Campaign launched by the St Pauls community to tackle fly tipping in the local area

A group of local campaigners who have documented years of fly-tipping are now organizing a photography exhibition to document their findings. The admin team of the local Facebook group St Pauls Connected (Bristol) together with other local residents in a campaign to tackle the problem and work with others to find a long term solution.

After years of documenting and reporting constant fly tipping, they are taking their evidence to City Hall as part of the campaign launch. They have created an exhibition of photography and installations which will take place in the Vestibule, City Hall, during the week of the general election (July 1-5, 11-18).

Better Streets-St Pauls will be running a mapping exercise at the exhibition where residents will be invited to map the issues on each street in the borough. They invited Bristol Waste and Bristol City Council to attend and work with residents to find a solution.

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A spokesperson for the group said: “We are excited to invite everyone to come and be part of the solution, we need to work together to change processes, bin setups and attitudes. As residents of St Pauls, we wholeheartedly invite you to get involved in the exhibition and post-show campaign activities.

“We are inviting stakeholders from Bristol City Council, Bristol Waste Company, St Pauls Partners and St Pauls residents to attend our Better Streets-St Pauls exhibition. We are very aware that overflowing bins, uncollected waste and the epidemic of fly tipping on our pavements is a public health, environmental and community issue and there is a clear inequity in what we are dealing with.

“From there, we look street by street and dig deeper into the problem while working on a solution. We hope for a co-developed approach with accountability, transparency, equity and fairness built into its core.

“Until we reach our goal, we will campaign for a better, healthier and cleaner St Pauls. As for the watchers and doubters, there were many of you during the Save St Pauls Dentist Campaign. I proved you wrong.”

More information about the exhibition can be viewed on Eventbrite here and you can find regular updates about the campaign on the St Pauls Connected Facebook page Here .