scooping up the rubbish collecting four sacks full of rubbish in total.
She sorted the litter with glass and metal going to appropriate recycling bins.
City Mission Coordinator Andy Dalton commended Reka for her sterling efforts at her environmental clean up. He said that Reka was a regular helper at the City Mission Compassion Centre. The City Mission and its volunteers were seeking to make a difference for the better for Armley residents.
Mr Dalton added: “Unfortunately the Christmas season always generates a lot of rubbish which is just thrown away without thinking about its environmental impact.
“A big thank you to Reka for this tidy up which is much appreciated by ourselves at the City Mission and local residents.”
The City Mission Compassion Centre is located at the junction of Town Street and Mistress Lane (next door to Westerly Rise flats) in Armley.
Leeds City Mission is a multi-church Christian agency and has worked with marginalised people over three centuries seeking to meet the physical, social and spiritual needs of Leeds residents. It is one of the city’s oldest charities, being in continuous existence since 1837.
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