There’s still time to join the Mail’s Great Plastic Pick Up
There is still time to sign up to the Mail’s Great Plastic Pick Up, which runs from tomorrow to Sunday.
Communities across the country are pitching in to help tackle the plastic menace. So far 11,776 people have signed up to take part, with 891 organised pick-ups.
To join in, go to greatplasticpickup.org and enter your details. Groups from one person to 100 can register, and children accompanied by an adult are welcome.
A Daily Mail team will judge photos sent in by the Pick Up groups and select three that will win a professional spring clean for their local area, worth £10,000.
WHERE DO I GET MY BAGS?
The first 3,000 events organised will be sent 30 recycled bags for collecting plastic, with an additional 450,000 Pick Up bags available for collection from local councils.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
Gather at the arranged time, check with the organiser and get picking! Plastic bottles and lids go in the blue bags, with caps and labels, metal cans are for the red bags, and anything else is for the white sacks.
WHAT SHOULD I NOT PICK UP?
Never touch syringes, broken glass or large fly-tipped items – instead, tell your council. Steer clear of busy roads.
HOW CAN I KEEP INFORMED?
Follow the #GreatPlasticPickUp hashtag on Twitter, check greatplasticpickup.org to see a map of Pick Ups across the country, and stay up to date in the Daily Mail.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Organisers should log the number of litter bags on greatplasticpickup.org.
WILL MY SCHOOL WIN A TRIP WITH CHRIS PACKHAM?
This is the prize for children and teachers in the top litter- picking school – an allexpenses-paid trip to a Sea Life Centre with TV host and wildlife expert Chris Packham to see some of the marine life you will have helped.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LITTER?
Plastic bottles will be recycled, as will aluminium cans, where possible. Other litter, including single-use plastic such as crisp packets, which cannot generally be recycled, will go into the residual waste stream. Many councils now use waste-to-energy rather than landfill for residual waste.