Pride clean up completed

Cityclean staff worked around the clock over the Pride weekend to keep the city and St James Street clean.

For Cityclean, Pride is the busiest weekend of the year and extra staff were employed by the council’s refuse, recycling and street cleaning team  to work over the weekend and additional rubbish bins were installed along the route of the procession.

A team of street cleaners followed the Carnival of Diversity Pride Parade to clear rubbish from the streets.

Other Cityclean staff worked in day and night shifts over the weekend, finishing at around 2am each morning.

A total of a 120 tonnes of rubbish was collected from the streets and litter bins, the most ever collected. It’s the equivalent of 12 dust-cart loads or one day of rubbish that the council collects across the entire city.

The clean-up finished with jet washing of streets and pavements.

Councillor Gill Mitchell, chair of the environment committee, said: “Our street cleaners do a tremendous job to keep the city clean during the busiest weekend of the year.

“We would urge everyone to support them by disposing of their litter responsibly – putting it in one of the litter or recycling bins; or by taking any rubbish home with them.”