Rutland residents have been encouraged to join in with the Great British Spring Clean 2023.

Back for its eighth year, the Great British Spring Clean is the nation's biggest mass-action environmental campaign.

The Great British Spring Clean and Great Big School Clean 2023 will take place from 17 March to 2 April, and you can pledge to pick up a bag of litter – or more – now!  

Rutland County Council are in support of the project and encouraging residents and Parishes, as well as schools and businesses, to get involved.

You can choose to pledge as an individual, a group or a school by visiting the Keep Britain Tidy website, and Rutland County Council will support those that join by providing litter picking equipment and collecting all of the litter that has been collected.

Last year, an army of amazing #LitterHeroes pledged to pick nearly half a million bags of litter across the country, and Keep Britain Tidy are hoping that together local communities can continue the amazing work and clean up the local places and spaces loved by so many.

This year the campaign will be focusing on the pride that any and all #LitterHeroes have for their local community.

Litter collected in Oakham. Image credit: Nub News.

Rutland County Council's Cabinet Member for Environment, Cllr Rosemary Powell, said: "We are extremely lucky to have so many beautiful spaces in Rutland and everyone deserves a community that they can be proud of. Litter picking is a simple action that anyone can do that makes an immediate difference to an area, so we are hoping that many people in Rutland get involved in the Great British Spring Clean.

"Please contact our Environmental Team and they can help provide you with the litter picking equipment on a first come, first serve basis and will organise to collect and dispose of the litter that you have picked."

To take part please email [email protected] today and don't forget to pledge to pick up a bag or find more information online.

Alternatively, read more about the recurring issue of litter being left at Oakham's Cutts Close.

Do you know of any litter hotspots in the local area?

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