Areas at Milton Keynes lake trashed by large gathering

This was the shocking scene that greeted visitors at Furzton Lake this mornnig after irresponsible users of the green space discarded a huge amount of litter.

It comes after The Parks Trust told how their rangers had collected more than 800 bags of rubbish from city parks in just a week.

In a statement, The Parks Trust said: "We are saddened and disappointed with the enormous amount of litter left at Furzton Lake yesterday after a large gathering took place there. We have never seen so much litter left in one area in the vast quantities we witnessed today. The time and money it will cost us to clear this will have a significant impact on The Trust.

 

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"We are a self-financing charity and each year, we spend £350,000 removing litter from across our parks, seeing increases like this drastically adds to the financial burden on the charity and at a time that we are already under financial strain due to the hit we have taken on our income because of the coronavirus pandemic.

"The actions of those that trashed areas of Furzton Lake yesterday have caused considerable financial implications as well as taking out our entire ranger team for most of today which impacts our other work and has meant that they couldn’t visit or carry out any other duties across the rest of our 6,000 acres of parkland."