Tag: Waste Services

Spring Clean Scotland 2025

We are thrilled to invite your school to participate in Spring Clean Scotland 2025, taking place from 21 March to 21 April 2025. This annual campaign, organized by Keep Scotland Beautiful, aims to unite over 50,000 volunteers across the country to tackle litter and enhance our beautiful environment.

Spring Clean Scotland 2025

Last year, over 100 litter picks were completed in the Falkirk Council area over the course of the campaign – can we smash that record this year???

Why Get Involved?

  • Educational Opportunities: Engage pupils in hands-on activities that teach the importance of environmental stewardship.
  • Community Impact: Contribute to a nationwide effort to keep Scotland clean and green.
  • Health and Wellbeing: Promote outdoor activity and community engagement among pupils.

Special Initiatives for Schools:

  • KSB Litter League 2025: From 17 March to 21 April, schools, nurseries, and youth groups can participate in a friendly competition to see who can collect the most litter. Winners will be recognized as #SpringCleanScotland champions!

Spring Clean Litter League

  • KSB Spring Clean Week Live Lessons: Scheduled from 17 to 21 March, these lessons focus on unique types of waste and emphasise the principles of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. They are designed to align with various curriculum areas and include follow-up resources.

Spring Clean Live Lessons

  • Lessons from Falkirk Council Waste Services: Throughout the campaign and beyond, lessons/assemblies surrounding impacts of litter can be arranged for all age groups by emailing ross.guthrie@falkirk.gov.uk.

How to Get Involved

  • Plan Your Event – Organize a litter pick within your school grounds or local community.
  • Borrow Equipment – Falkirk Council Waste Services can provide litter pickers, hoops, bags, and hi-vis vests. Simply let us know when registering your litter pick and we’ll do our best to accommodate your needs.
  • Register Your Litter Pick with Falkirk Council – When you register your litter pick with Waste Services through the link below, we’ll sign you up as a participant in Spring Clean 2025:

Rubbish and litter: Organising a local clean up – Falkirk Council

By working together, we can inspire the next generation to care for and protect our environment. We hope your school will be part of Spring Clean Scotland 2025 and help make it the most impactful yet!

For any questions, please reply to this e-mail or contact waste.services@falkirk.gov.uk

Let’s work together to keep Scotland beautiful!

LitterLotto and LitterLotto Leagues – update

Young people from Falkirk High School have made very successful use of the LitterLotto app launched last November by Falkirk Council waste services. They are participating very effectively in the inter-schools competition enabled by this app (read more about the competition here).

A group of pupils binned so much litter that they won the autumn term prize for Falkirk HS – earning £200. Individually, Susie Hoggan and Ross Hamilton each won £20 for binning the most litter over these two months. Logan Marshall was even more successful – winning £100 in the Falkirk competition prize draw, AND £1000 in the UK draw. 

LitterLotto is not only for school pupils, the app is available to all members of the public – click here to find out more.

 

LitterLotto League Launched by Falkirk Waste Services!

 

In May this year, Falkirk Council formed an exciting new partnership with LitterLotto (Peasy), giving individuals the opportunity to win cash prizes whilst keeping our community clean.  To complement this, we will be launching a secondary school litter league from November 2024.

The concept of this partnership revolves around incentivising the binning of litter on school grounds, and beyond, to promote a behavioural change and help keep our local communities clean and tidy.  The litter league will enable Falkirk Council secondary schools to compete against each other to bin the most litter in order to win prizes for pupils and the schools themselves!  Pupils can download the LitterLotto app on a smartphone, which will be linked to the school, and using the app’s camera function they can begin to photograph themselves binning litter and raise their school up the league standings.

Every month, the pupil who has binned the most litter in each secondary school will receive a £20 Scotland Loves Local gift card. Additionally, the top performing school at the end of each term will receive £200!

To ensure that the size of the school does not provide major advantages or disadvantages in relation to the term and overall prizes, we will be calculating this based on the number of entries/school roll.

To launch LitterLotto, Ross Guthrie, Falkirk Council Waste Services Education officer hopes to visit schools in November to explain how this initiative works to young people.

If you have any enquiries, please contact wasteservices@falkirk.gov.uk