A new
city wide litter campaign, ‘Clean Up Edinburgh’, will be launched on 28
October.
The campaign starts with a day of action on 29 November, bringing together communities, businesses and
individuals across Edinburgh for clean-up events across the city.
Why do we need the campaign?
A Keep
Scotland Beautiful survey showed that more
than half of the Scottish population has dropped litter, and almost half do it
regularly. This is a problem for all of us, caused by most of us. That is why
Keep Scotland Beautiful has launched the Clean Up Scotland campaign to tackle these issues nationwide, and we are proud to
be supporting this.
Edinburgh
is a beautiful, vibrant city but litter can be a blight on our landscape.
Litter can have a huge impact on quality of life, our environment and costs us
millions to clean up. We want to encourage staff, residents, schools,
communities, business and visitors, to all play a part and pledge to tack
action on litter and be proud of the city we live in.
In a nationwide
poll by Zero Waste Scotland, 44% of the Scottish population believes
that a major education and awareness drive is the best way to tackle our litter
problem, with only 10% opting for investing more in clearing it up. We
therefore hope this year long programme of engagement and awareness raising activity
can help us to start changing people’s attitudes towards littering.
How can you get involved?
We have a number of ways that you and your
community can get involved from small individual actions to holding your own
community clean up. Find out more below:
Join
a clean-up
Join one of our
clean-ups on 29 November, happening across the city. You can find out where and
when these will be held by visiting www.edinburgh.gov.uk/litter
Or why not encourage
your community to organise their own clean-up? We can provide advice on
locations, health and safety and promotion. We can also provide some equipment
if necessary. Let us know if you do have any events planned and we can help
promote it.
