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Borrow Equipment and Pick Litter in Coventry
If you are a local to Coventry you can now borrow litter-picking equipment for free from Broad Street Hall which is now a Cleanup Hub! See details below. And if you have filled large bags with litter and want it … Continue reading →
How to run a litter pick
You can download the following information here: How to run a litter pick Before an Event Install FixMyStreet App This is available on Android and Apple phones. It will enable you to report the location of the rubbish bags you … Continue reading →
Litter Pick Risk Assessment – Sample
Litter picking has certain risks you may not have thought of: abandoned hypodermic needles, falling into water, dogs, one of the party getting lost or injured and perhaps taken to hospital. You need to be as prepared as you can … Continue reading →
Litter Pick Volunteer Briefing – Sample
The organiser of a litter pick needs to ensure they cover themselves against any claim of negligence. This is achieved by writing a risk assessment before the event and briefing the volunteers on the day of the event. A sample … Continue reading →
Litter Picking during COVID-19
Keep Britain Tidy has the following recommendations for anyone taking part in a litter pick during 2020. Litter-picking alone or in pairs Before going out alone or in pairs, please remember: Individuals currently shielding, in ‘at risk’ groups, displaying symptoms … Continue reading →
Cov Clean Streets
In February 2021, Cov Clean Streets team started work to help clean up litter and clean pavements and gullies across the city. It’s part of a £2.1 million spring clean ahead of the City of Culture. They will be working … Continue reading →
Coventry Litter Action
In the past, Trevor Teale used to organise monthly litter picking events in Coventry and advertise them and other useful information on a Facebook group. Unfortunately this no longer exists. You can now find your local group (or creating your … Continue reading →
Equipment for Litter Picks
Sophie Williams is collecting money to buy litter-picking equipment for lending out in Coventry. To donate, please visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hearsall-litterbusters
Continue reading →Is Litter Picking Worth the Effort?
Some activists argue that such volunteer clean-ups are not the best way to tackle the plastic pollution that is choking rivers, destroying once-beautiful beaches and costing the lives of whales, seabirds and other wildlife. Critics argue that public cleanups do not … Continue reading →
Now Or Never
Clean Up Britain is a national UK organisation specialising in changing anti-social environmental behaviours – especially littering and fly-tipping. In 2018 they launched their ‘Now or Never’ campaign in Leamington. They say this is “the most comprehensive and multi-faceted anti-litter … Continue reading →
Plastic Free Coventry
Plastic Free Coventry was a community project facilitated by the charity Surfers Against Sewage. As far as we can tell this project has finished. The following was part of their message: Did you know that every day approximately 8 million … Continue reading →
Solihull Council Promotes Education for Sustainable Development
Solihull Council’s Grid for Learning (Solgrid) offers a wide range of services and information to empower schools to develop sustainability from whatever starting point they are at. A schools’ sustainability engagement officer based in the sustainable development team works with schools. The Solihull … Continue reading →
WASUP
World Against Single Use Plastics (WASUP) is the brainchild of Professor Abdul Rasheed Gatrad, Professor in Paediatrics at the Universities of Kentucky, USA, and Wolverhampton, UK. Originally called Walsall Against Single Use Plastics at its launch last year it has … Continue reading →