Communities urged to ‘spring clean’
Over 4,000 volunteers took part in Tipp in 2021
National Spring Clean is operated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce in partnership with Local Authorities and supported by the Department of Environment, Communications and Climate Environment and Mars Wrigley Ireland.
Many clean-ups are taking place around Tipperary this Saturday, April 23, look out for signage on start times.
The initiative takes part in the month of April and for the past 23 years National Spring Clean has volunteered over 12 million hours of their time to remove 42,000 tonnes of litter across the country.
Community spirit is integral to the work that The National Spring Clean does and each year communities from all over the country come together to ensure their local areas are as clean possible for everyone to enjoy together.
This year the theme of community pride is at the forefront of the campaign with The National Spring Clean urging people of all ages to gather friends, family, classmates, neighbours or colleagues to unite in cleaning their shared green spaces together.
National Spring Clean 2021 was the biggest and the longest campaign so far, taking place between March and August, and despite the current situation and restrictions at the start of the year.
In county Tipperary, over 4,000 volunteers carried out over 250 clean-ups throughout the county in 2021. In 2022, over 110 groups and communities already registered to carry out a clean-up as part of the National Spring Clean, with some groups who have already been carrying out some clean-ups while waiting for the official launch of the campaign today. Among them, Mullinahone Village Tidy Towns organised a clean-up in March in the area removing a considerable amount of litter, including plastic and a lot of household waste.
This year, the campaign is on track to make 2022’s National Spring Clean campaign the biggest yet with the organisation already surpassing the number of registrations they had gained this time last year.
It is also an opportunity for volunteers to take local actions to make a change at a global scale as combined local actions can have a global effect on how we dispose and treat our waste. This has a substantial impact on the levels of emissions of several greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change.
For those who would like to organise a clean-up please log on to our website at www.nationalspringclean.org to request a free clean-up kit.
CLEAN-UP KITS
For those who would like to organise a clean-up please log on to our website at www.nationalspringclean.org to request a free clean-up kit.