DORSET CPRE
Stop the Drop
Stop the Drop aims to solve litter and fly-tipping problems blighting our countryside, cities, towns and villages.
The following is an update on the national Stop the Drop campaign extracted from CPRE’s quarterly Fieldwork magazine.
Stop the Drop aims to solve litter and fly-
The following is an update on the national Stop the Drop campaign extracted from CPRE’s quarterly Fieldwork magazine.
“Since Bill Bryson launced CPRE’s Stop the Drop campaign in April 2008, we have been raising awareness about litter and fly-tipping and encouraging action by the Government, by local authorities and by individuals. Our Stop the Drop parish council toolkit was sent out by our Head Office in November 2008 to all parish councils who are members of CPRE. It is also available on the CPRE National Office website: go to www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns and click on ‘Stop the Drop’. It gives you facts and figures, ideas and tips, and all the resources you need to bring Stop the Drop to your parish.“ Copies are also available from the Dorset Branch office.
We hope your parish council will be able to support our campaign in some way, by:
We hope your parish council will be able to support our campaign in some way, by:
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Organising community litter picks
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Ensuring you have litter bins in all the right places
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Possibly even issuing fines to people caught littering
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If you don’t already, alert you local authority to fly-
Useful links
More fines should be imposed and rewards offered to tackle litter louts, a report has suggested.
County is used as a dumping ground. Enough furniture to fill the room of a house has been found dumped in Weymouth, Portland and the West Dorset countryside. Read more on this article published by Dorset Echo on 23rd March 2009.
