Will YOU join the army signing up for our Great Plastic Pick Up?
ON SATURDAY, we launched our crucial Great Plastic Pick Up campaign — to clean up Britain’s beauty spots, beaches, streets and parks and step up our vital battle against the scourge of plastic.
Already hundreds of wonderful Daily Mail readers have signed up to join in, and so far more than 60 pick ups have been set up across the country for the litter-picking weekend in May.
Wherever you live, you too can join the clean-up — backed by Prime Minister Theresa May and Sir David Attenborough — by sparing just a few hours to pick up plastic bottles, cans and general litter on Friday, May 11; Saturday, May 12; and Sunday, May 13.
For the first 3,000 people or schools who sign up, the Mail is sending a special pack of recyclable litter bags to get you started.
We will also send professional cleaners to where the three best litter-picking teams live and help transform their local areas with a proper spring clean.
Plus, there’s a prize for the top litter-picking school.
The Great Plastic Pick Up comes a decade after the Mail launched a trail-blazing campaign to end the scourge of plastic bags, which clog our oceans, litter the countryside and kill seabirds and wildlife.
Reader William Cawley, 62, a supermarket checkout operator and councillor, said he is organising a pick up in Leek, Staffs. He said: ‘I work in a supermarket and am aware of the excessive use of plastic. I think of the damage that discarded plastic can do to animals. The Mail is to be commended.’
Bradley Roissetter, 24, said he had been wanting to take part in a litter clean-up for a while, but had felt ‘silly doing it by myself’. Now, he is hoping to find a dozen people to clean up the beaches in Saltash, Cornwall. ‘You’ve given me the inspiration to do this,’ he said.
Nicky Grainger, 57, a retiree from Oxfordshire who has registered to help on a pick up, said: ‘I walk my dogs along the Thames from Abingdon — you would not believe the amount of debris littering the waterline. I went for a walk on Saturday, despaired yet again and then came home to read my newspaper and there was help!’