Cleaner Greener Campaign
'100 Day' Count Down To Cleaner, Greener Charnwood
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The ‘100 Day Campaign’ has now come to end. The awareness raising campaign, which brought environmental issues to the top of the agenda, ran from 25 September and finished on 2 January, 2007.
Now the 100 Day campaign countdown is over it means Fixed Penalty Notices will be issued and the Street Warden scheme will be extended.
The campaign was based on three principles; to inform people what the Act involves how it affects them and their neighbourhoods; it assisted people in understanding and preparing for the Act to come into full use and finally; it enforced through Fixed Penalty Notices.
Did you know…?
- Failure to pay a Fixed Penalty Notice, the ‘On The Spot’ Fines, will result in prosecution.
- An estimated 122 tonnes of cigarette butts, matchsticks and cigarette related litter is dropped everyday across the UK.
- It takes 1 to 12 years for cigarette butts to biodegrade.
- It is estimated that removing gum costs between 45p and £1.50 per square metre.
- Chewing gum takes five years to biodegrade.
- 1.3m bits of litter are dropped on the UK's roads every weekend.
Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets are available to download so you can see how and when the Act will affect you:
Abandoned Vehicles: The Facts (PDF Document 475.47 Kb.)- Putting Out Your Rubbish: The Facts (PDF Document 468.14 Kb.)
- Dog Mess: The Facts (PDF Document 471.19 Kb.)
- Fly-tipping: The Facts (PDF Document 470.92 Kb.)
- Graffiti: The Facts (PDF Document 475.24 Kb.)
- Disposing of House Waste: The Facts (PDF Document 469.59 Kb.)
- Distributing Literature: The Facts (PDF Document 471.74 Kb.)
- Litter: The Facts (PDF Document 473.39 Kb.)
- Litter Clearance Notice: The Facts (PDF Document 466.87 Kb.)
- Nuisance Vehicles: The Facts (PDF Document 470.79 Kb.)
- Failure to Produce Waste Carrier's Authority (PDF Document 476.19 Kb.)
- Failure to Furnish Waste Carrier's Licence (PDF Document 474.42 Kb.)
Grot Spots - Before and After
Follow the link to find out what the Environment Team have been clearing in Charnwood... Did you know we worked so hard to make Charnwood a Cleaner, Greener place to live, work and play?
Do you know where any Grot Spots are? Then contact us and let us know.
Resources
Contact us for more information.
Why not follow the link to the ENCAMS Website to find out more about how the Act is affecting the whole of the UK? You can even download a selection of posters which aren’t just entertaining but are a bit of an education! (Please beware of certificated rating of some poster/publicity campaign materials).
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