Birthday cleaning party
12 April, 2008 – 21:21When I read that I was really surprised. An American teenager from a little town called Marlboro decided that he had enough of the dirty streets around the place he lived. He loved his town and thought that it would look better and nicer if someone put some effort and cleaned the abandoned cans, empty boxes etc.
That guy decided that the authorities would not respond quick enough to his requests and organised a group of volunteers to spend an hour cleaning up the rubbish from the street. What a better occasion than his own birthday! He invited all his friends to the party but warned them to wear old clothes because they would get dirty. The local community backed the teenagers’ idea and now they have clean local streets. The event made all the drivers passing by think twice before throwing litter from their car windows. Everyone then enjoyed food and drinks at the birthday boy’s house.
If that could only happen in London! It would be a nice of the new Mayor to spend some congestion charge money to finance a similar event. I believe people would love to go out on a weekend and clean up their own local streets and pavements for an hour. Then enjoy a communal barbeque 
Sounds great! Why not then?