{"id":171104,"date":"2025-06-09T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171104\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:05:11","slug":"mcdonalds-and-starbucks-should-contribute-to-litter-cleaning-in-salford-quays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171104\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald’s and Starbucks ‘should contribute’ to litter cleaning in Salford Quays"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are calls for action against litter.\"McDonald'sMcDonald’s and Starbucks are based off Trafford Road.<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s and Starbucks should pay towards tackling litter problems in Salford<\/a> Quays, a councillor has said.<\/p>\n

Coun Jonathan Moore, a Lib Dem, said wrappers and packaging from the chains are ending up on the streets and blowing in the waterways.<\/p>\n

The companies have a site each based off Trafford<\/a> Road next to Salford Quays<\/a> tram stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe litter problem generally increased significantly after McDonald’s opened, and of course you can identify McDonald’s because it’s all branded,\u201d Coun Moore said.<\/p>\n

“It isn’t actually just McDonald’s either, there is also an increase in litter from the Starbucks which is adjacent to McDonald’s.<\/p>\n

“Some of that litter then just blows around in the wind and it ends up in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salford Watersports Centre, operated by Salford Community Leisure, has been using its boat to help clear rubbish away, Coun Moore added.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post, he wrote that the centre had been given a contract with the council for six hours a week of litter clearing, up from an existing two hour arrangement.<\/p>\n

\"McDonald'sMcDonald’s litter in Salford Quays.<\/p>\n

Campaigners and volunteers in the Quays also head out about once a month to pick litter left on the streets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Salford Quays councillor said companies who are part of the issue should contribute to fixing it, by offering a sum to the council to be used for tackling litter, or by contributing to the Watersports Centre.<\/p>\n

He said this money could help to employ someone to be out and about litter picking in the neighbourhood every day.<\/p>\n

“There ought to be a proper contribution going straight to the Watersports Centre for all the work that they’re doing in the water, because that’s a bit that nobody else can do, and they are having to do it.<\/p>\n

“But the more broader issue of the stuff that’s still on the land that anybody could pick up, absolutely, they should be contributing to that, because unless they send a team of people out every day, covering quite a large area, which clearly they are not, then somebody else has to do it.”<\/p>\n

However, he acknowledged that part of the issue is down to people throwing their rubbish on the floor rather than using bins.<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s, Starbucks, and Salford council were approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are calls for action against litter.McDonald’s and Starbucks are based off Trafford Road. McDonald\u2019s and Starbucks should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,1290,27605,30580,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-salford","13":"tag-salford-council","14":"tag-salford-quays","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655208713007654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}