A CAMPAIGN aimed toward canine walkers who don’t scoop up poop is underway in Wyre Forest.
The district council has joined forces with environmental charity Maintain Britain Tidy to cut back canine fouling in key downside areas.
The ‘We’re watching you’ marketing campaign targets irresponsible canine house owners and analysis reveals that canine walkers are extra accountable and choose up after their canines, once they assume that they’re being watched.
Suggestions to the council means that canine fouling tends to happen at night-time and in the course of the months with shorter days, as a result of some canine house owners really feel that they will’t be seen below the duvet of darkness.
The ‘We’re watching you’ marketing campaign contains indicators that are seen after darkish.
Councillor John Thomas, Cupboard Member for Operational Companies stated: “Suggestions from members of the general public has advised us that canine fouling is a key difficulty in Wyre Forest, that they want to see tackled. We all know that the general public understand canine fouling to be by far essentially the most unacceptable and dirtiest sort of litter.
“The overwhelming majority of canine house owners are accountable folks, who all the time choose up after their canine and get rid of it appropriately.
“We’re thrilled to be working with environmental charity Maintain Britain Tidy on this marketing campaign.”
Not cleansing up after your canine is an offence and offenders danger a set penalty tremendous of £100 or prosecution in a magistrates’ courtroom, which may end up in a tremendous of as much as £1000.
