St Mellons Clean Up

Thank you to our 10 volunteers this evening for helping to clean up our community here in St Mellons. We filled 28 bags with litter in 75 minutes from the local streets and pathways, and removed some dumped rubbish items along the way too. Thanks all for joining us and giving your time to tidy up where we live and help our environment.

We found a rug, cardboard, astro turf pieces, various signs, bags of dumped household waste, a broken plastic garden chair, lots of the usual food and drinks litter, canisters and vapes, pots and paint tins, the top part of a garden shed and 2 broken coupe cars. A discarded but new looking bike wheel will be given to the fantastic team at the Bike Hut St Mellons to re purpose for those in need. The canisters that were dropped off by fellow volunteers along with ones collected tonight, will be given to Cardiff Rivers Group to recycle and raise funds for their fab work.

Our next events will be on Saturday 24th August and then the 28th of September for the Big Cardiff Clean Up. Please add these dates to your diaries and calendars. Thanks again to our superstars tonight for your efforts to clean our streets, making them tidier and safer for all, diolch 🚮

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If you have any concerns about anti-social behaviour, including fly-tipping and dog fouling, the Councils team will be at St Mellons Hub this Thursday, 13th June, between 10am - 3pm.

Our Anti-Social Behaviour team is holding a drop-in session at St Mellons Hub on Thursday, 10am to 3pm.

Pop along to meet the team to discuss any concerns you have around nuisance neighbours, vandalism and flytipping, dog fouling and more.

The sessions will take place at the hub every other Thursday.

If you can’t make it to the session but want to speak to the team, call 029 2053 7199.

It's Volunteers Week! We at St. Mellons Clean Up would like to say a big 'Thank You' to all the wonderful community volunteers, whether it's by caring, listening, helping and of course litter picking. You're all amazing.

The rain doesn't keep SMCU away! 8 awesome local volunteers spent just over an hour tidying up the community today despite the continuous showers. Thank you all for your efforts and dedication. We filled 22 bags with litter and removed other various items from around Trowbridge Community Centre. Ready for Your Local Pantry Trowbridge Family Fun Day on Friday, details for which can be found here: https://facebook.com/events/s/family-fun-day/369173872190795/

The bags were mostly filled with food wrappers and packaging, plastic bottles and cans. We also found a few canisters, vapes, cushions, old TV, tyres and pieces of what were left of a garden chair. We have also reported a needle to the Council for them to remove safely. If you see something like this, please report it to the Council as soon as possible via their website or Cardiff Gov app.

It's our AGM on Tuesday 4th of June, at the Beacon Centre at 6pm. It's an open invitation but please message us if you plan to attend. If you've seen an area that could do with a clean up by our awesome volunteers, please let us know 👍

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Sunshine, blue skies, snacks and amazing volunteers, what more could we ask for?! 17 amazing people spent a warm morning filling 52 bags with litter and removed lots of rubbish and dumped items too in Trowbridge and St Mellons. Thank you all for your efforts today, we hope you have been putting your feet up and enjoying the sun after this mornings workout. Thanks to Paula Morgan Communtiy Support at Tesco St Mellons for the refreshments. It's great to have support from local businesses.

We filled 52 bags with all sorts of litter like food and drink packaging/wrappers. We also removed traffic cones, lots of various toys and hard plastics, mostly broken, which can be taken to the tip/recycling centre, little paddling pool, carpets, underlay, fridge, mattress, 5 chairs plus a childs plastic chair, various wood, guttering, motorbike helmet, alloys, a tyre, dollhouse, polystyrene, a gaming chair, food and glass bin, part of a Henry Hoover, sofas and cushions, foam, tv stand, nos canisters, a cosy club sign and a punching bag. All now removed from the local streets, pathways, vegetation and green space. We also found lots of "disposable" vapes unfortunately, most were strangely found filled into 2 socks. These will be taken to Lamby way tip as they are deemed a fire hazard and so are unsafe to put into the rubbish bags. The canisters, some scrap metal and a builders sack will be going to Cardiff Rivers Group and part of a balance bike to the volunteers at the Bike Hut St Mellons.

Thank you all once again for giving up your time, especially in this glorious sunshine, to help clean up our community. We couldn't do it without you all. Diolch superstars 👏💚🚮 Great to have another new face today too 👍 We will be looking to help clean up around Trowbridge Community Centre before Trowbridge Pantry have their Family Fun Day on Friday 31st of May. We'll post details when it is all planned. Please do let us know if you've seen an area that could do with a clean up, we'll add it to our list.

A big thank you to all the litter pickers who are looking after our community here in Trowbridge & St Mellons. We spotted a bag at Cemaes Park during the week and one of our committee members added another full bag of rubbish. Diolch pawb 👏 Our next event is a week away today, Saturday 4th May, everyone is welcome to join us 🚮

Full details here: https://facebook.com/events/s/litter-pick-sat-4th-may-trowbr/441880165058376/

DO NOT LITTER. A poster spotted in a local park yesterday. If a child understands the importance why not to litter, then we're certain all adults can too. Everyone deserves a safe place to play. Let's keep educating for safe and litter free parks for all 🚮💚

Our Spring Clean Cymru event had 11 incredible volunteers who worked together to remove 84 bags of rubbish! A massive haul of rubbish that is no longer polluting our environment. Thank you all for your outstanding efforts yesterday morning, it was quite grim but what a difference we have made 👏👏 Absolute Superstars 🌟 🌟

Through sunshine and showers, we picked the usual litter of food wrappers/packaging, cans and bottles, and cleared dumped rubbish from Cemeas Park, nearby streets and along the path in Trowbridge Meadow. Great to have 2 new faces aswell and, as always, some local heroes who have been volunteering with us since we started in 2019, diolch pawb. Some kind Council staff had cut back the bramble to make is safer for us and easier to access the rubbish along the path and gate, thank you. We were also joined by the Councils Enforcement Team who investigated many of the dumped bags of household waste, which is sadly becoming a regular occurrence here. They will continue to monitor the situation in this particular area.

We removed a rug, lots of carpets, broken furniture/pieces of wood, door mat, plant pots, tarpaulin, various toys, a blue heart shaped balloon, food waste bin, clothes, shoes, inflatable bouncy castle, car mats, canisters and vapes, a Walkers crisp packet dated 2008, and an office chair. Sadly and very frustrating, there were lots of dumped bags full of general and recyclable household waste which included wine bottles, egg shells, plastic bottles, tins, food packaging and lots of nappies. All of which should be put out kerbside in their dedicated bins, sacks and bags, to be collected by the council, not dumped into our local environment, childrens park and play area, and green space. Thank you to the cleansing team for collecting both piles of rubbish. And thanks to the Councils Enforcement Team for joining us to investigate this issue. Please report any fly tipping directly to the council via their Cardiff Gov website or App.

Thanks again to all of these fab volunteers, your commitment and dedication to clean up our community is incredible. Diolch 💚

Fortnightly garden waste collections are to restart from Tuesday 2 April.

We can only collect waste that fits in your usual container, please do not leave excess waste next to your container as it will not be collected.

If you have been using your garden waste bin to store non garden waste items over the winter period, please remove these before presenting for collection. Garden waste is used for compost and non-compostable items will impact on the quality of material produced.

We can accept:
Leaves
Grass Cuttings
Plant/flower cuttings
Small twigs/branches
If you have animals that do not eat meat (for example, guinea pigs and rabbits), you can put their bedding, such as hay, straw, and wood shavings, in your garden waste.

But not:
Compost/soil
Rubble/decorative stones
Garden items e.g. watering cans, gnomes, plant pots
Wood- treated or untreated
Green recycling bags
General waste

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Here's some of the rubbish that we'll be aiming to remove at our Spring Clean Cymru event this Saturday, 23rd March, where the Councils Enforcement Team will join us to investigate. Some council staff have kindly cut back bramble along the path to make it safer for us and easier to remove the rubbish. It's a bit muddy in this area so please wear boots or wellies but if this isn't suitable for you, there is plenty of litter to be picked up along the nearby streets too. We are meeting in Cemaes Park at 9.50am for those that would like to join us and help clean up our park and local area 🚮
Full event details here: https://facebook.com/events/s/spring-clean-cymru-litter-pick/2890972314376465/

The St Mellons and Trowbridge Conservation Volunteers will be at Hendre Lake tomorrow morning, Saturday 16th March, to plant lots of native wildflowers along with Cardiff Community Park Rangers. If you are interetsed in attending, please comment or message us and we'll let them know. Friends Of St Mellons & Trowbridge

Details - The next volunteer workday will be this Saturday morning, 16th of March, at Hendre Lake where we will be planting wildflowers 🌸

Message from Rhodri; The plan is to plant a range of native wildflowers into our existing wildflower meadow. My aim is to try and improve the species diversity by introducing a few wildflower species that are lacking in the area. In particular Devil’s Bit Scabious is missing in this part of Hendre Lake, so we have around 200 plants to correct this!

We will meet on the western side of the lake at 10am, where it is a short walk to the meadows. What 3 Words map in photo https://w3w.co/rank.melt.across. The main tools we will use will be wheelbarrows, spades and trowels. Please bring your own gardening gloves if you have them. If you do not then please let me know as I have a limited number available.

If you could please reply to this post or private message to confirm your attendance, that would be greatly appreciated.

Look forward to seeing you all on the 16th (fingers crossed for some dry weather!)

Our friends Cardiff Rivers Group will be in St Mellons on Wednesday 20th March doing some path maintenance in a meadow area off of Harrison Drive.

Next Wednesday, 20th March, we'll be at Harrison Drive, St Mellons, doing some path maintenance in the meadow that's at the end of the road.

We'll using spades to remove grass that's encroaching onto the paths and wheelbarrowing it off into piles in the meadow.

The piles of grass should make good mini "bee banks" for some of the many species of bee that nest in the ground.

Meet at 09:45 near the end of Harrison Drive, St Mellons CF3 0PW.
What3Words: panels.globe.occurs Please park considerately on the roadside.

Please wear wellies, boots or stout shoes, and suitable clothing. Given the recent and forecast weather, it may well be muddy!

Come along and Make A DIFFerence!

A fellow volunteer who gives his time and works hard to help people within our community, is asking for help. The Bike Hut St Mellons - Can anyone please help. We need donations to secure a place to store the bikes for the bike hut or we will lose them tomorrow morning. The only place I can find is still going to cost us £300 and that’s money we just don’t have, we need help The Bike Hut St Mellons

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Our friends Cardiff Rivers Group will be at Hendre Lake this Wednesday, 6th March, for a litter pick 🚮

This Wednesday, 6th March, we'll be back at Hendre Lake Park. Meet at 09:45 in the car park.

We'll be taking advantage of the recent cutting back to continue removing as much rubbish as we can from the undergrowth along the path edges and around the fishing pegs.

Please wear wellies, boots or stout shoes, and suitable clothing.

All equipment — gloves, litter-pickers, bags, hoops, etc — is provided. But if you have your own, please bring it along!

Please wear wellies, boots or stout shoes, and suitable clothing.

Come along and Make A DIFFerence!

We teamed up with Cardiff Rivers Group again today to tackle the litter, rubbish and larger dumped items along Faendre Reen in St Mellons. 27 fab volunteers worked together to remove the usual litter of plastic bottles and food packaging from the waterway, grass embankments and busy paths after Natural Resources Wales had cut back the vegetation along most of the reen and dredged part of it too. We also removed some larger items like mattresses, furniture and bags of fly tipped rubbish that the Councils Enforcement Team inspected after we finished. Thanks all for your efforts today, we filled 80 bags with rubbish plus removed lots of other items from the environment. A big thank you👏 to William from the council who worked tirelessly ferrying the rubbish we collected throughout the morning to the collection point, this was a huge help for us and enabled us to spend more time cleaning up the area. And thank you to Ben with 2 truck fulls to remove it all 👍

We found 75 nos canisters today along with lots of vapes too. Some of the other items included 2 mops, carpets, tarpaulin, an office chair, batteries, electrical items like an air fryer, blinds, nappies and sanitary items, mattresses, lots of plastic bags and wrappers, headboard, brushes, paint tins, plates, trolley, bread/plastic crates, a hula hoop, blankets, clothes, traffic cones, TV, sofa, foot basket pool and golf balls, weights, a saucepan, various wood and broken furniture, scooters and other scrap metal, cushions and a recliner chair.

Thanks again for all your hard work. We've made a great improvement to the area and to the health of the inhabitants of the Reen. If you've seen an area that could do with a clean up, please let us know. 🚮

Here's some of the rubbish that we'll be aiming to remove from within and along Faendre Reen with Cardiff Rivers Group this Sunday, 11th of Feb. We need lots of volunteers for this clean up, so please bring a friend and neighbour, if you can 👍 It's a messy one so please wear suitable clothing and sturdy footwear. We'll be meeting in What store car park at 9.45am, see you then 🚮

On Sunday 11 February, we'll be tackling Faendre Reen in St Mellons, in a joint event with St Mellons Clean Up.

Always a notorious location for littering, the vegetation along the reen has recently been cut back, revealing even more rubbish.

Meet at 09:45 in the car park, off Willowbrook Road, by the What! store.

All equipment — gloves, litter-pickers, bags, hoops, etc — is provided. But if you have your own, please bring it along!

Please wear wellies, boots or stout shoes, and suitable clothing.

If you have your own waders, please bring them with you. If you don't, we have some available to borrow.

Come along and Make A DIFFerence!

St Mellons Clean Up 2023. Here's our recap:

We held 12 events this year which resulted in 486 volunteer hours to improve our community here in Trowbridge and St Mellons. We removed a total of 903 bags of litter along with a few more tonnes of various discarded items. That is a huge amount of rubbish that is now no longer harming our local environment and wildlife thanks to the efforts of you, our volunteers. Thank you. We teamed up with Hope St Mellons and the mighty Cardiff Rivers Group again this year. Thanks to CRG for covering our insurance this year. We'll have more joint events in 2024. We were also joined by PCSO's with their Police Cadets and we had 14 new people join us over the year too, diolch. We received a nomination for Cardiff Volunteer Group Of The Year. A big thank you to Frolics Cafe St Mellons for providing hot drinks to our volunteers in Feb and to Paula Morgan Community Support at Tesco St Mellons for providing refreshments at multiple events. We really appreciate the kind gesture and support. Thank you to Together for Trowbridge and St Mellons for providing funding for our group. Thank you to all of our volunteers for your continued efforts in helping to look after our streets, parks and green spaces and to all who volunteer in their own time, diolch. Your dedication keeps us going. We removed a staggering amount of rubbish that was a blight on our communtiy and we will continue to do so with your support. We are grateful for your time in helping to clean up where we live and we look forward to seeing you all in 2024.

Thank you, again, to every volunteer in 2023, we'll see you all soon.

Best Wishes
From all the SMCU team

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Unfortunately, due to the strike we will be unable to collect Christmas trees this year.

To help you dispose of your tree, there'll be a Christmas tree drop-off point at Heath Park on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th January 2024, between 10am and 4pm.

Alternatively you can bring your Christmas tree to either Lamby Way or Bessemer Close Recycling Centres - without making a booking through the online system.

If you have space, your Christmas tree could also be chopped up and placed in your green bin until the garden waste collections re-start in the spring.

We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Over the Christmas period, your recycling & waste collection could be later than usual.

If your collection was due on:
Tuesday, December 26 – it will now happen on Wednesday, December 27.
Wednesday, December 27 – changes to Thursday December 28.
Thursday December 28 – changes to Friday December 29.
Friday, December 29 - changes to Saturday December 30.

Recycling and waste should be placed out by 6am on collection day, and no earlier than 4.30pm the day before.

Wrapping paper will not be collected from recycling bags or sacks and will need to be put into black bins or bags for collection.

Wrapping paper often has a very high ink content, has very few fibres left in the paper that is useful for recycling and is often rejected by the companies that sell the product to the paper mills.

Wrapping paper labelled as recyclable will not be accepted either as there isn’t a way for our crews to distinguish between this product and non-recyclable wrapping paper when it is presented for collection.

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We've had an article written about us in The Cardiffian by one of our new volunteers. Thank you, Murthaza and thank you to all our volunteers for your continued efforts at our events this year 💚 🚮

The volunteers who give up their time to keep St Mellons clean and tidy - The Cardiffian The Trowbridge and St Mellons Litter picking group 'welcomes everyone who wants to take part'

Wow. Fantastic from Cardiff Rivers Group 👏👏👏 Thank you to all of our volunteers for contributing to this, by collecting and dropping off canisters and other scrap metal at events that we then give to CRG. Cleaning our streets and helping those in need, diolch 💚

The Cardiff Community Park Rangers Wild About Cardiff and Cardiff Rivers Group were back at Hendre Lake island yesterday, to continue their work cutting back the bramble to return this area to an open habitat that is ideal for snipes and morhens. If you'd like to get involved and volunteer with these environmental conservation events, please follow Friends Of St Mellons & Trowbridge to keep up to date. They'll be volunteering and working with the park rangers across our local green spaces. Thank you all for your efforts in improving these habitats for our resident and visiting wildlife 👏💚

Thank you to all at Hope St Mellons for hosting and celebrating all the wonderful local volunteers 💚

Cardiff Rivers Group will be back to continue habitat work on Hendre Lake island with the Park Rangers this Friday morning, 8th December.

This Friday, 8th December, we'll be back at Hendre Lake Park. We'll be carrying on with the habitat management work on the island that we started on Saturday, clearing bramble and self-seeded trees.

Meet at 09:45 on the lakeside nearest the car park — just look for the CRG truck

Please wear wellies, boots or stout shoes, and suitable clothing.

All equipment will be provided.