A storage company is helping to keep the streets of North East Wales tidy.
Lock Stock Self Storage provides the Wrexham Litter Pickers with a unit on its Wrexham Ruabon Road site to store their equipment.
The group, which is part of the national organisation Keep Wales Tidy (KWT), has 2,300 members on its Facebook page and more than 50 'litter champions' across the county borough.
They use the storage unit to keep litter pickers, hi-vis vests, rubbish bags, and hoops, essential for keeping bags open in breezy conditions, ready to be handed out to volunteers.
KWT project officer for Wrexham, Emma Watson, joined the organisation in April.
She said: "Wrexham Litter Pickers are one of our biggest groups in Wales and they’re all members of their own Facebook group.
"They do a fantastic job and are very active in posting pictures of their litter picking around the borough.
"We do have lots of different groups in Wrexham and 51 litter champions who we support with equipment to keep their own local patches tidy.
"They just apply to us and we supply them with the equipment which we store at our hub at Lock Stock’s site at Felin Puleston, on Ruabon Road.
"Our litter champions have one thing in common – they’re passionate about their community and want to make a difference, so we provide all the kit, support and insurance they need to safely clean up the environment on their doorstep."
Richard Warner, Lock Stock regional manager for North East and Mid Wales, said: "Keep Wales Tidy do a fantastic job in picking up litter and in raising awareness of the problems of littering.
"We often have issues around our sites and we do our best to keep them neat and tidy but it’s all about having respect for the place where you live and the number of volunteers they have speaks for itself.
"We’re always happy to support local organisations and Keep Wales Tidy have a unit here in Wrexham and one in Denbigh as well.
"They have 24/7 access so it’s ideal for them if they have litter picks they can just come on site, pick up their equipment and off they go."
Lock Stock, founded in Denbigh in 1999, is the 'UK’s largest containerised storage company.'
The company has 60 per cent of its units rented by people moving house or keeping treasured possessions, but 40 per cent, almost 2,000, are used by small businesses for storing materials.
They offer a choice of 10 and 20-foot units at their smaller sites, going up to 40-foot units at their larger sites.
These sites stretch from Holyhead and along the North Wales coast at Caernarfon, Bangor, Llandudno, Abergele and Rhyl, on the Dee at Flint, Saltney and Deeside and inland at Denbigh, Mold, Wrexham and Newtown in Powys, and at Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Craven Arms, in Shropshire, and Brimfield, in Herefordshire.
For information about Lock Stock Self Storage, including off-site container hire, contact them on 01745 817178 or go to https://lockstock.biz/.
For more on Keep Wales Tidy go to https://keepwalestidy.cymru/.
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