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Speaker 1: Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week which starts tomorrow. But on

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Speaker 1: Saturday our little free Ashberson hosting a community clean up,

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Speaker 1: caught up with Beev Skates, who's behind this group that's

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Speaker 1: been running for about eight years now and continues to grow.

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Speaker 1: There's twenty regulars involved now and they're the ones that

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Speaker 1: we see often in the flow of vests around the

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Speaker 1: likes of North Park and that stretch of State One

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Speaker 1: between the edge of Town Racecals Road and say Phaeton.

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Speaker 1: I asked along the way, have there been some rather adventurous,

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Speaker 1: dramatic fines that you've found when picking up the litter.

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Speaker 2: One that stands out would be a thorn off shotgun.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, real serious, real quick.

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Speaker 2: That was a real serious one.

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Speaker 1: Oh jeesh.

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Speaker 2: But we've got porterloo's, we've got animal carcasses, we've gone.

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Speaker 1: You picked up a portloo.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we have mattresses magazines when we first started, but

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Speaker 2: our main concern is to create more a when of

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Speaker 2: the importance of not being a tossa.

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Speaker 1: No one likes a tossa.

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Speaker 2: No one likes a tossa, and there are far too

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Speaker 2: many of them around.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, it's the one thing Wow, there's a few things

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Speaker 1: that grim Ig used to be fair actually find more

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Speaker 1: and more adding to the list as I seem to

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Speaker 1: get older. But this one in particular just really grates

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Speaker 1: me to the bone. You know somebody who thinks it's

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Speaker 1: okay to just toss a bit of rubbish out their

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Speaker 1: window or whatnot.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is what they do. You know. They buy

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Speaker 2: the takeaways and then they're driving up the highways, which

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Speaker 2: is where we work some of the time, and spend

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Speaker 2: all your time picking up a beer bottle, cans takeaway foods.

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Speaker 2: And what annoys us too is the you know, you

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Speaker 2: buy perps, a Leamington cake or a thing in a

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Speaker 2: little white bag, they'll eat it and toss the toss

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Speaker 2: the bag out the window.

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Speaker 1: That rubs me.

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Speaker 2: It is it's so annoying and there's no need for it.

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Speaker 2: Keep it in your car and be conscious of what

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Speaker 2: you do with your litter. Stop being tosses.

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Speaker 1: I still all your volunteers out there, but in a

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Speaker 1: way it also makes me sad because I think, oh,

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Speaker 1: there shouldn't really be any need for you. In all fairness,

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Speaker 1: that must be the ultimate goal is to make yourself redundant.

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Speaker 2: It would be wonderful today some more time, but in

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Speaker 2: saying that too, Look, while we're doing something for our

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Speaker 2: community and keeping it clean and tidy and litter free,

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Speaker 2: you're also getting exercise. You're out on the fresh air,

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Speaker 2: you can hear the birds singing, and it can be

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Speaker 2: an enjoyable time. And it's a great time for our

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Speaker 2: group to get together.

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Speaker 1: Sounds rather tranquil. If you'd like to join that great time.

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Speaker 1: The community cleanup is on this set today. Gather at

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Speaker 1: the West Street car park near the events trailer will

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Speaker 1: stick out. It's ten thirty gloves bags provided. Just come

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Speaker 1: along and be prepared for some good times and paying

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Speaker 1: it forward.