Our How-To Guides give detailed explanations of how you can organise your own events. With checklists, step-by-step examples, and posters for you to advertise, you’ll find everything you need to get your community cleaning up your local area.
What
Gather your community together to collect litter along your local streets and parks.
Why
Litter can gather and accumulate across our towns, cities and countrysides. Wildlife can become trapped, entangled and even consume the litter. It makes our community places look messy and can find its way into the seas and even our food chains. Taking action to maintain a litter-free community is a significant step towards protecting our planet from pollution.
Hi, I am trying to organise some tutor litterpicking schemes at school as there’s always a lot of rubbish after lunchtime with eco council at my school. But we are not sure what to do with the items that could be recycled as our school don’t really have any proper recycling bins. Is there any tips?
Great to hear that you are putting effort into organsing this at your school! You can find out how your local council collects recycling by checking out their website. Then you should separate out the materials whilst you are collecting the litter into different bags (normally glass, plastics and cans). You will then need to take the recycling materials to a community recycling bin or centre - maybe you could ask a teacher or parent to help deliver it to the correct place?
I’ve used this resources to help when organising a tutor litter pick scheme with my school’s eco council, we’ve done assemblies with each tutor groups to launch this litter pick scheme, every tutor have an assigned day once in a term to litter pick on the last 15 minutes of lunchtime and it’s been going very well so far. A suggestion to anyone who are organising litter pick is to use biodegradable bin bags or those made from recyled plastic to make the litter picking even more eco-friendly! Me and my friends also went litter picking on the weekend, and it’s really nice to contribute to our community. Another thing is you might want to also bring gloves even if you’re using litter pickers, as the person holding the bin bag might accidentally touch the rubbish, so it might be more hygienic if use gloves when doing the litter pick. An extra bag is also handy to put the litter picker inside afterwards as they could be quite dirty.
