As of: March 25, 2024, 4:00 p.m
By: Birgit Lang
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Soaking wet but in a good mood: the many volunteers at the Clean Landscape Campaign in Taufkirchen.
© Birgit Lang
The participants in the Clean Landscape campaign in Taufkirchen start in the sun and then get soaked in the rain.
The volunteers can hardly believe what they discover.
Taufkirchen
- When the weather was nice, around 50 adults and children met in front of the old town hall on Saturday morning for the clean landscape campaign of the local history and beautification association.
In a good mood, everyone set out to clean the place of rubbish all the way to the forest bath.
But ten minutes later it started to pour and it rained.
Giving up was not an option for the volunteers.
However, many of them were not dressed appropriately; most of them only wore comfortable casual shoes, not rubber boots.
By the time they all got back to the construction yard with full garbage bags, they were soaking wet and cold.
So it wasn't just the children who were happy to receive warm tea and, as always, sausages or meat loaf for a snack in the building staff's heated living room.
In addition to the usual small waste, some helpers even found a wild dump in the Steckerlwald, at the exit of the town next to the B388.
Günther Ziegler and his companions could hardly believe their eyes when they found blue garbage bags, some of which had already rotted.
When they tried to rescue them, they were greeted by a beastly stench that was “sickening,” as Ziegler describes it.
The second chairman of the HVV also finds it sickening that this small forest seems to be predestined for such deposits.
“By the time you can transport something like that down and hide it, it has long since been thrown in the trash or at the building yard,” he says.
In addition to the blue bags, core drilling parts and concrete sign fasteners were also disposed of here.
Everyone had a lot to tell.
So Monika Lohse discovered a “treasure”, a small, red, digital Canon camera.
“I mainly had rubbish with me, lots of cigarettes, also Tempos and cigarette paper, bottles and the lids of plastic cups,” says her ten-year-old daughter Nina.
The two found a lot of rubbish at the bus station behind the savings bank.
Larger items included a bicycle and a discarded garden chair.
Two young boys found an old cell phone and a revolver, but the latter was a toy.