Over £50million a year is spent on cleaning the streets of Wales. We all have a responsibility for seeking to reduce litter and local campaigning can play a key role in developing a sense a pride amongst people in their local community.

Here you can create your own local campaign, read through our case studies or download posters. We have a wealth of information at your fingertips.

This ‘Guide to Local Campaigning’ provides advice and resources to enable local councils, community groups and businesses to tackle a range of environmental quality issues. It includes guidance on how to run local campaigns, case studies and a series of generic posters that can be adapted for use in your area.

Please feel free to adapt and use as you need, however, please ensure that you have the permission of the land owner before putting up a poster. The fixed penalty notice for flyposting is £75.

Create your own posters

Fed up of Graffiti in the Gower? or Flytipping in Flint? Download the following resources and you can create your own local campaign. Each PDF document allows you to adapt it to include the name of your street, school, town or district - ready for you to print off and use in your community.

Community Litterpicks
Community Skip Event
Dog Fouling
Fast Food Litter
Fly Tipping
Graffiti
Identity Fraud
Beach Litter
Litter is a pain
Red Elastic Band Challenge
Roadside Litter
Smoking Litter
Tidy Towns
Waste Amnesties

Case Studies

Here are a choice of case studies which will help get your local campaign up and running. They will provide you with useful information on how to prepare and publicise your campaign. It will also guide you on what your campaign should involve and give an example of a successful campaign.

Chewing Gum
Community Litterpicks
How to organise a clean up
Community Skip Event
Dog Fouling case study
Dog Fouling information leaflet
Graffiti
Identitiy Fraud
Red Elastic Band Challenge
Smoking Litter
'Running a Waste Amnesty' booklet

Downloadable Posters

Why not click and download a poster to display in your community?

Anti Dog Fouling Poster
Fast Food Litter
Youth Litter Poster
Take Pride... in your school
Take Pride... in your countryside
Take Pride... in your street
Take Pride... in your coast