Stop The Drop Campaign

CPRE’s Stop the Drop campaign tackles the litter and fly-tipping problem that is despoiling our beautiful countryside. It’s headed by CPRE president and author Bill Bryson, a passionate anti-litter campaigner and champion of the countryside.

At a local level, supporters of the campaign can get involved by organising their own litter pick or joining a local litter volunteer group through litteraction.org.uk. Supporters can pledge to Stop the Drop, joining CPRE in lobbying local authorities, government and other bodies legally responsible for keeping land litter-free. Through these various campaigning actions CPRE aim to demonstrate to Government and other authorities the strength of support behind Stop the Drop.

The Need to involve children

At litteraction.org.uk we think it’s very important that we focus strongly on showing young people why a world without litter is a better world.

So, we ask you all to help to educate young people and involve them in what you do.

There are two main ways that you can help achieve this:

Involve young people in your organised litter picks.
Work with your local school(s) to educate young people about litter.

Suggestions for making litter picking fun

Here are some ideas for making litter picks fun and how to involve more young people in them:

Make the pick a competition (with prizes, of course!). Ideas include:

How many sacks can you fill?
How many bottles/cans/crisp packets etc can you collect?
What’s the weirdest thing you can find?
What can you find that will take longest to biodegrade?
Make a sculpture/collage out of what you collect to illustrate the problem of litter

Encourage whole families to come out and join you.
Promote a grandparents’ and grandchildren event (to give Mum and Dad some time off).
Look out for young people passing by. They are often curious about what you’re doing and will sometimes join in if you ask them.
Have a creative litter pick - make art out of the litter you find.

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