This morning along with my ward colleague Councillor Fraser Macpherson I took part in a Litter Pick which started on Dundee University campus then went along the Perth Road and finally down Seabraes and along to the Marketgait. This litter pick was in association with the Bonnie Dundee group who are mostly volunteers who work hard every year to help Dundee enter the Bonnie Scotland events. It was good to see a company like Scottish and Southern Energy 'volunteer' a couple of workers to help as well. The event was also part of
Dundee's Festival of Volunteering. It is important to pay tribute to the work of
volunteers, they really do make a difference to our society. They save the public purse a fortune and sometimes I feel this is not acknowledged enough. Politicians should be looking for ways to make it easy for people to volunteer and we should be supporting the work of the many many organisations across the city which rely on volunteers.
In terms of the litter pick it was a lovely day to be out in the West End but it really did beg the questions -why don't smokers put their cigarette butts in the bin?
