THE Warrington Litter Networks have enjoyed another record-breaking year, collecting over 11,000 bags of rubbish for the first time.
The total number of bags collected was 11,170.5. This is a 28% increase on the previous record of 8,660 (in 2024)
Cumulatively (since 2019) 44,853 bags of litter have been picked by all of the Warrington teams.
The volunteers have also recycled 402,613 aluminium beverage cans since 2023.
Working with Novelis PLC of Latchford, this has raised around £6700 for the Orford Veterans Hub charity.
The Volunteers were delighted to be awarded the King’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2025, it will be officially presented by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire at Warrington Town Hall in early 2026.
As Bob Towers (of Winwick Litter Network) put it: “We had superb support from our Mayor, Mo Hussain and as you know, with the Council’s support, we were awarded the King’s Award for Voluntary Service in November. We also continued our very successful charity can collection arrangement with Novelis in Latchford. In all we reckon over 400,000 cans have been recycled by our teams – outside of Council collected cans – in the past three years.
“We feel this makes Warrington very much a “stand out” town both in the North West and also the UK as a whole. In good part this is due to the Council’s strong levels of ongoing backing and encouragement, without which we could not follow through with our volunteering initiatives across the town”.
Co-ordinator Tony Dixon added:” All round, these figures are another superb achievement. We need to thank everybody who has volunteered in every team.
“As I see it, we are looking forward to another year of mindful litterpicking – and a progressively tidier Warrington. Look around you – it is happening. We will be participating in the Keep Britain Tidy “GB Spring Clean 2026” in March (and hope to overtake Bolton this year!). Pride is coming back. What we are doing says very good things about our town and our community.
“We greatly appreciate the support of Warrington Worldwide to maintain the public profile of what we are trying to do.”
Team (and landmark event) breakdown.
8,209 bags from Tuesday Litter Team
28 bags from Sunday LT
582 from Fairfield & Howley LT
170.5 from Orford LT
263 from CUMC Westbrook
544 from Winwick LN
491 from Poulton with Fearnhead LN
140 from Lymm LN
102 from Stockton Heath LN
75 from Croft LN
51 from TReco, Locking Stumps
127 from the First Mayoral pick
228 from Thomas Morgan pick
125 from Jill Dance’s 24 hour Litterbug pick.
(LT = Litter Team , LN = Litter Network , CUMC = Clean Up My Community , TReco = Thomas Risley Eco group)
