Empowering and engaging communities through litter action
Keep Scotland Beautiful and Paws on Plastic
Booking for this event is restricted - please sign up for a My SCVO account or sign in to access the booking form if you are eligible
- Day
- Wednesday 5 February
- Time slot
- 13:30-14:30
- Room
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Carrick suite
Wheelchair accessible - Contact
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Heather McLaughlin
07935077495 - Topics
- Environment Volunteering Families and communities
- Overall aim
To provide delegates with an overview of the litter emergency across Scotland, to outline the support available and how to work with individuals and groups in communities to tackle this problem, and how working collaboratively this can benefit wider environmental issues and health and wellbeing
- Description
In collaboration with Paws on Plastic, Keep Scotland Beautiful will discuss the litter problem affecting communities and how to engage and empower communities to take action, with immediate effect, through simple actions like litter picking.
We are in a litter emergency. Over the past three years, a large majority of people in Scotland – around 9 in 10 – have consistently viewed litter as a problem across Scotland, with 7 in 10 people believing that litter is a problem locally.
At both Keep Scotland Beautiful and Paws on Plastic, we are continuing to find new ways to engage and inspire Scotland’s people and to work collaboratively to reverse the data trends and tackle the behaviours driving the litter crisis. But this is a problem that can also, if overcome, lead to important, positive impacts on efforts to improve welling and to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. In fact, the action to tackle litter in itself, through community led litter picks and activity, can also support improvement to community pride, cohesion and our mental and physical health and wellbeing.
This session will include outlining the current public perception and strategies active in Scotland. Then talking about key actions, projects and campaigns that volunteers and others in the room can also utilise. We will then share our learnings and best practice to help others increase voluntary engagement and wider benefits including keeping actions and asks simple, co-designing resources with those intended to use it, and being creative with communications.
- Who is the event aimed at?
Development / Education officers
- Who is speaking at this event?
- Heather McLaughlin – Campaigns and Social Innovation Manager, Keep Scotland Beautiful
Marion Montgomery – Founder and Chair, Paws on Plastic; Lead, Plastic Free Stonehaven
