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CleanupUK
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Keeping Communities Sustainably Clean
The problem of litter in the UK shows little sign of abatement, as indicated by the Local Environmental Quality Survey for England (LEQSE) commissioned by DEFRA. Recent high-profile press comment by Jeremy Paxman and Bill Bryson (President-CPRE) simply underline the need for an alternative approach.
Current anti-litter policy consists of Environmental Campaigns (ENCAMS, the mainly government-funded organisation that runs the `Keep Britain Tidy` campaign) and its devolved counterparts running campaigns aimed at the public, but does not include consistent encouragement of volunteer activity. Local councils clean the streets as far as budgets allow and enforce the system of fines for littering and fly-tipping.
These activities are vital but are no longer sufficient, not least because local authorities cannot, within their budgets, clean often or widely enough to maintain consistently litter-free environments.
CleanupUK will for the first time unite the estimated 3,000 volunteer litter collecting groups around the UK into an active movement and, by promoting a sense of fun, community and purpose significantly increase the number of volunteers and educate the young by involving them in litter picking and by giving talks in schools.
Restore UK has provided funding to help create a website which will provide the central forum for volunteer groups, via their own web page, to promote their own activities.
We don't protect birds because without us they'd be dead. We protect birds because without them we might as well be.
Simon Barnes, Birds magazine
