CLEANING LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 792, 12 October 1929, Page 5

CLEANING LONDON

COSTS £3,000 A DAY RUBBISH IN STREETS Those people who have been choked or begrimed by swirls of dust and debris in London streets will be amazed to know that the thoroughfares are subjected to a £3,000 daily cleanup. A sum of £1,100,000 a year is the cost of cleaning the Loudon streets, according to the Ministry of Health report just published, which contains a scathing description of London's refuse disposal methods which has stirred the public to a grave danger to health in its midst. Yet people who have to move in these streets that are cleansed at such a big daily cost find scenes of indescribable filth in some and very few that approximated to their ideal of a clean street. A newspaper reporter who toured I through thoroughfares recently in which bad fruit, piles of straw, crazy patterns of greasy paper, dense sow- | ings of omnibus tickets and other \ refuse were to be found in abundance. found that the best reasons for the litter are those given in the official report. These reasons include: “Leicester puts ticket boxes on its j tramway cars and omnibuses and re--1 covers 50 per cent, of those issued. I London issues 5,000,000 omnibus tickets and 2,000,000 tramway tickets daily, and provides no boxes. Many people, including those who drop packets and match boxes, shopkeepers who sweep sweepings into the road, and others, should remember that the ratepayers have to pay £2 8s 2d for every ton of litter dropped.