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West Lothian pupils' dog poo map encourages owners to pick up after their pets

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AuthorStuart Sommerville
Published date20 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
Now their map has been reproduced by Ladywell Regeneration group and will form the basis of a new poster campaign in the area, encouraging dog owners to clean up after their pets

A litter clean-up took place earlier this year and that's when the P6 class at Harrysmuir Primary decided to start mapping the area for dog fouling. They quickly identified the worst areas around the school.

The mapping survey targeted 11 streets and paths around the school and found the worst affected areas were Ryebank, Harrysmuir Path and Loan Path.

Elaine Carder, Principal Teacher at Harrysmuir pointed out that the school regularly uses outdoors as an extra classroom for a variety of lessons.

She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "I have been working with two groups of P6 children on the John Muir Award. As part of the work we did towards the award we carried out litter picks. Whilst doing this we noticed a lot of dog dirt so decided to do a survey of the dog dirt we found. Each group went out and surveyed areas around our school and local area.

"We plotted the findings on a map produced by the Ladywell Regeneration Group. This map showed the location of the bins in the area. By using the same map we could work out whether the dog dirt may have been left because there were no bins nearby or whether it was because dog owners were just not picking it up.

"You can see from our map that there were two areas that a lot of dog dirt...

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