World Cleanup Day is a global day of action where millions of people come together to remove litter and waste from streets, parks, and natural spaces.

What young people, schools & community centres can do

• Organise local litter-picking walks

• “Adopt a street” or park clean-up projects

• Waste audits around school grounds

• Create posters on litter prevention

• Community clean-up competitions between year groups

Whole-school / organisational approaches

• Formal partnership with local council waste teams

• Risk-assessed ongoing litter-picking programme

• Install more visible recycling stations

• Introduce “no single-use litter” policies for events

• Embed citizenship/environment in curriculum planning

Social media ideas

• Group photos from clean-up events

• “Before and after” transformation shots

• Timelapse videos of community clean-ups
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  #WorldCleanupDay #LitterHeroes #CleanCommunities #PlasticFreeSpaces #BeyondAllyship