Load of rubbish!

If you've ever had a good browse through our web sites then you may well have come across the page titled Environmental Impact. Its more than just a page on the web site, and since we created it, it has slowly become part of the way we do things. Not just once in a while, but every day.

Part of our commitment is to carry out a litterpick along the old village road. Today, in the first bit of rain we've seen for ages (it had stopped by the time we'd finished!) we teamed up with Tomasz from the Glencoe Youth Hostel (SYHA) and Keith from the Glencoe Independent Hostel and did just that.

We covered the road verges from the junction with the A82 at the new bridge right the way down to the Green Pool at the Forestry car park, just this side of Glencoe village and included the popular picnic spots on the river banks too. Glencoe Community Council recently carried out a litterpick in the vicinity of the village, and we know that the Glencoe NTS staff are keen to try and do something similar along the A82 in the glen, though its reported as being thwarted by the old 'health & safety gone mad' problems. (Did anyone see Panorama on the BBC this week!?) Here's hoping that Glencoe is looking clean and litter free in time for the summer onslaught (and here's hoping that it stays that way!)

The Highland Council helped us out with some signage, gloves and bags, and a huge skip which we thankfully struggled to make even the smallest impact in. Thanks. We know you can't do it all yourselves but its nice to get your support when we take on something like this ourselves.

And in this final paragraph we'd hoped to amuse you with tales of the weird and wonderful bits of refuse that we collected along the way. But apart from some poo in a cup (good aim?), someone's clothes and a tow bar, it was mostly just the usual empty beer cans, large numbers of coke and Irn Bru bottles (no, we don't sell them) and the odd wheel trim off a car.