'Wet Wipe Island' at Hammersmith

[LittleSister]

Saddening, but not entirely negative, story about piled up accumulations of waste at Hammersmith that the PLA are now clearing. (Presumably there'll be related reports in other media.)

Welcome to ‘Wet Wipe Island’: my day at London’s grimmest new landmark

 

[Boathook]

It was on the BBC TV London news the other night. They said 150 tons or was it tonnes. Either way, a lot.

 

[LittleSister]

It was on the BBC TV London news the other night. They said 150 tons or was it tonnes. Either way, a lot.

'Grace Rawnsley, the director of sustainability for the Port of London Authority (PLA), which has taken on the gruesome task of dredging up the wet wipes, estimates that more than 180 tonnes – roughly equivalent to 15 of the capital’s doubledecker buses – will be pulled from the river in the next month.'

I assume that 180 tonnes is the total amount of general 'grot', not just the wet wipes. In one of the accompanying photos there appears to be a lot of vegetation (as one would expect), along with the domestic waste.

 

[oldgit]

The polluter pays would be nice ?
They could start with the single use bottles which decorate every single one of our motorway exit roads followed by a tax on every McDonalds drive through in the known universe.