Residents spent days cleaning up a section of a Cardiff park after it became littered with sanitary towels and toilet wipes. The banks of the River Taff at Hailey Park, Llandaff North, and the trees that line it became visibly strewn with plastic, sanitary towels, toilet wipes and other waste in recent weeks as water levels subsided.
Groups like the Llandaff North Residents' Association, Friends of Hailey Park and YGC Rebel Mams joined residents in helping to clean the river bank over the weekend and on Monday, February 13. One of the Rebel Mams, Pam French, said: "It is absolutely filthy at the minute. It is probably as bad as it was during the really bad floods in 2020."
Welsh Water said there were a number of sources for the debris that could enter the river and get caught on trees during periods of heavy rain. When the river level drops, the level of debris becomes more apparent. However, Pam said she thought a lot of the mess, including the sanitary towels and wet wipes, had also entered the river as a result of sewage discharge.
