After noticing dirty street signs littered all over Wolverhampton, local business owner Owen James has been selflessly spending his free time cleaning them up.
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00:00My name's Owen. I'm 21. I'm a window cleaner. I live in Wolverhampton.
00:04I started cleaning the signs in Wolverhampton and surrounding areas
00:08mainly because they're dirty and you can't see actually where you're going and the main reason I started it
00:13I was in the traffic line waiting for the traffic lights to change and I noticed a sign where you couldn't see it
00:19so obviously I pulled up, cleaned it, put it on Facebook and it blew up on Facebook and
00:25reason, another reason why we do it, we do commercial residential window cleaning in Wolverhampton and
00:31obviously the customers have helped us build a business so it's a way of giving back to the community as well.
00:36The way I clean the signs in Wolverhampton and surrounding areas is
00:40I'll pull up to one, put my hazards on, on the van, get some signs out, fail for safety, make sure no one's in the way,
00:46get my power led and then start cleaning them and then once done move on to the next one and then if there's none that
00:52I see on that day, there's always one on the next day because there's loads in Wolverhampton that need cleaning to be fair.
00:58When I do clean the signs I get a lot of reactions as you can probably imagine.
01:03People wind down the windows say, oh good lad, go on, council, don't do it, fair play.
01:09I also get horns beeping at me and then obviously I put a photo on Facebook lately with a video and that hit
01:16500 likes within two hours really. It's off of a night and that was on WB11 Asthma page
01:22and then another page called the Village Alliance that hit 330 likes within a couple of hours it was
01:28and that's the main reason we do it, to be fair, it keeps the community clean.
01:32I'm happy doing my bit for the community to keep the place clean
01:36but really it should be down to the councils, local councils, to keep the signs clean and
01:41obviously where there's litter by the signs to also pick it up as we also do do litter picking by the signs.
01:47That should be done by Wolverhampton City Council.
01:49But we don't mind doing it, it keeps the place clean, that's the main thing.